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Steve Marshall
All problem resolved with Repair/Install including slow expansion of
explorer tree and/or opening My Computer but I seem to have a separate
problem now........
On a cold boot, I get to the black screen with the XP Professional
banner and the blue dashed line crawler underneath and it freezes the
boot process. I power off and either one or two more repeats of that
process and it finally boots successfully to the desktop.
I have reviewed the Event Viewer for the exact time and this seems to be
happening before that process loads since everything is going according
to plan there with no warnings, errors, etc.
Just installed a new mobo recently (GA-8S648-L) with new DDR-400 RAM but
the machine ran fine for several days burning in new devices. It was
only after I started adding devices (on USB Hub) that the above started
happening.
My next step is to unplug USB devices and see if that cures it - it
reboots fine, BTW; only on a cold boot.
Steve
explorer tree and/or opening My Computer but I seem to have a separate
problem now........
On a cold boot, I get to the black screen with the XP Professional
banner and the blue dashed line crawler underneath and it freezes the
boot process. I power off and either one or two more repeats of that
process and it finally boots successfully to the desktop.
I have reviewed the Event Viewer for the exact time and this seems to be
happening before that process loads since everything is going according
to plan there with no warnings, errors, etc.
Just installed a new mobo recently (GA-8S648-L) with new DDR-400 RAM but
the machine ran fine for several days burning in new devices. It was
only after I started adding devices (on USB Hub) that the above started
happening.
My next step is to unplug USB devices and see if that cures it - it
reboots fine, BTW; only on a cold boot.
Steve