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No desktop after boot
Name: Marcus Date: October 7, 2002 at 07:56:31 Pacific OS: Windows XP Home Edition CPU/Ram: P3
Comment:
I have a HP Omnibook, running Windows XP Home Edition. The computer starts up OK but when it comes to shifting to the windows desktop the screen just goes black, no desktop. The hardrive keeps loading and seems to load OK. Everything works fine in failsafe mode, I've tried running a minimal boot in MSconfig but to no avail. What can be causing this behavior? Any suggestions would be helpful. Thanks! /Marcus
Name: Brown1955 Date: October 7, 2002 at 08:03:23 Pacific
Reply:
Boot to safe mode and set your display setting to the lowest settings listed. It sounds like you need a display driver, but if it works in safe mode, this may get you going.
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Response Number 2
Name: woofman99 Date: October 7, 2002 at 08:05:21 Pacific
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Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - Q320560 Computer Seems to Stop Responding Before the Desktop Is Displayed The information in this article applies to: Microsoft Windows XP Professional Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q320560
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Response Number 3
Name: Marcus Date: October 7, 2002 at 09:06:46 Pacific
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Thanks for your replys guys, I'll try them out.
/Marcus
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Response Number 4
Name: richard Date: October 7, 2002 at 22:53:41 Pacific
Reply:
look for multiple display adapter entries in safe mode and try disabling one at a time and testing rebooting.
also enable vga mode and see if you can see desktop.
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Response Number 5
Name: Marcus Date: October 8, 2002 at 07:49:26 Pacific
Reply:
Hello again. Thanks everybody for the replys. I have found the solution to the problem. The person using the Omnibook had been on a convention where he had been demonstrated a second scrren connected to the computer. After that the problems showed up. The solution was to connect an external monitor and check a display option to revert back to the notebook's monitor. That's all there was to it! Glad I didn't start that format c:\ session!
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