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Having a problem with XP iv not seen before.

Basicly when booting, the system will hang right before the Windows XP logo comes up with the blue loading bar. It just sits at black. Same goes with running it in safe mode. I believe it is a os problem, as Iv run hdd, ram, motherboard and cpu through diagnostics and stress tests, and everything has come back fine. It ran fine, just stopped the other night.

Anyone seen this or have any ideas?

Man it's Windows. The problem could be anything, considering the OS gives so little feedback!

I had similar symptoms in the past and ended up being the fact that Windows refused to boot if there was a CD in the drive. Yes, very weird indeed. But I'm 95% sure that isn't your problem, seeing as there are so many reasons why your OS could possibly refuse to boot.

so far I've gone through a new burner a new hard drive and a fresh install of windows trying to fix that stupid error. It'll just sit there for AAAAGES at the black screen before it gets to windows. Solution? install linux. Seriously, I got nothin, I thought maybe it was my video card being lame & taking a while to get going but I dunno.

installed the 81.85 whql drivers recently? coz they screwed my hdtv 6600gt agp box.

EDIT: eds i do have a issue with the nforce ethernet + nvidia firewall takes ages to load, not sure if your using the nforce 4 ethernet but try disabling it in bios, also you tryed to remove / disable non essental bios items (floppy/com/printer/ide if you use sata...) and pci/pci-e cards?


last edited by 0z at 11:39:26 25/Oct/05

I run linux, but this is my parents machine :)

Parabol, TELL me about it :P

Oz, nah, havnt updated any drivers or patches.

Eds be more specific plz. Nother worst than someone that dose not provided the facts, i.e is the hardware sitting right, has there been any updates latey, etc.

How about ghosting the HDD to a DVD or another drive than blowing away the OS and rebuilding it, and see if the problem still exist within the OS. than if it is, just import the profile and install and other stuff that is required.

last edited by thrax at 22:53:54 24/Oct/05

Give Microsoft a call and they'll fix it for you.

Just reformat and be done with it...

you can allways copy your "c:/windows/reapair/" files to "c:/windows/system32/config/" folder but that will result in loosing all your registry and installed applications (there still loaded just not in registry), its like you just did a fresh install winblows xp, done under windows boot cd in recovery mode.


last edited by 0z at 10:41:45 25/Oct/05

I had same recently, except I had a flashing cursor on black screen. For no reason at all as well. out of the blue. So anyway I pulled out a couple of PCI cards, put em back in, disconnected LAN cables, problem gone ???!!?

Apart from that its XP, maybe reinstall during the next full moon and throw in a human sacrifice just to make sure it dont f*** up. :P