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Computer Won't Boot
Name: iamwec Date: March 3, 2009 at 14:41:52 Pacific OS: Microsoft Windows XP Professional CPU/Ram: 2.392 GHz / 766 MB Product: Dell / DIMENSION 2400 Subcategory: General
Comment:
My computer won't boot. Well, it will, just not past the Windows XP Splash Screen. It half-fades the XP splash screen and hangs. I cannot start it in safemode or with the last good configuration. I know there is a way to use System Restore, I am just not sure how, otherwise I would have ried that first. Thanks!
Name: iamwec Date: March 3, 2009 at 14:55:47 Pacific
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UPDATE: After surfing the web for a while, I found about the recovery console on the Windows XP CD. I tried loading it and from the time that I put the CD in to the time it took for it to load took over fifteen minutes. Is there just something wrong with my BIOS?
Name: aegis1 Date: March 3, 2009 at 16:10:51 Pacific
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I had that happem to me once. Some setting in the bios got tweaked somehow, and caused the memory to slow down to a snails pace. Running memtest86 was incredibly slow. That's when I reset the bios and it cleared up the problem.
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