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I was building a new system consisting of an ECS L4VXA2 motherboard, 2.66 GHz Pentium 4 533 MHz FSB, Western Digital 30 GB hard drive, and Prolink Pixelview GeForce FX 5200 128 MB video card. I had problems installing Windows XP Pro but I eventually got it to install. Now my problem is, Windows would not load. The loading screen would not show up at all when I try to run it as normal. When I try Safe Mode, it would start loading drivers but would stop at Mup.sys.

I have another system that works with an Abit IS7 motherboard, 2.4 GHz Pentium 4 800 MHz FSB, Prolink Pixelview GeForce FX 5600, and Western Digital 80 GB hard drive. I put the 30 GB hard drive (the one in the new system I was building) into my Abit board and it would load Windows. At first, I would get a lot of errors, but they stopped after I ran chkdsk on it. I then put my 80 GB hard drive with Windows XP into the ECS motherboard, but I would get the same problem. Windows loading screen does not show up and drivers stop loading when I run Safe Mode.

Also, I have two sticks of memory: a Corsair 512 MB PC2100 and a generic 512 MB PC2700. I tried both sticks on both motherboards. The Abit worked with both sticks but the ECS did not with work with any of the sticks.

So, could this be a motherboard/CPU problem? Other threads suggested that it might be a memory problem because Windows XP is picky about memory, but both modules worked with my Abit but not with my ECS. If it is a motherboard/CPU problem, what could the problem be?