Error message too brief to be read

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I'm trying to help someone. The problem is that on reboot (not initial boot)
an error message appears too briefly to be read. It says something about
"failed to initialise". The system then works OK but he would like to see
this message. It has been suggested that he should use the Pause key but he
hasn't been able to hit it at the right time. He thinks that, somewhere, he
has seen a method of allowing error messages to be displayed for a specified
period but can't remember it. Any ideas, please? XP Home/SP2.
 
Check the system or application log of event viewer.

Start|Run|eventvwr.msc

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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| I'm trying to help someone. The problem is that on reboot (not initial
boot)
| an error message appears too briefly to be read. It says something about
| "failed to initialise". The system then works OK but he would like to see
| this message. It has been suggested that he should use the Pause key but
he
| hasn't been able to hit it at the right time. He thinks that, somewhere,
he
| has seen a method of allowing error messages to be displayed for a
specified
| period but can't remember it. Any ideas, please? XP Home/SP2.
 
TO: S. Sengupta, Mary and Dave Patrick

Thanks for your prompt replies. I will pass the info to the person who has
the problem. Also noted in case I ever have the problem.

Regards,

frith

S.Sengupta said:
Look at the Event Viewer.

'How to view and manage event logs in Event Viewer in Windows XP'
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308427/

regards,
S.Sengupta[MS-MVP]

I'm trying to help someone. The problem is that on reboot (not initial boot)
an error message appears too briefly to be read. It says something about
"failed to initialise". The system then works OK but he would like to see
this message. It has been suggested that he should use the Pause key but he
hasn't been able to hit it at the right time. He thinks that, somewhere, he
has seen a method of allowing error messages to be displayed for a specified
period but can't remember it. Any ideas, please? XP Home/SP2.
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