I gutted my machine and loaded all the new components into a new chassis. I could boot only with the "load previous settings" option. After that, it would find all and re-install drivers for all of my PCI cards. After re-booting, a normal boot would get to the startup screen, with the multi-color Windows XP logo, and the multi-color circular progress bar. After a few moments, I could see a brief BSOD screen flash up, then it would reboot. I would then start the sequence over again, booting with previous settings, reload drivers, reboot normally, crash, rinse again. Safe mode boot would get to asp440.dll, and reboot once more. I finally yanked out all of the cards except for my RAID card, and video card. I booted up once more and ran into the same problems all over again. After I did a search with asp440.dll and found this page, I realized that I had not put my PCI cards back in the same slots as before, in order to provide more breathing room for the video card. It's one of those monster Nvidia cards with it's own fan. I put the RAID card back in it's original location, in the first slot next to the AGP slot. That fixed the problem. Two things I learned. Apparently, slot location makes a difference, for a reason I don't understand just yet. Also, disable the Automatically Restart option on the Startup and Recovery dialog, from the Advanced Tab of System Properties. The automatic restart was preventing me from getting any useful info from the BSOD screen that flashed up just before rebooting. I could not find any log files when I got the system up under previous settings boot mode. I looked under event viewer, and the bootlog.txt files. I hope this info helps somebody else. I really don't think asp440.dll had anything to with my issue.

I had a similiar problem only I turned the bios caches off to slow down the computer so I could read the screen. Wich didn't realy help me much sense im not too familiar with deep technical things.. so I just ran the recovery prompt from my xp recovery CD and used the checkdisk command from the drive I needed repaired. 'chkdsk /r' and that fixed my problem.