Lately my system has been acting kinda funny. All my drivers are up to date etc plus all windows updates and service pack 1 installed.

However when i boot my system has touble getting into windows. I will boot perfectly into safemode but only every so often into normal windows.

I did have a problem similar to this some time ago concerning my Highpoint raid driver being a different version to that of my onboard raid.

Has anyone got any suggestions??

My system -
AMD Athlon XP 2100+
Epox 8K7A+ Mobo with onboard raid
1x 60GB IBM 1x 120GB IBM 1x 45GB IBM all on onboard raid
Pioneer 106s DVD-ROM
Pioneer 103 DVD-R Drive
Liteon 48x CDRW
LS 120 FDD
Asus Geforce 3 Deluxe
creative SB Audigy

Hve you added anything to your system lately? particularly any new memory? one of my Computers did the same thing recently when I tried to add more Ram the memory slot was bad.

thats just the thing I haven't added anything new. I'm using the same RAM and HDD's that I had in there before and I've tested the HD's with IBMs drive fitness tool just to make sure that it's not something to do with that and they checked out fine.

The problem is most likely to be driver related. Do you have any ! or ? listed in your Device Manager? I'd start there first. Some times programs like CD emulators muck up your SCSI configurations and such.

I'm not using any software like that. I've checked everything.
And No I ain't got any problems with my drivers in device manager.

Download the Bootvis Tool from M$ and do a boot+driver trace. After (automatic) reboot this proggie will present you a graphical representation of your driverloadtimings. Look if anything takes an excessive time to load.

I had a problem with the Undelete Service (3rd party) initializing during my entire bootprocedure. Making my boot take over 4 minutes (normally 30 sec)!

You don't seem to under when I say it takes ages to book it WON'T Boot.

I could leave it for hours and it still wouldn't get into windows.

Plus I tried it.

Thanks for the suggestion anyway.

Sorry misunderstanding!

Try running msconfig from the runbox in the startmenu in safemode. Use Selective Startup with only one box checked and reboot into normal mode. Everything okay? Then in normal mode msconfig will popup again. Check another box under Selective Startup and reboot again. Do this until you can't boot into normal mode. Boot into safemode and go to the tab that corresponds with the box you enabled just before you couldn't reboot into normal mode anymore. Uncheck everything on this tab except for one box. Reboot and enable another checkbox on this tab and so on until again you can't reboot. Now you know what keeps you from booting in to normal mode. Boot into safemode enable everything in msconfig except for the box on the tab you checked just before you couldn't boot into normal mode anymore OR alternatively fix the problem right away in safemode and select Normal Startup. Reboot. You should now be able to boot into normal mode (if not then there is another problem and you should continue the trial and error procedure). Fix the problem (if you haven't done that yet) and select Normal Startup.

It's a lengthy process but there really isn't any other way. Trial and Error!
You could speed up the process by checking e.g. 5 boxes at a time instead of one.

Hope you managed to stay awake during reading this explanation
If you did you will fall asleep during execution of my directions.