RE: XP freezes at logo screen (on boot)
From: the dude (thedude_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 06/24/04
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Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 12:10:01 -0700
REPLACE YOUR NEWER AMD MOTHERBOARD WITH A NEWER NEWER MOTHERBOARD AND MAKE SURE YOUR POWER SUPPLY IS WORKING PROPERLY BEFORE DOING THAT.
YOU HAVE SEVERE POWER ISSUES, EITHER FROM A FAILING MOBO OR FROM A BAD POWER SUPPLY
AND NO I'M NOT YELLING AT YOU, I HAVE AN APP AT WORK THAT I'M IN THE MIDDLE OF USING THAT REQUIRES ALL CAPPS
"Bradley" wrote:
> Hey all,
> A little history: My machine is a newer AMD winXP box. I had occasion
> to reinstall windows (a bug or virus that ran all .exe files with 100%
> CPU). Afterwards I went to the MS site and installed all the patches
> (including SP1). Rebooted. NO USB mouse. Tried other USB mouse. No
> good. Put on the little DIN/PS2 adapter, rebooted. Mouse works. About
> a day after that, I reboot the machine, the drives spin up, but no
> signal to the monitor (black). I'm using a NVIDIA 128 PCI card and I
> notice the fan isn't spinning on it. I pull it and put in an ATI PCI
> card, reboot. Same problem. I pull that and put in an old non-PCI card
> and reboot. Now I get to the winXP logo screen (with the little green
> progress bar) and it freezes (this is probably what was happening with
> the PCI cards, I just couldn't see it).
>
> I boot (with the old non-PCI card) to safe mode and windows starts ok.
> Reboot regular and it freezes at the same spot.
>
> Any ideas? Bad motherboard? Power supply? I'm wondering about no
> power to the PCI video card (fan not working).
>
> A side note, I've plugged in two different, working hard drives and have
> the same problem with both.
>
> Help?!
>
> -b
>
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