Hi, This may be a bit complicated, but I'll do my best.
I just built a new machine with an Intel MB and CPU. I cloned my Hard disk with winxp sp3 on it to another disk within my old ASUS AMD based MB. Moved the cloned disk into the new machine and I am able to boot into Win XP, but only as far as the LOGON screen. At that screen I hit ENTER to log on and it says "Loading Personal settings" then it goes to a blank blue screen and after a while goes back to the "Logoff" screen. If I hit Cancel it goes back to "LogOn" screen and repeats.
If I try to go in in Safe Mode, I still get the LogOn screen and it does the same thing.
Obviously there is some major hardware issue here, but where to begin to troubleshoot? Any thoughts and ideas welcome.
Thank you!

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