RE: W2K Boot Freeze

From: Bill (Bill_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 06/24/04 

Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 17:11:01 -0700

I should have included that in my initial post, yes, it hangs on safe mode too. No new drivers/hardware installed. It does now boot but it hangs at the 80% range for 10-20 minutes

"anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com" wrote:

> 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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