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Windows XP Pro Hangs At Startup
Name: ewang9394 Date: April 15, 2003 at 13:34:35 Pacific OS: Windows XP Pro CPU/Ram: P4 2.4GHz/768
Comment:
I'm currently having a weird problem with Windows XP Pro. Occassionally, it would hang during startup right before the Windows XP Welcome screen. It would load all the scanner and printer drivers in the background because I can hear them but would just stay at a blank blue screen. It's not a blue screen of death, but just the startup screen before the welcome screen. This happens randomly so I dunno what's going on. Can anyone help? Thanks.
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