Cannot get past WinXP starting up screen
- From: "Martin C" <martinC@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 08:46:03 +0100
Not sure what has caused this problem, but whenever I try to start up WinXP
Home SP2, I get as far as the initial startup screen (the black one with the
WinXP logo in vga mode and the blue 'Knight Rider' scanning gif below it.
You see the HDD activate for a while, then it just hangs there ad nausium.
I have tried going into Safe mode and going back a restore point (I had
installed a PC magazine cover full version of Paragon Disk Manager, but have
not done anything with it yet. I had also been able to get into XP after it
had been installed anyway.) Going into Safe mode, I cannot find anything
obviously wrong - no adware, no viruses, no odd changes in the msconfig.
I should also mention at this point that I sometimes have trouble starting
up the PC in the first place (before I even get to the logo screen - the
monitor does not come out of standby). Not sure if that is related or not.
The question is:
What normally happens at the vga logo startup that could be causing this
hang up. I eventually managed to get into windows by selecting the 'Use a
configuration that used to work' option, but it still hangs sometimes.
Is there anything I can do to find the culprit?
TIA
Martin
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