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Xp Home Won't load. Help!
THis one has me puzzled. I recently pieced together a
second system for my wife to us. I install XP Home just fine and even got some of the updates install. When I reboot (without shutting the system down) it come back on just fine. But if I shutdown (power off) and come back like a hour later.... it shows the splash screen and after the lights move a little it stalls out completely. I have tried the restore system console on the Xp disk and to no avail. Anyone have any ideas? |
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Xp Home Won't load. Help!
Go to the BIOS and look for "Hard disk pre delay" or similar.
Whatever the time is set, increase it a notch or 2. This will give the hard drive a little more time to come up to speed. -- Jupiter Jones [MVP] http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/ "Squiggy" wrote in message ... THis one has me puzzled. I recently pieced together a second system for my wife to us. I install XP Home just fine and even got some of the updates install. When I reboot (without shutting the system down) it come back on just fine. But if I shutdown (power off) and come back like a hour later.... it shows the splash screen and after the lights move a little it stalls out completely. I have tried the restore system console on the Xp disk and to no avail. Anyone have any ideas? |
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Xp Home Won't load. Help!
Yeah I tried that and no go. Man this is getting
frustrating. -----Original Message----- Go to the BIOS and look for "Hard disk pre delay" or similar. Whatever the time is set, increase it a notch or 2. This will give the hard drive a little more time to come up to speed. -- Jupiter Jones [MVP] http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/ "Squiggy" wrote in message ... THis one has me puzzled. I recently pieced together a second system for my wife to us. I install XP Home just fine and even got some of the updates install. When I reboot (without shutting the system down) it come back on just fine. But if I shutdown (power off) and come back like a hour later.... it shows the splash screen and after the lights move a little it stalls out completely. I have tried the restore system console on the Xp disk and to no avail. Anyone have any ideas? . |
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Xp Home Won't load. Help!
Still sounds like a hardware issue.
Set the hard disk Pre Delay to the maximum if you haven't. Power off, open case and reseat all cards and cables. Double check the jumpers on the hard drive. Do you have a spare hard drive you can install again to help verify it is not a hard drive issue? -- Jupiter Jones [MVP] http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/ wrote in message ... Yeah I tried that and no go. Man this is getting frustrating. -----Original Message----- Go to the BIOS and look for "Hard disk pre delay" or similar. Whatever the time is set, increase it a notch or 2. This will give the hard drive a little more time to come up to speed. -- Jupiter Jones [MVP] http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/ "Squiggy" wrote in message ... THis one has me puzzled. I recently pieced together a second system for my wife to us. I install XP Home just fine and even got some of the updates install. When I reboot (without shutting the system down) it come back on just fine. But if I shutdown (power off) and come back like a hour later.... it shows the splash screen and after the lights move a little it stalls out completely. I have tried the restore system console on the Xp disk and to no avail. Anyone have any ideas? . |
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Xp Home Won't load. Help!
Still sounds like a hardware issue.
Set the hard disk Pre Delay to the maximum if you haven't. Power off, open case and reseat all cards and cables. Double check the jumpers on the hard drive. Do you have a spare hard drive you can install again to help verify it is not a hard drive issue? -- Jupiter Jones [MVP] http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/ wrote in message ... Yeah I tried that and no go. Man this is getting frustrating. -----Original Message----- Go to the BIOS and look for "Hard disk pre delay" or similar. Whatever the time is set, increase it a notch or 2. This will give the hard drive a little more time to come up to speed. -- Jupiter Jones [MVP] http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/ "Squiggy" wrote in message ... THis one has me puzzled. I recently pieced together a second system for my wife to us. I install XP Home just fine and even got some of the updates install. When I reboot (without shutting the system down) it come back on just fine. But if I shutdown (power off) and come back like a hour later.... it shows the splash screen and after the lights move a little it stalls out completely. I have tried the restore system console on the Xp disk and to no avail. Anyone have any ideas? . |
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