WINXP SP2 Installs then hangs on boot

Hi guys question here..
I just bought a K8N Neo3 (MS-7135), after installs WINXP SP2 with the disk that came with the board the windows hangs on the boot screen ( i mean the Windows XP one)..
What could be wrong. I use CPU, RAM, and VIDEO (FX 5200) from a previous config so i know that works...
TIA
K8N Neo3
Bios Version 1.1
AMD 64 3000
512Ram Spectek DDR 400
Nvidia FX 5200
Seagate 80Gb Sata ST380817AS
500W PSU
Windows XP Sp2

The more information you give, the more likely somebody here can help you. Here's a hint from the Forum Guide:
"Before posting a question, create a signature using the Profile button at the top of the screen, and then clicking the Edit Signature button. In this signature include all the components that make up your system:
-Motherboard type and model (MSI 865PE Neo2 FIS2R)
-Bios type and revision (AMI rev 1.9)
-CPU type and model (AMD Athlon FX-51)
-Memory name, model and quantity (Kingston KHX4000K2)
-Video card name and model plus drivers and version (MSI GeForce4 Ti4800SE)
-Power Supply name, model and the amp rating for the +3.3V, +5V and +12V lines plus any limitation on the +3.3/+5V combined watts. This information can be found on a sticker on the side of the supply.
-Hard Drives: Manufacturer, type and size and which IDE or SATA ports they are located on
-Optical Drives: Manufacturer and type and which IDE ports they are located on
-Operating system and service pack level"
Good luck and please repost with all the info. Even if something worked in your old system, it might be incompatible with something in your new system.

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http://cotting.us/gparted-sda.jpg
http://cotting.us/gparted-sdb.jpg
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2 2871662592 5860532223 1.4 TiB 0700
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I am also having a similar issue. I can install earlier versions of iTunes, 7 and earlier, however, my iPod is only compatible with iTunes 8 or later. When trying to install it on my custom machine with XP Pro x64 on it, I consistently get messages recommending to install the 64-bit version (which is only compatible with Vista), or at the end of the setup initialization I get an error message saying I need to have Service Pack 2 or better. I keep my machine fully updated at all times so I KNOW I have SP3. I have tried multiple times reinstalling the service packs just to make sure I'm not crazy and the Microsoft update site isn't lying when it says in my update history that I have in fact installed ALL updates available. No change whatsoever. Does anyone have a link to a fix for this? Getting incredibly frustrated trolling forum after forum looking for an answer, and talking to clueless customer service reps that don't know what I'm talking about half the time...
Thanks in advance,
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Hangs during boot after upgrading to Kernel 2.6.39

I have just installed Arch on a new computer. It works fine until I upgrade to Kernel 2.6.39. After that it hangs on boot.
The end of /var/log/everything.log is posted below.
Jul 26 23:52:06 localhost kernel: [ 6.036766] [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0: Parsing VBIOS init table at offset 0x85F3
Jul 26 23:52:06 localhost kernel: [ 6.129046] adt7475 1-002e: ADT7473 device, revision 1
Jul 26 23:52:06 localhost kernel: [ 6.138997] [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0: Detected monitoring device: adt7473
Jul 26 23:52:06 localhost kernel: [ 6.139000] [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0: 1 available performance level(s)
Jul 26 23:52:06 localhost kernel: [ 6.139002] [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0: 0: memory 405MHz core 270MHz shader 540MHz
Jul 26 23:52:06 localhost kernel: [ 6.139233] [TTM] Zone kernel: Available graphics memory: 12371030 kiB.
Jul 26 23:52:06 localhost kernel: [ 6.139236] [TTM] Zone dma32: Available graphics memory: 2097152 kiB.
Jul 26 23:52:06 localhost kernel: [ 6.139238] [TTM] Initializing pool allocator.
Jul 26 23:52:06 localhost kernel: [ 6.139252] [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0: Detected 5376MiB VRAM
Jul 26 23:52:06 localhost kernel: [ 6.139260] mtrr: type mismatch for d0000000,8000000 old: write-back new: write-combining
Jul 26 23:52:06 localhost kernel: [ 6.150626] [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0: 512 MiB GART (aperture)
Jul 26 23:52:06 localhost kernel: [ 6.152371] [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0: failed to load fuc409d
Jul 26 23:52:06 localhost kernel: [ 6.176193] [drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 1 (10.10.2010).
Jul 26 23:52:06 localhost kernel: [ 6.176195] [drm] No driver support for vblank timestamp query.
Jul 26 23:52:06 localhost kernel: [ 6.228800] No connectors reported connected with modes
Jul 26 23:52:06 localhost kernel: [ 6.228802] [drm] Cannot find any crtc or sizes - going 1024x768
Jul 26 23:52:06 localhost kernel: [ 6.231002] [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0: allocated 1024x768 fb: 0x8020000, bo ffff880608d97800
Jul 26 23:52:06 localhost kernel: [ 6.233786] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
Jul 26 23:52:06 localhost kernel: [ 6.235094] fb0: nouveaufb frame buffer device
Jul 26 23:52:06 localhost kernel: [ 6.235094] drm: registered panic notifier
Jul 26 23:52:06 localhost kernel: [ 6.235098] [drm] Initialized nouveau 0.0.16 20090420 for 0000:04:00.0 on minor 0
Jul 26 23:52:06 localhost kernel: [ 6.255449] HDA Intel 0000:04:00.1: PCI INT B -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
Jul 26 23:52:06 localhost kernel: [ 6.255451] hda_intel: Disable MSI for Nvidia chipset
Jul 26 23:52:06 localhost kernel: [ 6.255599] HDA Intel 0000:04:00.1: setting latency timer to 64
Jul 26 23:52:06 localhost kernel: [ 7.663482] EXT4-fs (sda3): re-mounted. Opts: (null)
Jul 26 23:52:06 localhost kernel: [ 7.807508] EXT4-fs (sda4): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
Jul 26 23:52:06 localhost kernel: [ 7.851401] Adding 265068k swap on /dev/sda2. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:265068k
Jul 26 23:52:06 localhost kernel: [ 8.569682] r8169 0000:08:00.0: eth0: link down
Jul 26 23:52:06 localhost kernel: [ 8.569687] r8169 0000:08:00.0: eth0: link down
Jul 26 23:52:06 localhost dhcpcd[747]: eth0: waiting for carrier
Jul 26 23:52:08 localhost dhcpcd[747]: eth0: carrier acquired
Jul 26 23:52:08 localhost kernel: [ 10.301736] r8169 0000:08:00.0: eth0: link up
Jul 26 23:52:08 localhost dhcpcd[747]: eth0: broadcasting for a lease
Jul 26 23:52:12 localhost dhcpcd[747]: eth0: offered 131.181.53.42 from 131.181.127.32
Jul 26 23:52:13 localhost dhcpcd[747]: eth0: acknowledged 131.181.53.42 from 131.181.59.48
Jul 26 23:52:13 localhost dhcpcd[747]: eth0: checking for 131.181.53.42
Jul 26 23:52:18 localhost dhcpcd[747]: eth0: leased 131.181.53.42 for 43200 seconds
Jul 26 23:52:18 localhost dhcpcd[747]: forked to background, child pid 774
Jul 26 23:52:18 localhost crond[823]: /usr/sbin/crond 4.5 dillon's cron daemon, started with loglevel info
Jul 26 23:53:01 localhost crond[823]: FILE /etc/cron.d/prune-cronstamps USER root PID 835 job prune-cronstamps
Jul 26 23:53:01 localhost crond[823]: FILE /var/spool/cron/root USER root PID 836 job sys-hourly
Jul 26 23:53:01 localhost crond[823]: FILE /var/spool/cron/root USER root PID 837 job sys-daily
Jul 26 23:53:01 localhost crond[823]: FILE /var/spool/cron/root USER root PID 838 job sys-weekly
Any help fixing this would be greatly appreciated.

I have been trying to isolate the problem a little further. I re-installed (with just the base and sudo) and after upgrading pacman rebooted and it worked without fail. Then I installed libusb and libusb-compat which where required when I tried to upgrade just the kernel using
pacman -S kernel26
which initially failed because of the missing dependencies libusb and libusb-compat. I then re-booted and that worked without a problem.
I then upgraded to Kernel 2.6.39 using the above command and then it hung on rebooting. I saved the logs at each stage.
The additional logs in errors.log in the reboot that failed are as follows.
ul 26 16:28:39 O313 kernel: [ 5.120698] [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0: Pointer to BIT loadval table invalid
Jul 26 16:28:39 O313 kernel: [ 5.360508] [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0: failed to load fuc409d
Jul 26 16:28:39 O313 kernel: [ 5.808016] sd 20:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
Jul 26 16:28:39 O313 kernel: [ 5.809960] sd 20:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
Jul 26 16:28:39 O313 kernel: [ 5.812116] sd 20:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
Jul 26 16:28:35 O313 udevd[369]: error: runtime directory '/run/udev' not writable, for now falling back to '/dev/.udev'
The end of kernel.log is as follows:
Sat Jul 9 14:57:41 CEST 2011
Jul 26 16:28:39 O313 kernel: [ 0.000000] Command line: root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/e4733c60-3e54-4001-a83e-415b690dfcb0 ro
Jul 26 16:28:39 O313 kernel: [ 0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
Jul 26 16:28:39 O313 kernel: [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable)
Jul 26 16:28:39 O313 kernel: [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
Jul 26 16:28:39 O313 kernel: [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
Jul 26 16:28:39 O313 kernel: [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 00000000cfed0000 (usable)
Jul 26 16:28:39 O313 kernel: [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000cfed0000 - 00000000cfed1000 (ACPI NVS)
Jul 26 16:28:39 O313 kernel: [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000cfed1000 - 00000000cfee0000 (ACPI data)
Jul 26 16:28:39 O313 kernel: [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000cfee0000 - 00000000cff00000 (reserved)
Jul 26 16:28:39 O313 kernel: [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000f0000000 - 00000000f4000000 (reserved)
Jul 26 16:28:39 O313 kernel: [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
Jul 26 16:28:39 O313 kernel: [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000100000000 - 0000000630000000 (usable)
Jul 26 16:28:39 O313 kernel: [ 0.000000] NX (Execute Disable) protection: active
Jul 26 16:28:39 O313 kernel: [ 0.000000] DMI 2.4 present.
Jul 26 16:28:39 O313 kernel: [ 0.000000] DMI: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. X58A-UD5/X58A-UD5, BIOS FD 02/01/2011
Jul 26 16:28:39 O313 kernel: [ 0.000000] e820 update range: 0000000000000000 - 0000000000010000 (usable) ==> (reserved)
Jul 26 16:28:39 O313 kernel: [ 0.000000] e820 remove range: 00000000000a0000 - 0000000000100000 (usable)
Jul 26 16:28:39 O313 kernel: [ 0.000000] No AGP bridge found
Jul 26 16:28:39 O313 kernel: [ 0.000000] last_pfn = 0x630000 max_arch_pfn = 0x400000000
And this is the end of daemon.log
Jul 26 16:27:49 O313 init: Switching to runlevel: 6
Jul 26 16:27:50 O313 dhcpcd: received SIGTERM, stopping
Jul 26 16:27:50 O313 dhcpcd: eth0: removing interface
Jul 26 16:28:39 O313 2.352592] udevd[87]: starting version 171
Jul 26 16:28:39 O313 4.531007] udevd[370]: starting version 171
Jul 26 16:28:39 O313 dhcpcd: version 5.2.2 starting
Jul 26 16:28:39 O313 dhcpcd: eth0: waiting for carrier
Jul 26 16:28:35 O313 udevd[369]: error: runtime directory '/run/udev' not writable, for now falling back to '/dev/.udev'
Jul 26 16:28:39 O313 init: Entering runlevel: 3
Please let me know if any further information would be useful in tracking down this problem. Also ignore any timings in my initial post they were incorrect.
Last edited by TheStatsMan (2011-07-26 07:40:48)

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