ONLY STARTS SECOND TIME.....

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Vidar Brekke

Hi!

I run WinXP on a dual boot with Win2000. My machine is a SHUTTLE (little
box), P4, 512Mb RAM with a Maxtor 30Gig HD.

Problems started with Win2000 having start problems, blue screen and
all, and it got worse with time. However, it was generally ok on the
second boot, i.e. after a warm restart (using the reset button).

Then, hoping to fix the problem, I partitioned the drive and installed
WinXP. Initially it was fine, but after applying SP1 it started behaving
the same - start problems. Now it only starts on the second try, and
gives obscure blue-screen errors on the first (one being: ~corrupted
registry file had to be recovered...) Win2000 now doesn't start at all,
never.

I can only think of two options: Virus or Hardware fault. I have scanned
the machine for viruses using Symantec and F-Prot tools - no infection
found. So I have come to the conclusion that it is a hardware fault, but
which component could be causing this? Any Ideas? Memory, HD,
Motherboard or other?

Cheers.
 
Hi

I had the same problem with my shuttle (SG85g4), i seemed to only boot each other time, but upon reinstalling, I discovered that XP took well over 60 secounds to start loading (machine looks dead). I have not figured this out, but i suspect there could be something related to raid controller. Strange thing is that during install the pc boots a couple of times, and this went wery quick...

If anyone has a soultion to this please let us know

Torstein
 
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