can't boot

[Seung Hoon Lee]

hi
i got windows xp
and when booting in the
welcome screen it always
gets stuck so i should press
ctrl + alt + del key to boot
but sometimes that also won't work
and it takes a lot to boot
and also sometimes
it takes aprox. 5 hours to boot
and i find that my windows
start menu and the rest of things on the bottom
freezes quite often
i tried to reinstall windows several timez
but didn't work
what can i do?
please help me
thanx

[Dragonteeth]

"Seung Hoon Lee" > wrote in message
...
> hi
> i got windows xp
> and when booting in the
> welcome screen it always
> gets stuck so i should press
> ctrl + alt + del key to boot
> but sometimes that also won't work
> and it takes a lot to boot
> and also sometimes
> it takes aprox. 5 hours to boot
> and i find that my windows
> start menu and the rest of things on the bottom
> freezes quite often
> i tried to reinstall windows several timez
> but didn't work
> what can i do?
> please help me
> thanx
>

Can you boot decently in Safe Mode? Hold the F8-key down after you start a
reboot. At the text-screen, select Safe Mode.
If you haven't seen that mode before, it will look rather strange... but if
it boots alright, that indicates either a corrupt device driver, or a
conflict between drivers.(safe mode boots with no frills, generic drivers)

This just happened to a friend of mine... the cause? She had loaded device
drivers for a soundcard she had installed, but her system was ALSO loading
device drivers for the on-board sound card (some are built-in to the
motherboard) - which she had forgotten to disable.
Once she disabled the on-board drivers... her system booted normally.