Re: WinXP freezing, hanging up.........

Steve

When was this computer purchased new?


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Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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Steve wrote:
"Gerry" wrote:

Steve

Disconnect all peripherals except keyboard, mouse and monitor. Try
Last Known Good Configuration.

A description of the Safe Mode Boot options in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315222/en-us

Did your sister provide you with a Windows XP CD? What model Gateway?

it freezes up when I select Last Know Configuration also

it's a Gateway Performance 1300 and I do have Windows XP CD, but it
also freezes up when I try to boot from it Gerry.

thanks

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Steve wrote:
on startup. my sister sent me her Gateway computer, it worked find
for a couple of days then earlier this week while I was on the net
it just froze up on me, I couldn't use the mouse or anything else.
so I rebooted and it froze and continues to freeze up after. every
now and then I can get as far as the user account icon.

I'm running WinXP as it says in the Topic title. I have tried to
boot from the WinXP installation cd and that hangs up too and it
gets to the Windows Setup screen when it is loading files. I have
also tried another hard drive with the same results. it also will
not boot in the safe mode either.

does anyone have any ideas. if you need more info please let me know


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