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Guest
XP Pro - current
Behavior is identical during cold Start & Restart.
With standard boot.ini:
1st try freezes during splash screen with horizontal "in progress" bar
(which also freezes). No drive activity. I've left this for more than an
hour with no change.
2nd try after forced power-off starts normally in all regards (after
selecting Normal Startup option from Failed Startup screen).
No variance, always the same behavior.
No Events are logged from the 1st try.
I've turned on boot logging and there are no log entries from 1st try, even
if I go to Safe Mode on 2nd try.
I now have /SOS option in boot.ini:
1st try shows various things loading (too fast to read) then get SOS version
of Splash Screen which identifies OS version. I then get ~5 seconds of drive
activity before freeze.
2nd try appears the same except that disk checking messages appear quickly
on splash screen, reporting that the file systems are okay on the 3 volumes
on my boot disk. Startup proceeds normally.
I have reviewed the Startup process in TechNet articles but I don't find
references to display activity or to boot logging, so I can't determine where
it is beyond the inference that it hasn't gotten to Login.
This condition appeared on a very busy Spetember 6, 2007 during which I was
trying to update my graphics card drivers (ATI) which included installation
of Intel chpid utility. I spent a considerable amount of quality time in
640x480 before I got ATI's Catalyst uninstalled and my displays back. In
consequence of that I am not anxious to restore the system. I freely admit
to hypocrisy as I frequently advise people to back-up after an error rather
than potentially compound it, but I am driven to understand what is happening.
TIA
Behavior is identical during cold Start & Restart.
With standard boot.ini:
1st try freezes during splash screen with horizontal "in progress" bar
(which also freezes). No drive activity. I've left this for more than an
hour with no change.
2nd try after forced power-off starts normally in all regards (after
selecting Normal Startup option from Failed Startup screen).
No variance, always the same behavior.
No Events are logged from the 1st try.
I've turned on boot logging and there are no log entries from 1st try, even
if I go to Safe Mode on 2nd try.
I now have /SOS option in boot.ini:
1st try shows various things loading (too fast to read) then get SOS version
of Splash Screen which identifies OS version. I then get ~5 seconds of drive
activity before freeze.
2nd try appears the same except that disk checking messages appear quickly
on splash screen, reporting that the file systems are okay on the 3 volumes
on my boot disk. Startup proceeds normally.
I have reviewed the Startup process in TechNet articles but I don't find
references to display activity or to boot logging, so I can't determine where
it is beyond the inference that it hasn't gotten to Login.
This condition appeared on a very busy Spetember 6, 2007 during which I was
trying to update my graphics card drivers (ATI) which included installation
of Intel chpid utility. I spent a considerable amount of quality time in
640x480 before I got ATI's Catalyst uninstalled and my displays back. In
consequence of that I am not anxious to restore the system. I freely admit
to hypocrisy as I frequently advise people to back-up after an error rather
than potentially compound it, but I am driven to understand what is happening.
TIA