I got my new motherboard yesterday and I installed it and everything went smoothly until it started loading windows after I reformatted it. It freezes when the little bar is moving back and forth on the loading screen and when I have my IDE drive installed it freezes almost instantly and when I have my SATA drive installed, the bar goes back and forth a couple of times and then it freezes. My motherboard detects everything just fine and I can access the BIOS and everything but it just freezes when it gets to the windows loading screen and when it freezes, all the lights on the keyboard go off. It has some LED's that are SUPPOSED to be like a debugging thing and I they don't report any problems.



Specs:

MSI K9N2 SLI Platinum 750a

AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ 2.6Ghz

ECS Geforce 9600GT

2GB DDR2 800

320GB Sata

Windows XP Sp2, real copy


Thanks for taking the time to read this and help me.

1) Just have the keyboard, mouse and monitor connected.

2) Remove and re-seat RAM - if more than one module, try booting with just one module at a time - check your mb manual to see if the RAM needs to be in a certain slot.

3) Remove and re-seat the video card.

4) Remove and re-seat the CPU.

Do one thing at a time - try to boot after each step.

Best of luck.Ok, I tried all of that and it still does the same thing, but when I try to load in safe mode it freezes at multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\windows\system32\drivers\mup.sysTake a look here: http://www.aitechsolutions.net/mupdotsysXPhang.html

Since it's a new install, I WOULD re-install Windows - maybe a file got corrupted during the original install.

What size and make psu do you have?Yeah, the first thing I did was reformat the hard drive as soon as I had everything put together. I have an Apevia 500W Power supply.I just disabled the Internal USB controller in the BIOs and its working now, I hope I fixed it, I will  keep you updated.Great - you MAY want to check for a BIOS update.Maybe you should have [pressed the f6 key on the re-load the o/s]