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XP Stuck Rebooting but boots to Safemode

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I recently had troubles getting my Lite-On optical drive to run in DMA mode. I updated the JMicron drivers for it and it was working fine. I don't know if this has anything to do with it but the JMicron update had two options, one for SCSI and one for Standard IDE. I did the first one and everything was working then I did the second one and now XP won't start. I don't know if it is just chance or what. XP just keeps restarting after the logo with the status bar. I have tried unchecking the "Automatically Restart" under system failure options to see if there is a blue screen but it still just restarts. I have also tried a system recovery to back a week ago to no success. When starting in safe mode and loading drivers a message comes up that says "ESC to cancel loading SPTD.sys" or something like that. I don't know if that has anything to do with it either. I have the minidump files but can't read them either because I don't have the right program. Any help or ideas would be very nice! I'm so frusterated right now! :mad:
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I can uninstall the drive yes. I haven't tried that. But I did try unplugging it so it wasn't detected. I will try uninstalling and post back.
Well it finally started giving me a bluescreen and the error was with a display driver (ati2mtag.sys). I had recently updated to omega radeon drivers and I think that is the problem. I moved that driver to the desktop and it booted into regular mode. Now I just need to fix my display drivers.
Are they working for you now?
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