Sounds like you've done a good job of identifying the problem driver. You
can try a system restore to a point before you installed this driver. Or,
given that this is a new system, I'd be sorely tempted to just start over
again. It's a pain, but may be the simplest if uninstalling the driver
doesn't work. I'd also let Asus know there's a problem with the driver,
though I'm not confident that they'll do much.
--
Charlie.
http://msmvps.com/blogs/xperts64
"McGergs" <McGergs[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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[Quoted Text] > Hello,
>
> I just installed Windows XP x64 Professional on my Asus L1N64-SLI WS
> motherboard with one AMD Athlon 64 FX 74 processor. Everything loaded up
> great. I loaded the Asus RAID drivers using floppy disks I made from the
> install disks. Once I got to my desktop I installed the rest of the
> drivers
> on the install disk and now when I reboot, it does not load my start bar
> or
> my desktop icons. I only can hit cctrl+alt+delete to get my task manager.
> It
> shows that everything seems to be hunky dorey. It does not go past that
> point. Just sits there.
>
> I finally gave up and reloaded the whole system. Before this I downloaded
> and updated to the latest BOIS. I isntalled service pack 2 for XP x64. Did
> all my windows updates. Then I installed the drivers one by one. The last
> driver I installed was the latest SMBus driver provided by Asus. I think
> that
> is what fubared it. because the computer restarted fine untill after that.
> Has anyone run into this issue before? I just want my start bar and
> desktop
> icons back. I can't even hit windows+E to explore. All I can do is hit
> ctrl+alt+delete to see my task manager. Now I can start in safe mode just
> fine. I tried to uninstall the SMbus drivers but to no availe it didn't
> work.
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