Win xp, turn it on and I see the black & white screens telling me about hd info and I am seeing something about ide conductor 80, it goes to fast for me to see. Anyway it shuts down at different times. I cannot get it to windows. This is a cutom built machine. One thing I did notice is when I tunr the comp on all fans start to turn other than the Power Supply fan. Should this turn on as soon as there is power to the computer ?
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My computer shutdown and on boot up it hangs at the black screen showing the white bar at the bottom. I have Windows 98 and 2000 on my computer and neither will boot up from C:, CDROM, or StartUp/BootUp disks. When I try to boot up from the Windows 2000 boot up disk it sometimes will not get passed the blue screen showing 'Windows 2000 setup. Once or twice it has shown some functions in the bar at the bottom of the page. I have tried to boot up using Windows 98 start up disk but most times it hangs at C:. Last night it did open Windows 98 but would not let me reinstall 2000 or do a repair. It now is hanging in both OS. I am told it could be my memory...but how do I check? Upon start up my memory check shows all is okay. I have ran the utility disk for my hard drive and it says all is okay. Before I invest in new memory is there anything else I should check or try? My computer is older and the memory is quite expensive.
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View 10 Replies View Relatedlast night my electric ran out suddenly...this doesnt usually happen 'cause i try to keep it all up to date (key meters for ya) When i turned my comp back on it went to the Black screen with White text, you know the one with Start Windows Normally.Start in Safe Mode etc.Well either way when i choose one of those, i get a blue screen of death appearing, can't quite remember what it said now, 'cause i am at a friend house at the moment, but i rang some tech support guy and he said my ROM had crashed, i've never heard anything like this before, so i am hoping you guys will know whats wrong, when i get back later i will find out what the blue screen has on it and post it here, but i know when the electric ran out it seriously messed something up...
I don't know how to fix it, and well if i have to re-install windows, then i'll just have to, but theres usually some other way.
After booting Win XP Home I get a Black Screen with a whit mouse cursor.I have tried to reboot in safe-mode-no success.
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View 7 Replies View RelatedI never thought that I, who can usually troubleshoot problems on my own, would be posting this, but here I am I have a Dell 8400 computer that is about 6 months old. Recently, I tried to install Debian Linux onto a spare IDE hard drive that I had. I did so, and rebooted to run off of my Windows SATA drive after I had installed linux to the IDE drive. I had to leave the house, but when I came back, a black, blank screen greeted me. It had been over two hours and Windows normally boots in less then a minute tops. I resarted, booted off of the correct hard drive, got the NTLDR prompt with the correct boot.ini information and selected the option to boot WIndows XP Normally (my other option is a /safeboot). Black Screen Again! I know that my files are still on the drive, as I can boot into Debian and mount the drive and everything shows up fine and can be accessed. I also can read files fine by booting off of a UBC4Win or BartPe disk. The power supply, videocard, and heatsink fans all are running fine, so the issue is most likely a driver issue.
View 6 Replies View RelatedAfter i start my computer, everything goes fine until the Windows XP boot screen. It screen appears for about 3-4 seconds, than it stops thinking. After that I get a black screen for about 5 minutes. Than it finnaly boots. Anyone who can help this problem?
View 14 Replies View RelatedWhen I boot up I get a black screen with the following error message: ISASS.EXE failed to initialize properly. 0xc0000006. Click ok to terminate the application.When I click ok the message goes away and everything freezes with a black screen.
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View 1 Replies View RelatedI've just got an old XP machine out of storage, and gone to boot it for the first time in about a month. It's a dual boot with 98 on it which is never used.The boot process begins, seems to go through the correct startup procedure and detects all 3 drives. It goes through the BIOS startup ( the motherboard has LED's which show FF, I understand that this means the MB has completed the BIOS startup). It then moves to the 'choose your OS' page where you select the OS to boot. After the timeout completes, the screen goes dark, and nothing else happens. The PC keeps running, but nothing else happens. I've left it for 10 mins, and there is no change.
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View 14 Replies View RelatedA few weeks ago i had a problem with my computer where it would boot up until the XP logo with the blue scrolling bar, where it would freeze. I tried everything until i had no other choice but to format and re-install windows. Since this my computer has been very slow starting and increasingly so over the past week or so. After a defrag a couple of days ago it has pretty much gone haywire.I repeatedly got explorer error messages followed by dr watson debugger errors. Other problems include seemingly random restarts and general slowness after booting. Upon starting it this morning, it gets past the xp logo but then just displays a black screen. If i press space it asks me to select a hardware profile but this just does the same as previously mentioned. Also the hard drive light on the case is on constantly, as if to indicate that it is doing something.
I cannot boot into safe mode, as the system freezes at 'Mup.sys'. There is not much that i can do seeing as i can't get into windows. I also do not own a windows xp cd as my computer is a HP and did not come with an xp disk. i do however have a copy of their recovery disk, but i want to avoid using this as it will only wipe all my data which i do not want to lose.I am beginning to think it is the motherboard. any thoughts? temperature is at about 78 C at the moment, which sems about normal. both fans seem to be running as normal.
This is really BAD. I've never heard of this happening quite like this, but here it goes:XP will NOT boot at all. There is no sign of anything on the screen whatsoever. I can't get into safe mode, nor use a bootdisk as far as I can tell. I cannot get any control through the keyboard or mouse, apparently. It's as if the computer is not connected to the monitor. I bought this computer from a friend one year ago. He is knowledgable, and had cleaned it up quite well. It had XP installed as well as the usual stuff like IE5/IE6, Mozilla, Adobe, Zone Alarm, etc. He had 2 HDDs installed, partitioned into 5 drives, for a total of almost 175 GB. Athalon 2100 CPU, 512 RAM (IIRC), Audigy 2 Platinum SoundCard
View 11 Replies View RelatedI have an Intel DG31PR with 1 GB memory and Windows XP Home. When I turn the computer on the Intel logo and BIOS 2 settings appear then the screen goes back with a flashing cursor at the top left of the screen . I have to reboot several times before I can login. How do I stop this from happening?
View 3 Replies View RelatedWhen i go to boot a pc(my friends), it come up and shows the emachines logo screen then it shows the windows xp loading screen but then the screen goes black and nothing happens.so i restart it and a screen comes up that says the CMOS and Video BIOS are shadowed.i treid removing the battery from the motherboard for 5 mins and still same problem.
View 1 Replies View Relatedwhen I boot the computer it comes up with a black screen , white lettering and it says select startup system to start there are 2 choices ( help and Microsoft windows XP ) and there is a timer counting down allowing me 30 seconds to make a choice using the arrow keysIf I select windows XP the computer goes through the boot sequence and windows starts.If I let it time out or select the "help" It takes me to a second screen that has several options
View 12 Replies View RelatedI cannot start up XP. When I do a black screen comes up to try and boot up in other modes,( safe, normal, with previous configuration etc). None works. I went to BIOS message and it states an IDE driver for Fasttrack is missing/ not connected?
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View 4 Replies View RelatedA few years ago, my P3 733/GeForce 256 system running Windows XP stopped booting up. I would see the logo screen, the bar would go almost all the way across, then the screen would go black and the monitor went into standby mode. Attempts to repair my installation, and even clean installs didn't work. The RAM is fine, the video card appears to be fine... I can't find any hardware problems
View 4 Replies View RelatedMy computer has been acting screwy. While i have been playing a game my screen would freeze and black out, or just suddently black out.so i would have to shut it off through the back switch. this was happening for about a week. This problem happened again last night only this time it wont let me boot back into windows. it will boot up to the windows logo loading screen and restart, after this restart it will tell me windows did not boot properly and ask to continue with safe mode with networking, and console.(still rebooted with all choices) and windows normaly (rebooted) and windows with last safest configuration (still rebooted). occasionaly it will get to scandisk, after the scandisk it will lock up or reboot, if it gets passed scandisk without rebooting it gives me a blue screen
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Only now the windows build info in sfae mode reports SP1 (originally didi not as the computer was supplied with XP before SP1) I am at a loss to know what to do to get the machine wordking without a refomat of the hard disk, whcih will destroy all my data, and my partners stuff too - mostly not backed up, as usual.
I've recently purchased an HP G50 laptop, and decided to wipe off Vista and install XP - I did this with a few laptops before, no problem. However this laptop is proving to be a real headache. It won't boot from the Windows XP install CD at all The furthest I get is at the "Press any key to boot from CD" prompt, then the screen stays black. I booted without the hard drive to see if this was causing the issue, but the problem persisted. The CD had no problem booting on 4 other machines. I tried a different CD and that didn't make the problem go away. The laptop will boot any Linux install/live cd I shoot at it, yet it refuses to boot the Windows XP install CD.
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