From: lazlo_lebrun@laszlomail.com   
      
   On 08/19/2010 03:52 PM, Zz Yzx wrote:   
   > My daughter did SOMETHING, I don't know what.   
   >   
   > Now, on boot-up, it just cycles through the motherboard splash screen,   
   > then the WinXP splash screen, then the RAID screen, and repeats.  And   
   > repeats.  And repeats.  Over and over again.   
   >   
   > If I try to boot in Safe Mode, sometimes I get 3 beeps.  Other times,   
   > it just ignores the Safe Mode and goes through the loop described   
   > above.  Over and over and over.......   
   >   
   > It's a 5-6 yr old Soyo SY-5EMA+ ver. 2 MB.   
   >   
   > Any help appreciated.   
   >   
   > And thanks a heap,   
   >   
   > -Zz   
      
   I may be late with the answer ( 8 months is fair enough ;-)).   
   That sounds strongly like ACPI enabled in the BIOS and not in XP.   
   XP cannot read correctly from your harddisk.   
   Disable ACPI in the BIOS.   
   Enjoy!   
      
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