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windows won't fully boot just logo
Name: JB Date: December 17, 2003 at 19:14:06 Pacific OS: win me CPU/Ram: amd/256
Comment:
When turning on computer it just gets to the win me logo screen and won't go any further. Before that it would start up but then suddenly freeze and restart. I haven't had a chance to have a look to see if the fans are running since it's a friends computer but I want to make sure. I know all the possible problems before I got look at it. I am thinking possibly HDD, cpu fan. The computer is a 4 year old gateway think is an amd athlon 900mhz. What do you guys think.
Name: Dave02 Date: December 17, 2003 at 20:50:36 Pacific
Reply:
I think you should check out the obvious first of course, just like you mentioned. But alot of times newly added software or hardware drivers can do this. I would first try to go in under safe mode and do a System Restore. That may cure the whole problem for you and then try to find out what was recently added that caused it to play up. Start/Programs/Accessories/System tools/System Restore. If that doesn't do it then I would start eliminating hardware piece by piece. Start with RAM and CD drives, and move on from there.
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