XP freezing on start up

[dapnac3]

I guess it's the drivers...my ECS K7S5A pro has been acting erratic lately. The cpu usage is at 100% sometimes and I haven't been able to track the cause of this behaviour. There is no consistency to when it happens. It not really application related because most of the time I'm online (firefox) reading e-mails.
Last week or so I started getting a message about my display drivers (Nvidia TNT4 video card) and some USB drivers were not installed. Last night I decided to install the usb drivers (I thought I did when I built it) and now the machine freezes on start-up. Windows will start up but the mouse doesn't move.
Maybe I installed the wrong driver. I'm thinking I'll have to re-install windows. Any alternative ideas?

[bailey]

if you installed sp1, there is only one usb driver to use.

[rjfvillarosa]

Originally Posted by dapnac3 There is no consistency to when it happens. It not really application related because most of the time I'm online (firefox) reading e-mails.

Are you sure it's not a malware or virus issue? What antivirus are you running and what adware tools do you use? Firefox is no guarantee against viruses and malware.

[dapnac3]

Originally Posted by rjfvillarosa Are you sure it's not a malware or virus issue? What antivirus are you running and what adware tools do you use? Firefox is no guarantee against viruses and malware.

I'm pretty good with checking for malware. I run spybot and ad-aware, I have avg and norton's on this computer. I recently changed the partitions with a partition manager (I used Acronis Partition Expert 2003) and no sooner that I did that, I started having problems. That's a factor to look at. Windows is on C: approx 20GB, D: is for data and that's around 15GB, E: is for programs and that's the remaining of the 80GB. I'm at work, trying to go by memory so I can't be sure.

[mrmister1]

When you changed the partitions around you may have deleted or corrupted a system file.