Re: XP-Pro hangs on startup, XP Home worked fine.
- From: "Rich Barry" <rbarryNot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 21:53:06 GMT
Radmax, did you give your Ram a check? If you can swap out one stick and
then the other. Also, get Motherboard
Monitor.
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description/0,fid,7309,00.asp
It checks your temps and 3.3, 5 and 12v lines. They shouldnt dip below
5%
"Radmax" <Radmax@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> OK, after playing with it myself for several days, and now the Geek Squad
> at
> the local BB having a go, here's the deal...
> HP Pavillion 8662C, Athlon 550, 384K mem, 2 HD's (20 and 30 Gig), Radeon
> All-In-Wonder, Original Soundcard, NIC, DVD player and new Sony DVDRW,
> extra
> cooling fans.
> All data is backed up on D drive.
> Ran fine with 98, then SE, upgraded to XP Home Jan-Feb 05 with no
> connection
> to internet since last virus scan after XP Home install... (we moved in
> Mar,
> and I did not hook it up again till 2 weeks ago) Last week, I installed
> new
> DVDRW, still running fine...THEN!!!
>
> Installed XP PRO Upgrade, sys would start correctly once or twice then
> would
> hang at startup screen (scanner bars)...but BIOS recognized everything and
> it
> would start in Safe Mode, with everything there (video, NIC, etc...)
> Clean install on C: drive with new partition, same thing again, start up
> normal once or twice, then hangs at startup screen.
> Removed everything but video and another clean install, slowly start
> adding
> things, even loaded updated video drivers from ATI... again one or two
> normal boots then a hang. (4 total clean installs)
> Geeks did the same thing, ran chkdsk, tried to look at bootlogs (sys
> hang),
> disconnected the extra fans (in case it was failing PS), disconnected 'D'
> drive (in case it was a virus), even installed a new CMOS battery... one
> of
> them even got it onto the internet and did the latest updates from
> Microsoft... several normal starts later... they call me and say it's
> fixed,
> I get there, they unplug it from the bench and move it up to the counter
> and
> it hangs when they go to boot it for me, move it back to the bench and the
> same thing (multiple times, multiple geeks).
> When it does boot normal, everything is recognized as running normal by
> windows.
> (One of the kids thinks it just doesn't like me ;-) maybe I yelled at it
> too
> much in the past)
>
> FIRST, any ideas???
>
> Second, is there anything like the old step-by-step startup, where I can
> at
> least see where it might be hanging up?
> We tried turning on a "bootlog" at one of the startup screens when it was
> booting normal, and of course it hung on the next shot and we could not
> see
> anything when we fired it up in safe mode. Is there a boot log that can
> be
> viewed from "C prompt"?
> P.S. can't legally go back to the XP HE, that is now loaded onto my wife's
> Dell.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> --
> Its too damned early in the morning to be this damned early in the
> morning.
.
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