just doing a quick replay as i'm short on time and was looking for my post on this problem, i fixed the same crash where all you see is the "windows starting" screen (i also saw a red dot above it some place.) by means of a simple bios update.
I was having the same problem with my install as Camdiggy, my setup is; ASUS - A8R32MVP ATI 1900XT AMD 64 X2 4400 I am using the x64 bit version if that makes any diffrence. I solved the problem on my computer now, I updated my BIOS and it seems to work. I am now using version 701 on my...