Re: Start up problems

Shinobi wrote:

I don't think it has anything to do with my video card; this problem just
started recently. I can not even start in safe mode, it still freezes up
after a certain amount of time.

"Pennywise@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx" wrote:

Shinobi <Shinobi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I am having problems with the start up of my computer. When I try to
start it up, before Windows loads the computer will freeze up. I cannot
start up the computer in safe mode or do anything else. The computer
always freezes up after a certain amount of time no matter what I try.
When it freezes, the screen either goes black, white, or vertical bars
of black, white, and gray appear in various different patterns across
the screen. I think that if I can get a boot disk I will be able to find
the problem. I just can't get onto the computer at all before it freezes
up. My computer came preinstalled with Windows XP, so I don't have an
installation disk. I've searched for a way to make a boot disk, but
every solution I've found uses the floppy drive, which neither my
computer nor the computer I'm using now have. Does anyone know what the
problem could be? If it helps, the computer having this problem is a
laptop.

I'm guessing your video card, and you crash when the drivers are
loaded.

See if you can start in Safe mode (F8 at boot up) - safe mode uses VGA
(no video drivers), if you boot up ok, might change out your video
card.

I don't know why you *don't* think it's your video card. It certainly sounds
like it. To test, uninstall the card and swap it out for a test video card.
If the test card works, then replace the original one.

If you don't have a spare video card lying around, take the machine to a
professional computer repair shop (not your local version of BigStoreUSA).
They can do additional hardware tests while they've got the machine.

Malke
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