Re: Now it gets really wierd.....

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"Al Waschka" <AlWaschka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:48C63CAC-BBFF-4EA2-87DC-5264CD593E0D@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Oh,yeah....
> Wouldn't the fact that loading from one partition "repairs" a load from a
> different partition indicate that some driver or dll or whatever isn't
> getting loaded into memory by the defective partition and survives a
> restart
> but not a cold boot? And this is not a random occurrence. I had exactly
> the
> same problem (symptoms-wise) a few months ago. It came back, exactly like
> before, when I "upgraded" to SP2.
>

To find out what is causing the problem you have to eliminate the simple,
obvious things first. Booting into a working install of Windows may
initialise some hardware that is not happening on the other install with
SP2. If the installs were exactly the same except for SP2 then I would
suspect SP2. The installs are not exactly the same. You mentioned that some
time elapsed, printers were installed etc. Troubleshooting is a time
consuming process with few if any shortcuts. Test for the problem after each
change. Start with the simplest steps first. 1) Reset the CMOS. Test for the
problem. 2) disconnect the printer that had problems and remove it's drivers
Test for the problem. 3) download and install the latest drivers for all
your other hardware. Test for the problem, and so on and so on until it's
solved. It may very well end up that something, hardware or software, is not
compatible with SP2. Until you eliminate all the other possibilities you'll
never know.

Kerry



> "Kerry Brown" wrote:
>
>> "Al Waschka" <AlWaschka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:345B9EBC-09CC-49D3-823E-A673F1ECF713@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > My defective SP2 installation is on Drive0
>> > My working pre-SP2 installation is on Drive1
>> > When 0 will not start, if I switch boot device in CMOS to 1, windows
>> > comes
>> > up, as expected.
>> > If I then switch back to 0, IT WORKS!
>> > But then, if I cycle power, i.e. shutdown followed by startup, it hangs
>> > again.
>>
>> That's nice, but it doesn't answer my question. :-) Did you reset the
>> CMOS
>> via the jumper on the motherboard after flashing the BIOS? Failure to do
>> this can sometimes cause erratic results like you are describing. This
>> may
>> not solve the problem but it eliminates one possible cause.
>>
>> Kerry
>>
>>
>>


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