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Odd early boot screen logo freeze
Name: pinkfloydeffect Date: July 20, 2008 at 23:01:37 Pacific OS: XP PRO x64-bit Edition CPU/Ram: AMD Athlon X2 3.4 GHZ / 4 Product: Alienware Case ONLY (ever
Comment:
You know how the xp logo boot screen "fades from black to the logo" real quickly well, mine freezes before the loading bar moves and before it fully fades into clarity. I manually restart and choose "boot normally" and it works fine the second time every time but this problem came out of nowhere!? And I should be able to boot normally without having to do the second restart! Any thoughts?? ~Thanks
Name: Chuck 2 Date: July 21, 2008 at 04:18:48 Pacific
Reply:
Possible that the harddrive is not running at its normal speed, freezing up or slowing down. Or has quit. My computer took 20 min. to boot the other day. I was watching the HDD activity indicator light, and it would remain on, and not rapidly blinking. Mechanical devices do have problems.
Harddrive manufacturers have software for download for testing HDD.
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Response Number 2
Name: pinkfloydeffect Date: July 21, 2008 at 07:25:11 Pacific
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I will definitely look into that, I just recently purchased this hard drive its a SEGATE 500GB 10,000 RPM SATAII and it runs fine after i restart and "start windows normally" so you really think it could be a hard drive issue? ~Thanks
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Response Number 3
Name: pinkfloydeffect Date: July 21, 2008 at 21:49:34 Pacific
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UPDATE - I ran the Seagate disk utility and checked the disk it checked out GOOD/PASS in all categories so HDD problems have been ruled out! PLEASE HELP!
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