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System Freezes at bootup
Name: joshbarry Date: November 5, 2004 at 15:43:56 Pacific OS: XP CPU/Ram: Pentium 4/768
Comment:
Laptop freezes at startup! Everything loads but can't do anything. If i put my mouse over the bottom of screen, ie start button, system clock, just get busy sand clock. Can anyone help
Name: Grok Lobster Date: November 5, 2004 at 16:31:10 Pacific
Reply:
First try booting to Safe Mode and see what happens there. If things work better, download McAffee's stinger.exe and run to remove viruses.
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Response Number 2
Name: Chuck 2 Date: November 5, 2004 at 17:30:33 Pacific
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How to Perform a Clean Boot in Windows XP To help troubleshoot error messages or other issues when you cannot determine the cause of the issue, disable common startup programs, settings, and drivers to eliminate possible software conflicts when you start Microsoft Windows XP. This procedure is known as "clean booting." (can be done by way of Safe-Mode) How to perform advanced clean-boot troubleshooting in Windows XP and that one is a heavy duty article.
Print the articles for reference.
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Response Number 3
Name: Chuck 2 Date: November 5, 2004 at 17:37:46 Pacific
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Forgot to mention, that when the first article says to RESTART, restart into normal Windows.
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