Quick question

my roommate has a problem with the windows loading screen to hang. the scrolling bar continuously scrolls and windows won't pass the boot screen. he has completed full formats & fresh installs of winxp.

this problem reoccurs every so often and we can't figure out what the cause would be. please list some common causes to this so we can start process of elimination. thanks.

8/28/2007 7:47:52 PM

I'm sure there's a more likely explanation, but my machine hangs and does fruity shit if I boot with a usb drive plugged in.

one for the bucket

8/29/2007 2:13:42 AM

I have seen that happen to dying hard drives. How new is his hard drive? See if he can run some drive fitness tests or something on it.

8/29/2007 8:15:27 AM

can he boot into safe mode all the time, every time?

8/29/2007 8:37:04 AM

Yeah, GraniteBalls is on the right track for what you need to do.

There are thousands and thousands and thousands of things that it could be...you need to do some more troubleshooting before anyone can venture any sort of guess as to what it might actually be.

8/29/2007 10:03:20 AM

check the event log

8/29/2007 11:09:50 AM

this happened to me when my laptop overheated. it would then hang and on restarting, it would hang at the windows loading screen unless i went into safe mode. dialed down the power settings and haven't had the problem since.

8/29/2007 12:46:36 PM

his HD is pretty new, he has a raptor.

and he can boot into safe mode all the time, so what does that mean?

8/29/2007 3:49:52 PM

It means you need to check the RAM. While you -can- run software diagnostics on the RAM, it won't always tell you if you have an error. So, the preferred method is to swap it out for another set and see if you have the same issues.

8/29/2007 3:52:40 PM

if he can boot into safe mode without an issue



i'd say there's a driver issue.




start checking for BIOS updates.

8/29/2007 4:01:11 PM