cyrnel

What's the stop code? Can you safe boot?

I've heard of this with SP4 but haven't seen it. No problem on a couple win2k boxes here and those of many clients. There's probably a driver conflict involved.

Which ATI drivers are you using? What about soundcard drivers? Have you checked <a href="http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/devices.aspx?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&SystemID=DIM_PNT_P3C_4100&os=WW1&osl=EN">Dell for 4100 updates</a> for install before sp4?

At minimum, try recovering without a reinstall. What steps have you attempted before the reinstall?

Stuff is happening so I'm bouncing in and out of tfp. May not be too responsive. The extra info would be good to figure this out though.

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