Windows XP Pro P4 2.0 GHz CPU ABIT TH7II RAID mobo Western Digital Caviar 60GB HD (IDE 4) Pioneer DVD 106S DVD ROM (IDE 2) Plextor 24/10/40 CDRW (IDE 1) 1GB PC800 RDRAM (Kingston ValueRAM) ATI Radeon 8500 VGA Card Netgear FA312 NIC Hauppauge WinTV TV+Radio card Soundblaster Audigy Player Alcatel USB ADSL modem Whenever I perform a cold boot on this PC, which I built myself, I receive the BSOD and the error message BAD_SYSTEM_CONFIG_INFO. This screen does not appear on a restart, only when started from completely off. I've tried all the fixes recommended on the blue screen, such as disabling shadowings etc, no luck. When I turn off and startup again, I can usually (but not always) boot into XP choosing 'last known good'. I have applied the Microsoft fix (KB article Q247998) to no avail. I have updated my mobo BIOS (now running 38, from 37) still no luck. I am running the single hard drive while I wait for a replacement for a faulty drive, also a caviar 60GB. When I was running as a RAID (o) using these twin caviars, I still had the same problem. When I ran a Soundblaster Live! card, I still had the problem. When I was using an older Hauppauge WinTV card, I still had the problem...get where I'm coming from? As far as I am aware, I have all the latest drivers etc (including the Highpoint RAID controller driver), and all the latest windows updates. Right from the first install of XP, I have had this problem. I have never run anything other than XP on this system.This problem has persisted for two months and nine complete re-installs now and I just can't seem to pin it down. It's driving me mad!! Although there is no reason why I can't leave the machine on all the time, it's hardly energy-efficient (I can't suspend,see footnote) and I can't help thinking it's an indicator of something serious.. Also: I am unable to hibernate or standby my machine...I choose hibernate or stand by from the menu and then my system displays the 'preparing to hibernate / stand by' screen and then just freezes completely, even left for hours it's still just dead.. I am running XP Pro on one other PC and a Notebook with no problems at all,and any help on this one would be greatly appreciated, either posted here or emailed to reebokgeezer@btclick.com Thanks Guys.

I would check to see if your paging file is big enough, and it's possible a bad ram stick is causing problems. These can cause the computer to have trouble loading the registry at startup.

Thanks for the advice... I've removed my paging file altogether now, was running auto sized. I still have the same problem..I've removed each ram stick in turn and re-inserted each one seperately and booted up...I still get the same problem...

Souds like you are pushing some wattage. Power supply big enough? If not that can cause unexplainded happinings for your hardware/software and ect. may be alittle hungry for some voltage. The blue screen of death is an NT error, It indicates that the system config information is bad. Meaning you are having a hardware and or driver compadibility conflict. You may want to take some time and check compadibility on web sites. If It were me I would pull all of my hardware and such in cluding cards except for bare min, go into bios reset my defaults and start trouble shooting from there. Good Luck

Sounds like you are pushing some wattage. Power supply big enough? If not that can cause unexplainded happinings for your hardware/software and ect. may be alittle hungry for some voltage. The blue screen of death is an NT error, It indicates that the system config information is bad. Meaning you are having a hardware and or driver compadibility conflict. You may want to take some time and check compadibility on web sites. If It were me I would pull all of my hardware and such including cards except for bare min, go into bios reset my defaults and start trouble shooting from there. Good Luck

I HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM but with completely different configuration winxp pro Athlon 1000 ECS K7S5A with lan and audio Riva TNT 16 MB Seagate U6 20 GB 256 DDR 2100 lg cdrw 32/12/8 300 W power supply when I restart the system, everything is OK, but... when I start it "from cold", in the morning for example, I get blue screen with bad system config info message.... and sometimes after many restarts system cannot start... I did about 10 reinstalls in two weeks !!!! It's really nightmare !!!! I tried to replace RAM, video card, many versions of BIOS... and still no cucsess... WHAT IS GOING ON??? Please, HELP !!!! THX !!!

i have the same problem ATHLON 1700+ ABIT TH7II RAID MAXTOR 40GB NVIDIA TNT2 GRAPGICS SOUNDBLASTER 16 2* 256MB DELL RAM SAMSUNG SW408-B CD-RW Have tried over 50 times to install xp from formated hard drive, the only other thing i can recomened you try is to restart in dos and run attrib.exe from c: and type: attrib.exe -h c:\windows\system.dat attrib.exe -r c:\windows\system.dat attrib.exe -h c:\windows\user.dat attrib.exe -r c:\windows\user.dat this removes the read only attribute from the registry files, didn't work for me though.