XP hangs up on boot ---------------------- I'm stuck in safe mode. Seems to work fine there but hangs up at balck XP screen while booting up in normal mode. I just changed monitors (to a crappy old panasonic for test purposes, was having major display problems with other HP. I think the HP is shot.) When I looked at event log in Control panel manager, it showed the error DCOM got error 3 times during boot "This service cannot be started in Safe Mode " attempting to start the service EventSystem with arguments "" in order to run the server: {1BE1F766-5536-11D1-B726-00C04FB926AF} Also in normal mode my red light is on when it locks up. Also I don't know if this is related, but should I have SIS900 Sis fast ethernet adapter, PCI modem, and Creative EM10K1 audio processor(WDM) all on IRQ11? (Not using PCI modem) Thanks so much for your help, and HAPPY THANKSGIVING! XP home AMD athlon 1.2Ghz 120 G Maxtor HD 384 MRAM PCchips Mobo (Older Bios and Mobo drivers probably need updating)

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