Re: Freezing on Startup

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Ken wrote:


"Frank Booth Snr" wrote:


Ken wrote:

When my Windows 2000 is loading, all progresses until the Windows 2000
Professional screen is showing and startup proceeds until 13 blue squares are
showing in the progress bar when the system freezes about 80% of the times
and has to be powered down and restart the process. What hardware is failing
the start up test?

It's not a hardware failure issue, as you would not have gotten as far as the Win2k logo screen were that the case. It's either a driver issue (the software that allows the hardware to enact with Win2k) or a system file problem. Try going into Safe mode first of all. Tap the F8 button
just before the logo screen appears, ie when the black and white progress bar screen is running, choose Safe mode on the menu, and see if you can boot up in that to start with.

Note, it takes a little while to reach Safe mode, and the screen appears to freeze, but that is normal.
System fails to start in safe mode with BSOD saying

STOP 0x0000000A(0xed519354,0x000000ff,0x00000001,0x80464109) IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
Address 80464109 Base 80400000 ntoskernel.exe
Do this identify a problem?

It probably means you have a corrupt driver. You could try doing a fast repair on your system using your win2k disk as a boot, but experience tells me it is unlikely to fix this situation if it is a hardware specific driver, but give this a try first. The quickest way out of this is to re-install Win2k over what you have now. Do not reformat/partition your hdd. It will mean having to download your hardware drivers again (mobo, graphics card etc), but if these are on cd it is a simple process.

Although this should not affect any data files, have you already backed these up?
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