Some prblem with XP

Post by **Iceblade** » 06 Jun 2004, 13:20

I have had this problem for a while and though after a good format it will go away, but it still happens.

When I restart my PC through winows, and the boot-up XP screen comes up the bar just keep searching, but does not go thru to the Welcome screen or Desktop.It keeps running, and my HHD led does not indicate that it is working.

So I turn it of and back on again and then it's fine

Weeks pass and then it happens again, WHY

Sometimes after manual restart(after the thing keeps running/searching), a screen comes up with choice to start windows in safe mode, bla bla bla and start windows normally, then I choice normally and it works fine.

When I forget about it, it happens again

Why why why

Post by **Thrall** » 06 Jun 2004, 13:40

You say that after a format it's fine, but then after a while it happens again...and that your HD light doesn't come on?

Don't know if you've tried a Scandisk recently, but it's starting to sound like a HD that's developing bad sectors...run something like Norton Disk Doctor on your HD, or freeware tools like HDD Health and/or Emsa DiskCheck and see what's going on - it could also be caused by high HD temps.

Post by **Iceblade** » 06 Jun 2004, 13:50

I don't hope so 8O

I only sold my Seagate 80 gig about 3 months back and bought this 120 Western Digital SATA I'm using now.

So, I'll check while it's still under waranty 8O

Psych0_Cr1tt3r · Post by **Psych0_Cr1tt3r** » 06 Jun 2004, 13:55

Try unplugging extra things like Flash Drives and such. It sounds silly but it works sometimes

Post by **Thrall** » 06 Jun 2004, 13:55

Hope not either, bud

Post by **Iceblade** » 06 Jun 2004, 14:22

Psych0_Cr1tt3r wrote:Try unplugging extra things like Flash Drives and such. It sounds silly but it works sometimes

Have no flash drives

Only HP scanner, Canon printer

Hate this

Weird then it happens and then it's fine for weeks

My 120 is partitioned 20/100
the 20 is NTFS and the 100 fat32, could that do something

DarkStreetDevelopment · Post by **DarkStreetDevelopment** » 06 Jun 2004, 14:28

Maybe it's a hardware thing? Try plugging out all extra hardware and only leave the neccesary things in.

Ridgback · Post by **Ridgback** » 06 Jun 2004, 15:26

I had this problem with an AMD 750 with 256 RAM.
I added more RAM, then did the format thing.
It works fine now.
XP takes up a lot of RAM and although they say it only takes 256, this is not always the case. after a restert, it will work but from boot up, when XP loads all the RAM it does this ( freeze on start etc)
Hope it helps.

Post by **Iceblade** » 06 Jun 2004, 15:38

It helps to hear, someone else had this problem

But I have 512 DDR400 ram, seems anough.
Amd 2600+
420 PSU
DFI lanparty MOBO
120 SATA western digital
MSI FX5900
and and and and

Ridgback · Post by **Ridgback** » 06 Jun 2004, 15:45

Then it could be corrupt XP files, physical fault on RAM, Bad connector on HDD, or Connector onto motherboard.
All of the above have also created this type of error in the past ( bad connectors tend to have a great stopping effect on it, even when re-installing XP the screen freezes before the XP screen comes on the second time.)
Sorry, apart from these faults, Kan hierdie dom apie jounie help nie. Nice system, by the way

Post by **Iceblade** » 06 Jun 2004, 16:39

Will check

Xp is still fresh(just formatted)
Will check the rest

Thanx