I agree along the lines of Phoenix:

Fresh install of XP (don't use your image since you've already experienced a failure with it) with the new OEM harddrive removed and TH2G unistalled. Bring yourself to a baseline condition were your sure everything is working correctly then install new harddrive, confirm operation, then TH2G, confirm operation, etc.

I doubt a bios setting was changed unless you've update that in your "housekeeping" mode.

If your still getting blue screens with a baseline install then I would suspect fist a fault with the RAID system. Blue screens during Win startup would indicate a drive error to me.

Hey Joe,

If your Windows works when you reinstall it, be sure to right click My Computer/properties/go to the Advanced tab/startup and recovery settings/select small memory dump (instead of the default kernel) and uncheck automatic restart.

If you can't get that far and still have BSODs, you can always access your drive from the recovery console, and copy the contents of c:\windows\minidump to a flash drive and email it to me so I can read the error code.

yes, mini-dumps save alot of time when it comes to the windows logo (oops I meant BSOD) on the screen.

Thanks for the advice, guys. This weekend was so busy that I hardly saw my computer at all, let alone tried to fix anything. Tonight's time is budgeted for reinstall(s) and troubleshooting, however, and I will be sure to follow all of the tips given. Will report back later.

Time for an update.

Last night I removed my secondary GPU and my sound card from my motherboard, then disconnected the TripleHead2Go and plugged in a single monitor directly to my primary GPU. The 750 GB HDD had already been disconnected.

I then booted to the Windows Recovery Console and ran a chkdsk /r on my RAID 0 array. At the completion of this I saw the message that chkdsk had identified some bad sectors and had repaired them. So far so good; maybe hard drive troubles were the root cause of my issues.

Then I reformatted (full, not quick) the RAID 0 array and installed Windows XP on it. I imaged this clean installation, then installed all of the Windows Updates. I imaged this state of my system as well. I set the system to not automatically restart and to store small memory dumps. I didn't see any blue screens or other trouble at all the whole time.

Then I shut down, connected the new 750 GB HDD, and rebooted. No issues there, either. The drive formatted without difficulty and I installed a few small apps on it (Firefox, AVG, etc.). Then I installed the 191.07 nVidia drivers and rebooted. All worked well here as well. I proceeded to install hardware and drivers for my sound card next, then put the secondary GPU back in and set up a multi-monitor environment.

Everything worked fine. Finally I put the TripleHead2Go back into the loop, and still the system booted fine. The only problem I have left is a weird one with the TripleHead2Go. It seems that it will display triplehead resolutions just fine on all screens (e.g. 3072x768) but will not properly display the equivalent single screen resolution on the center screen (e.g. 1024x768). Instead of a desktop image the monitor is just dark green (not off or on standby, though). I suspect this has to do with the newly flashed firmware that coincided with the beginning of all of these issues, but I have more playing around to do.

Glad to hear you are sorted. I'd have loved to see one of the Dump files, but I'm not good enough with the Recovery Console. Maybe Phoenix could explain the process here how to copy them over.

What are you using to image your drive, btw? Remember, never defrag the drive with the system images on it, those files love to become corrupt on defrag.

I bought Acronis True Image 2010 along with a second 750GB drive and an external enclosure.

When I get everything set up, Acronis will image my desktop drives weekly and store the images on the server. The server's RAID 1 array will also be imaged and stored on the external drive. Then the external drive will be removed from the house (stored at my office or at my parents' place) and I'll bring it back every once in a while to update the image archive.

Well, chalk part of this problem up to plain stupidity on my part.

The older TripleHead2Go firmware displayed a single-screen resolution on the center monitor by default. The new firmware displays this image on the left monitor by default, but this can be easily swapped with the Matrox software.

I didn't know (or more appropriately, forgot from a long time ago) that this occured, and thus I was left with a blank center monitor not understanding what was happening. There was never any firmware issue to begin with (which makes the bluescreen problems that much weirder).

Anyway, I'm getting all of my apps installed and soon I'll be back to normal. Thanks for everyone's help.