Re: Windows XP hangs on startup after the windows logo shows

See if of the Troubleshooting advice here helps:

http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Hardware_Tshoot


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England

Enquire, plan and execute
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"Stumped66bc" <Stumped66bc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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New info to help the diagnosis. I thought all the hard disc tests
using
PC-Doctor passed but it turns out pc-doctor smart self test fails even
though
my hard disk is supposed to support smartdrive. Could this cause the
problem?

"Gerry Cornell" wrote:

Error Message: Setup Cannot Set the Required Windows XP Configuration
Information
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316425

Try removing all connected peripherals except keyboard, mouse and
monitor and boot.

What precisely is your Windows CD?

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England

Enquire, plan and execute
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"Stumped66bc" <Stumped66bc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message
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My hangs everytime on startup now. It only gets as far as the
Windows
Logo
and then the screen goes blank. It seems to be accessing the hard
drive
briefly in a continuous short cycle. The only way I can end it is
to
hold
down the power switch until it powers down.

This started out of the blue. My system is a relatively new 3.0 Ghz
IBM 8187
43U and I simply shut it down one night and it wouldn't start in
the
morning.
I made no hardware or software changes. Maybe some updates to
Windows
were
applied on shutdown as my system usually applies updates on
shutdown.

I tried all the recovery techniques shown in standard texts.
The computer would hang in SAFE mode at mup.sys.
I tried repairing by booting from the XP CD install disk and that
didn't
work. It simply gave an error saying "Setup cannot set the required
Windows
XP configuration information. This indiscates an internal setup
error.
Contact System Administration"

I then updated my BIOS but still the same problem.
I tried default BIOS setting but still same problem.
I then reset the CMOS but still the same problem.
I ran hardware diagnostics from boot CD and all hardware seems
fine.

My system's primary hard drive is a 40 Gig drive and I also have a
second
internal 40 Gig removal drive (not USB). Same problem even if I
disable or
remove this drive. My data is mostly all on this removable drive
with
system
programs and applications on primary drive.

Any suggestions on how to get this system to boot up properly? I
am
totally
struggling with this one. Help!!







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