Re: Incomplete boot-up

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Richard wrote:
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Richard Urban wrote:
http://search.support.microsoft.com/search/default.aspx?spid=1173&query=Explorer+fails+to+boot&catalog=LCID%3D1033&pwt=false&title=false&kt=ALL&mdt=0&comm=1&ast=1&ast=2&ast=3&mode=a

Thanks for the referral, Richard. The first one shown describes
the problem, but the solution doesn't work because Ctrl-Alt-Del
does not work when it only boots to showing icons. Nothing works
except interrupting power. Any further advice?

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William B. Lurie

It is worth a visit to the web site of your computer maker. Have a search under the model that you have. It is not an HP of a certain age by any chance? They had a run of mother board failures and offer replacements up to next year. Some other makes may well have the same.
There is nothing like an intermittent fault to get ones hair out by the roots!

Another Richard.


Richard, the machine is 3 years old, and I've been the only user
and know all of its ins and outs. It is indeed not an HP, but
an extremely reliable and tractable eMachines T2080. The computer maker,
however, is of the "one year warranty and then pay through the nose"
variety. I lived through the intermittents......and discovered that
tightening five loosely installed motherboard screws really made no
improvement. The worst was a MOLEX 4-pin power connection with an
intermittent. This sort of hanging boot-up appeared suddenly rather
recently and is now a frequent annoyance.......not the kind of thing that an intermittent is likely to cause. It suggests to me, since
it happens before Windows loads any of the start-up applications, not
even the Task Manager, that it was a free gift along with some
Windows Update. I'm trying to analyze it logically. Keep making
suggestions; you always make sense.

Bill


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William B. Lurie
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