W2K Boot Freeze

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anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 06/23/04


Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 16:31:47 -0700

have you tried booting into Safemode and removing the
drivers in DeviceMgr and rebooting?
>-----Original Message-----
>Service Pack 4
>
>This is an interesting one.
>While booting, it freezes on the logo screen, about 80%
through the progress bar.
>The animated blue scrolling bar stops and the hard drive
stops.
>I have fixed this before by booting with the Windows disk
and doing a console
>repair. I copy over the Kernel32.dll file and overwrite
the one in the system32
>directory. Now thats not even working. Also, now when I
boot from the disk, it
>will intermitantly freeze after loading the default
drivers where it says
>"Starting Windows 2000". Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
>.
>



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