Boot hangs at device listing

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When I started my machine (XP Home SP2) this morning, the boot routine
stopped at the PCI device listing which displays controller IRQs; the
last listing shown was ACPI controller. After about 45 seconds the
routine resumed and Windows loaded. When I restarted, the same thing
happened. I made no system changes or installations yesterday...just a
normal day of surfing and email. How do I troubleshoot this
hang-up...or should I ignore it?
 
The ACPI manages the power to the computers devices,i would imagine
the controller is going,look for another mb.
 
JimD said:
When I started my machine (XP Home SP2) this morning, the boot routine
stopped at the PCI device listing which displays controller IRQs; the
last listing shown was ACPI controller. After about 45 seconds the
routine resumed and Windows loaded. When I restarted, the same thing
happened. I made no system changes or installations yesterday...just a
normal day of surfing and email. How do I troubleshoot this
hang-up...or should I ignore it?
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It's whatever is loading after the ACPI controller that's causing
problem.

Change cards around, flash your bios, putting in a new battery are
possibilities.

or

go into your bios and look around, change something then change it
back to it's first setting, save changes.
Sometimes it works.
 
I disabled ACPI in the BIOS, rebooted, then enabled ACPI. This seemed
to fix the problem. Thanks for the suggestion.
 
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