Computer Problems? Computing.Net has over 1,000,000 posts about all things technology related! Over 90% answered within 24 hours! Click here to start participating now! Also, be sure to check out the New User Guide.
Locks up on boot
Name: Trog Date: April 16, 2003 at 13:45:54 Pacific OS: Win 98 1st edition CPU/Ram: AMD(486) 133mhz 64 mb
Comment:
Whenever I turn on my computer it does the ram count then it sais "Wait" and it locks up. What's wrong?
Name: Trog Date: April 18, 2003 at 11:32:29 Pacific
Reply:
How do I do that?
0
Response Number 3
Name: RayMan Date: April 19, 2003 at 08:07:38 Pacific
Reply:
click the link in my previous post. download mamtest86. when you execute that file it will prompt you for a blank formatted floppy disk to install itself on.
with the floppy still in the drive, reboot. The computer will boot from A: and run memtest.(it doesn't run in windows).
ESC to end and the computer will reboot, remove the floppy disk when it does.
0
Response Number 4
Name: Trog Date: April 22, 2003 at 05:45:20 Pacific
Reply:
Thanks, I'll try that.
0
Response Number 5
Name: Trog Date: April 23, 2003 at 06:08:41 Pacific
Summary: ibm thinkpad a22e locks up on boot up from a cold start. once you restart it works fine. also if you shut down and restart within 15m inutes it also works fine, after that, locks up again on boot up ...
Summary: Thanks Ranchfor the info, I will try the ram idea and video card idea, it is weird though, all 3 OS would lock up on the setup screen. At 1st there was no partition, I created one, set it as active, ...
Summary: Hi, I have the same problem but here's what I have. Athlon 1800XP+ 512MB DDR Pc2100 60gig hdd Sound Blaster PCI 512 ECS K7VTA33 Mobo geforce 4 Mx440 Windows XP Professional I have tried alot of things...
0 
