Asus P5GD2 cycling or freezing

[JohnL]

I have an Asus P5GD2 motherboard, carrying an Intel P4 540 3.2 Ghz chip and 2 gbytes of Kingston PC2-4200 memory. It is about 4 years old, and has suddenly started freezing up during reboot, or rebooting itself about 10 seconds into the windows XP logo. With Linux (Acronis) it completes boot but there is no mouse or keyboard live - I can't do anything. The system WILL boot to Windows safe mode, and safe mode with networking. It will NOT boot in diagnostic mode or in normal mode withh all services and startup applications disabled.

I have pulled all cards except the graphics card, and I have tried pulling 1 Gbytes of memory out in turn - no luck.

I'm down to CPU or motherboard failure. How can I determine whether the CPU is the problem, or the motherboard? Any other ides?

[Mixeur]

Most likely, it is related to motherboard.

[Guest]

I wish I could understand why it works in safe mode.

[Mixeur]

surely some driver fail to initialise an important piece of mobo's hardware, because it is faulty, maybe related with keyboard/mous management (Super I/O chip related ?)