Oh,yeah....
Wouldn't the fact that loading from one partition "repairs" a load from a
different partition indicate that some driver or dll or whatever isn't
getting loaded into memory by the defective partition and survives a restart
but not a cold boot? And this is not a random occurrence. I had exactly the
same problem (symptoms-wise) a few months ago. It came back, exactly like
before, when I "upgraded" to SP2.

"Kerry Brown" wrote:

"Al Waschka" wrote in message
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My defective SP2 installation is on Drive0
My working pre-SP2 installation is on Drive1
When 0 will not start, if I switch boot device in CMOS to 1, windows comes
up, as expected.
If I then switch back to 0, IT WORKS!
But then, if I cycle power, i.e. shutdown followed by startup, it hangs
again.

That's nice, but it doesn't answer my question. :-) Did you reset the CMOS
via the jumper on the motherboard after flashing the BIOS? Failure to do
this can sometimes cause erratic results like you are describing. This may
not solve the problem but it eliminates one possible cause.

Kerry