I've seen reports of this being connected with failing fans, but it's a
complex thing search the knowledgebase for the exact error you are seeing,
but check all your fans first, that is a quick, easy and cheap thing to do
and the age of that machine indicates that to be the proper thing to do
anyway?
Tony. . .
"Tony" <Tony[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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[Quoted Text] > I've been running XP64 since November of 2005. Every once in a while, my
PC
> would hang during boot. The splash screen would appear and after my
graphics
> card fan slowed down, the blue loading bar would freeze with the HD light
on.
> If I left it like this it would eventually throw a Disk Boot error.
Normally,
> I would just restart and everything would be fine.
>
> Yesterday before I left for work I decided to shut the machine down
because
> of some recent small power outages we've been experiencing in the area.
When
> I came home I tried to fire the machine up and it hung, I then was able to
> enter safe mode and asked the PC to run a scandisk on the next boot. When
I
> rebooted it hung again. So I tried to re-enter safe mode and now the
machine
> locks up at acpitabl.dat.
>
> I have a recovery disc but I was afraid of using the F2 auto recovery for
> fear of loosing all of my data. I entered the recovery console and
disabled
> my virus protection and anything else not related to Windows without any
> luck.
>
> Any help would be appreciated...
>
> System Specs:
> AMD Ahtlon-64 X2 3800+ (Socket 939)
> 2GB Corsair XMS (2 X 1GB) Dual Channel RAM
> eVGA nForce-4 SLI Mobo
> eVGA Nvidia Geforce 7900GT OC (500/1500) Driver 84.56
> 250GB Hard Drive [S-ATA] Maxtor 7200rpm
> PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750W Quad
> Windows XP Professional X64
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