Re: WINXP Boot Problems
- From: pjhjones <pjhjones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 11:50:13 -0700
How do I know if it actually finished loading? It lists a bunch of drivers
stops for about 5 seconds or so and then reboots.
At the screen I do not have a choice to select "Enable Boot Logging"
I can select
Safe Mode
Something about loading with netoworking
Something about comand prompt
Last known good configuration
and Normal
I have attempted all five options and all of them end up with the computer
rebooting withing about 10 seconds or so.
"Patrick Keenan" wrote:
"pjhjones" <pjhjones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message.
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I have a WINXP machine. The other day it was reported to me that it was
having boot up problems. (this machine should almost never be shut down)
I went and attempted to boot the machine. I found that it asks if I want
to
boot in normal or safe mode. I select normal. It acts like it wants to
boot
shows the windows logo, flashes all the data and then asks again if I want
to
boot in normal or safe mode.
If I select safe mode if shows a bunch of stuff across the screen.
Yes, there is a scrolling list of all the drivers loaded. What's important
is whether this list finishes populating, or hangs. If the system hangs,
it's important to note what the last line is - the problem is with the
*next* one, the one you can't see.
At the screen where you select Safe Mode, turn on "Enable Boot Logging".
This will produce a file that you can copy off and read on another system to
see what the boot is having problems with.
I went into the BIOS and found that it says that there is no Master IDE
found and that the hard drive is set as slave. I can not change this in
the
BIOS.
This is changed on the hard disk if you have IDE drives. SATA drives don't
have jumpers.
Some systems use Cable Select settings.
You might consider clearing the CMOS settings - power off, disconnect the
power cable, remove the battery, find and short the CMOS CLEAR jumper and
then put it back, put back the battery, and power up again. If you were
successful, the BIOS will want to rescan the basic hardware.
Now, there's a cheap trick that can sometimes help with boot problems, if
the cause is a corrupted page file. You simply attach the drive to
another system, locate the file 'pagefile.sys' in the root of that drive,
and delete it. Put the drive back, and restart. I've had to force a
restart, but when the pagefile was the problem, the second boot works fine.
HTH
-pk
I took a look at the hard drive and the jumper is set to Master and it is
using the last plug on the ribbon cable. Same as the other three computers
in
the room that work just fine.
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