Hi everyone. Hope you can help me. Thanks drmsucks for suggesting I START a new thread for this.

First, my setup (New):
SAPPHIRE motherboard
Phoenix AwardBIOS v.6.00PG
AMD Athlon64 3000+
1GB RAM
250GB HDD (about 10% used)
Running WindowsXP SP2

The problem:

On startup, begins normally, then produces an error screen:

'We apologize for the inconvenience, but Windows did not start successfully. A recent hardware or software change may have caused this.' Etc. I've occasionally seen this screen before. It carries on describing options, and the list that offers Safe Mode.


After the countdown, the computer gets to the Windows XP flag, gets so far, and then the monitor (INTEX LCD) goes back to the 'No signal' message and the computer tries to startup again. It always gets to the XP flag, and then starts over. It never gets to the Welcome screen or DESKTOP.

Moreover when i tried to install XP-OS again it SHOWS a message "aproblem has been detected & windows has been shut down etc. It shows technical information
***STOP: 0x0000008E(0x0000005,0X80818816,0xF70A2928,0x00000000)

PLEASE help

Did you do anything before this?
Any new hardware changes?
DOWNLOADS, installs, ect...