winxp restarts when loading

[erwin1978]

I've had winXP freeze at least once a day ever since I installed it. I also have Hercules Fortissimo2 soundcard which has very buggy drivers and I figured it might have something to do with my OS freezing. I removed the card and am now using the on-board AC97 sound chip so I can eliminate this soundcard problem.

About a couple of days ago, whenever I logon to winXP from a complete power off, instead of it loading to desktop, the system does a cold boot. It's like my PC lost complete power and restarted. The second time around, everything loads fine.

[Mr.Tweak]

Sounds like a driver issue to me.

[Albinus]

Definately a STOP error occurring..... equivalent of a BSOD under Win9x/ME :(

Seems like a driver problem, set your system to not automatically reboot when it has a stop error - might tell you which driver is at fault ;)

[erwin1978]

and how would I do that?

How come on the second load, everything loads fine?

When did winXP debut? I feel like SP1 should be out already. This OS is horrible. Yuck!

[erwin1978]

Ok, I got the blue screen and it says something about sysaudio.sys what does that mean?

[Wiggo]

Looks like the problem is with the sound drivers so dump the sound and remove the drivers then reload them and see if there are any updated drivers for it. :smokin:
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[Albinus]

Definately sound drivers - check for an updated version that is certified with Windows XP :)