system hangs up during boot

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Soldier101

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Hey guys, at work right now, I work at Best Buy Geeksquad and I have ran into a problem I can't solve.

I ran DFT (checks harddrive for "okness" haha)
I ran memory tester to make sure memory wasnt bad.

Everything came back fine, proceeded to reinstall windows to fix issue, after windows finished reinstalling, tried to boot, same issue, hangs up on the windows xp loading screen. I suspect motherboard and power supply. Second Opinions?

***EDIT****
I have also tried different power supplies to rule out not getting enough power to certain components.
 
Does the system have some kind of memory shadow option enabled in the bios?

Does it even boot in safe mode?

What kind of system is this?
 
might want to try jumping the CMOS jumper. I had a problem like that once, where windows wouldn't load past the loading screen. Resetting the cMOS did the trick. If it gets to the point where you constantly get the CMOS Checksum error, you might want to replace the CMOS battery.
 
trying full destructive restore (deleting partitions, long format the works)

emachines desktop.

no shadowing options
 
BTW, according to the notes, other geek squad agents have tried to boot the machine in safe mode with same issue.
 
try swapping out the hard drive...i know it sounds silly, but i just had the same problem on a p3 500mhz system (took 5+ minutes to get out of POST) and replacing the drive made all the difference

i hope i could help!
-alan
 
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