Re: Windows XP startup



"Phil Weldon" wrote:

'Sailor' wrote, in part:
| I recently installed XP Home upgrading from W98SE. Ever since, I'm unable
to
| start up completely to the desktop.
..
..
| BTW, my computer is a whitebox one, 800mhz, 5years old. I flashed the
| AMIBIOS to the latest version the other day to see if that would work.
Nada.
| As I didn't want to carry a huge registry over from 98, I saved the
documents
| I wanted and did a clean install for XP. Now I wish maybe I hadn't!
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Hardware problem. Possibly Windows XP doesn't support some hardware on the
motherboard. Also, a 800 MHz CPU is VERY marginal for Windows XP. How much
RAM is installed and what is the free capacity of the hard drive.

Phil Weldon

"Sailor" <Sailor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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|I recently installed XP Home upgrading from W98SE. Ever since, I'm unable
to
| start up completely to the desktop. When the XP start screen comes up with
| the progress "dots" crossing the screen, they hang and the start up stops.
I
| have found that the only way to get a complete start up is to press the
reset
| button, wait 2 seconds, then press the power button to shut off the
computer.
| Wait a few more seconds and press the power button. From the text screen
that
| comes up, I let it do a "normal" start. It then does a complete start up.
| (Yes, I can start in Safe Mode). I have noticed that if I wait for several
| minutes before I restart that it hangs again. That is, it seems as if the
| start will be complete if the computer is "warm". It won't start if it is
| "cold".
| I have tried everything I can think of like removing practically all
of
| my hardware like webcam, printer, scanner, etc. and uninstalling all of my
| miscellaneous programs like antivirus, anti-adware, etc. I've checked
| compatibility of all of the above on Windows compatibility lists. I've
tried
| system restore but that doesn't work because it just goes back to the same
| condition. I've reinstalled XP. I've even checked the CMOS battery and
it's
| good. Although I can continue to start using the above mentioned method,
it
| is a pain and I'd sure like to find out what's causing the problem. Is it
a
| "boot" file problem? Any help will be muuuuuch appreciated.
| BTW, my computer is a whitebox one, 800mhz, 5years old. I flashed the
| AMIBIOS to the latest version the other day to see if that would work.
Nada.
| As I didn't want to carry a huge registry over from 98, I saved the
documents
| I wanted and did a clean install for XP. Now I wish maybe I hadn't!


Thanks for your reply. I only have 256mb of RAM right now. I bought a 256mb stick on ebay but it isn't recognized by the system. Can't understand why unless it was DOA. The system hangs and won't even start! The computer works fine with either or both of the 128 sticks I now have after I do get it started with the method I mentioned earlier. Does RAM have anything to do with my weird start up? As for the OS it has SP2. The HDD is 20gig with 14 gig free. BTW I installed a second HDD of 10MB before I installed XP. I converted drive C: (the main) to NTSC but left the 10gb one at FAT32. Could that have any effect on my problem? The funny thing is as I described earlier, the start up hangs on initial start BUT it does start when I restart using the "normal" start up method from the text screen.
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