Re: Boot problems - How to debug / see an error message ?

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Lee

As long as you have something like 19 items being recorded during the boot
period then this suggest you are on the right track.

What is the situation with regard to the application log?

Are you still getting the "pc froze with the egg timer over the welcome
screen?"


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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"lee" <lee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "lee" wrote:
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>> "Gerry Cornell" wrote:
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>> > Lee
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>> > I would look in the System log and not the Security log.
>> >
>> Under Event Viewer? Only the Security section there had a new entry.
>>
> Just to clarify, that should really have read :
>
> Under Event Viewer? Only the Security section there had a new entry marked
> as either a warning, error or failure.


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