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I guess this is the only site I can think of
for help. Well my bro's computer running
winXP freezes up during startup.He can login, but when it comes to loading the desktop, only the wallpaper shows up and then that's it.
I tried several things during this 'freeze', and ONLY ctrl + alt + del works. Not even the system restore.
So the only way out I figure is to reformat the drive through the CDROM, which i did - and reinstall XP again, and the whole thing happened AGAIN? (yea i haven't installed any program )
could the problem be on the hardware ? the system was running fine for about 2 weeks and it just went nuts recently. any idea ?
ANYTHING will be appreciated
regards,
zen :-(
Log in as another user or admin... if you can then its most likely something in his start up folder....If you can then try safe mode and do a proper shutdown....
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sorry I tried that already (as admin, in normal mode/safe mode) tried msconfig (from the CTRL+ALT+DEL), and unticked everything from the startup thingie.
oh, btw.. when I log in as admin, it freezes at the wallpaper as well (can't even see any desktop icon, or the taskbar) so I go CTRL+ALT+DEL and see what i can do with it.
:-( guh.
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tried it in safe mode. in safe mode
I can't even open the task manager
with CTRL+ALT+DEL. (and yeah after
this I restarted ... boot from CDROM
login as admin and reformat the drive)
.. and reinstall XPthis thing happened again after 2 days,
though... my brother's com is network
with me and my sis' com through a hub.
could that be the problem ?I myself is running XP with P3 866
384 SDRAM and I never had a single
problem with XP. well, my bro's system
is a mean P4 1.6 gig with 256 DDR ram
(they should've run fine) I mean,
I was expecting my system to bump
into problem like these earlier comared
to his system but oh well.I am thinking to re-install win2K back
to his system. If he prefers that, anyway.
:-( gee. but I am a bit frustated about
this thing, coz I don't even know the
cause of the problem!
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When XP is booting, press F8, enable boot logging and continue to load XP. a bootlob.txt will be created on the root of the drive. open it up, it lists everything that loads, and if it was successful, it insterts it next to the item. find the item that doesnt say that it was successful.... Thats yout culprit. Hope i helped
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boot off your xp cd and go to the recovery concole. tye in chkdsk /r.
it will go to 100%3 times.
type exit.
it will restart.
should boot normal.
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