Random Boot Loops/slow loading with XP

Hey,
I have a problem with my windows xp. After the loading screen it will do one of these things:

Wait for about 90 seconds with black screen then reboot.
Wait 90 seconds with black screen, then windows starts normal.
Reboot right away.

I have:

MSI Kt4v-L motherboard
ATI Radeon 9600xt
Lite-ON CDRW
MX310 mouse
1 WD 40 gig
1 Maxtor 80 gig
Audigy Gamer
512mb RAM
Athlon 2000+ XP

This thing has like 50f idle temp so i doubt it overheats and runs fine in games etc.

 

have you recently added, changed, or taken out any hardware? installed or uninstalled any programs? deleted any possibly crucial files?

 

i have added a new hard drive and changed from a radeon 9600se to 9600xt. otherwise nope..

 

well, those are some very important things, sounds like a problem with the drivers for the video card or the hard drive

 

Have you reinstalled your ATI drivers since installing the 9600xt? If not, try that.

 

yes i am at the current version

 

could be that it finds the new hard drive and dosent recognise it

 

i realized that the cd-rom light stays lit through like 3/4 of the time it does this.. if i take a cd out it just stays blank. after the lgiht goes out the hdd light stays lit.

 

A wise man once said...

 

it boots safe mode normally it looks like. no long wait

 

Go to msconfig.

Start, run, msconfig.

Click OK.

Disable everything. Under services, leave System Restore and Plug and Play services running.

Reboot back to normal mode and test.

If it works, narrow it down.

 

nope didnt work is there a way in xp to log booting to a file to read what its loading that takes so long? ---- in the event viewer in computer management, theres a string of errors that say either:

The device, \Device\Harddisk0\D, has a bad block.

-or-

DCOM got error "The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it. " attempting to start the service netman with arguments "" in order to run the server:
{BA126AE5-2166-11D1-B1D0-00805FC1270E}

 

You posted that its rebooting
Can you right click My Computer, properties, advanced, start up and recovery, and uncheck the box automatically restart and apply
This should present you with a blue screen with some information on the error rather than restarting

Did you disable everything under the start-up tab in msconfig as well as all third party services

If you are getting bad blocks on the hard drive have you tried the manufacturors diagnostic software