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PC freezes during Boot into XP

Discussion in 'Technology Forum' started by UNCfever, Nov 3, 2003.

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  1. Nov 3, 2003 at 10:02 AM #1
    UNCfever

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    PC freezes up during boot up. I have formatted and now
    have a clean install with all of the updates as well on my
    pc. No other software has been loaded as of yet. During
    bootup my pc Locks up/freezes about 90% of the time. Any
    ideas of what is causing this?

    1.1 Athlon
    256 Ram
    7200 Radeon Video Card
    SB Live Sound Card
    Gigabyte MB
    TDK CDR/RW
    NIC w/Broadband connection
    the rest is standard crap

    I am guessing the VC drivers, but they are current with the latest and have tried a few releases before as well.
     
  2. Nov 3, 2003 at 10:06 AM #2
    DaveW

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    go to ipconfig and see what all is starting on startup.
     
  3. Nov 3, 2003 at 11:58 AM #3
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    I had that problem with Win98. It was the CDRW that was causing it. When I unhooked it, it booted fine. I had a CDrom as well though so I could live without it.
     
  4. Nov 3, 2003 at 12:15 PM #4
    UNCfever

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    Would this be msconfig?
     
  5. Nov 3, 2003 at 12:20 PM #5
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    actually...what you would want to do is narrow down the possibilities....In the computer junkie world it's called a POST test.


    This means, have only the bare essentials for boot up.

    The only thing you should have in there is memory, VC, RAM and leave everything else unhooked. Then if that boots fine till you get to the HD read then those items check fine....then piece by piece add pieces and start booting again...
     
  6. Nov 3, 2003 at 12:24 PM #6
    UNCfever

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    How do you know what order things are booting in?
     
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    It doesn't have to be in any paticular order...once you have a hitch then you know which piece is suspect..
     
  8. Nov 3, 2003 at 1:02 PM #8
    UNCfever

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    Well I will try a few things tonight to see if I can tell which is the problem. I am hoping that I can do something to correct the problem in settings at the startup. I really don't want to have to go out and buy anything for the old system, since I will be ordering the new system this week.
     
  9. Nov 3, 2003 at 8:39 PM #9
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    It freezes during bootup, dumbass.

    It's probably hardware, like builder is suggesting. Set your BIOS back to the defaults.
     
  10. Nov 4, 2003 at 8:57 AM #10
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    fuck you, dumbass. Just because it freezes during bootup doesnt meant its a hardware problem. I've had a couple of pc's that would lock up on registry scan. turned off registy scan and never a problem since.
     
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