strange boot up problems

[WinXP Blues]

Hi,

Check your video cable on both end to make sure that they
haven't worked loose.

Sleepless

>-----Original Message-----
>PIII-450, 256 RAM, scsi 160 hard drive, windows xp home
ed.
>Very strange boot up problems, that I can make no sense
of.
>First:
>On first boot (cold) the monitor shows nothing on the
>screen,the screen is black, until it gets to the welcome
>screen. Then, it enters windows normally. Not a real
>problem, but why?
>second:
>When rebooting: shutdown/restart, the computer then
>restarts normally, shows everything (ram check, and
>everything else that would normally show)gets to the
>welcome window, stalls, and monitor goes blank. It does
>not boot into windows, but just hangs.Then, inorder to get
>into window, it needs to be rebooted, brought into safe
>mode, nothing needs to be done there, then reboot from
>within windows shutdown/restart option, and boots into
>windows normally. What can possibly be causing this? I
>have reinstalled windows to see if it would change, but it
>has not. Any ideas? Any suggestions?
>Thanx,
>Larry
>.
>

[Ron]

Larry, I'd also suggest re & re the video driver. As an aside; the initial
blank screen [at cold boot] could be due to monitor not warming up fast
enough to display the POST (?)

Ron