Re: XP startup problem

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Hi,

No, the file system isn't the problem. Freezing, especially cold-boot
freezing, often indicates a hardware issue. You may want to start by check
the physical memory (ram). There are free programs here:

http://www.simmtester.com/page/products/doc/download.asp
http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Mike" <mike@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I have XP home SP2 on a 2.2 Ghz AMD 64 with 1G memory. On windows startup
> the blue, sideways moving progress bar often, not always, stops. The
> computer does nothing at this point. Restarting by pressing the reset
> button brings up windows fine only after selecting "Run Windows Normally'"
> (or something like that) from the screen that gives me the option to start
> in safe mode.
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> I ran the Belarc Advisor and found this report for my hard drive: c:
> (FAT32 on drive 0).
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> My other computer is NTFS. Could that be the issue?
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Mike
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