Re: Not Loading to Desktop

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You might try a bootlog (safe mode option menu) to see what loads last before the stop.
it creates ntbtlog.txt in the windows folder.
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Mark L. Ferguson

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"JStreet" <JStreet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:47E04ED7-7FF1-40E0-9048-92972E871327@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I put in another video card and when I go into safe mode and look at the
hardware everything checks out fine, no driver issues.

"Mark L. Ferguson" wrote:

Then you have a driver problem. Since it happens on a new install, it's
probably some video card problem.
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"JStreet" <JStreet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I forgot to mention that the computer will go into Safe Mode.
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> "JStreet" wrote:
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>> I have a computer that has XP Home running on it and it will not load >> to
>> the
>> desktop. It shows the XP Logo and it shows the progrees bar going by
>> twice
>> and then blank. The hard drive light stops flashing and it goes not
>> further
>> but the green light is on the monitor.
>>
>> I have reformatted the hard drive and reinstalled the XP. I have used >> the
>> Recovery Console to check to see it there are any errors on the hard
>> drive
>> and it comes back clean.
>>
>> It is an ASUS motherboard and I have used their checking program to >> see
>> if
>> it finds any errors on the hard drive and it doesn't.
>>
>> I ran software from Microsoft to check the RAM and it came back clean.
>>
>> I took a video card out of another system and put it in and still no
>> progress.
>>
>> Has anyone else ever ran across this before? Can anyone recommend any
>> better
>> testing software that I can use that does not require it be ran from >> the
>> GUI?
>>
>> Thanks
>>


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