Windows message? after boot

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Hello,
I had to change my motherboard and CPU. Upon bootup, and after the BIOS
Post, a very very fast blue screen full of text appears for about 1/3 of
second, and then Windows XP Professional will only start in Safe Mode.
While in safe mode I tried to use Outlook 2003, and it asked me for an
activation code because of detected new hardware which I obtained via
telephone from Microsoft.
I suspect that the very fast blue screen contains similar info, however, it
is impossible to read.
And here is the silly question: How do I slow down the posting enough to
read the text on the blue screen? I tried just about all the funtion keys,
but no results yet.
Any ideas or work arounds will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

Christos
 
After a major hardware change, you need to perform a reinstall of XP so that the OS can recognize the new hardware and create a new hardware profile.

Here are a few sites with information on this procedure.

How to Perform a Windows XP Repair Install:
http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

How Do I Do a "Repair Installation"?:
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_repair_install.htm

How to perform an in-place upgrade (reinstallation) of Windows XP:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315341
 
Ronnie Vernon MVP said:
After a major hardware change, you need to perform a reinstall of XP so that the OS can recognize the new hardware and create a new hardware profile.

Here are a few sites with information on this procedure.

How to Perform a Windows XP Repair Install:
http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

How Do I Do a "Repair Installation"?:
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_repair_install.htm

How to perform an in-place upgrade (reinstallation) of Windows XP:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315341
--

Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User
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Thank you Ronnie, I will use this procedure, however I would like to really
see the message that XP is posting. Again, it is going too fast, but I
believe that it would not be a message - and such a long one - from the
system if it was not ment to be read. I beleive that knowing what
explanations the system gives in the message, will be usefull about taking
further action. So how would I slow down windows to read this message?

Thank you,

Christos GS
 
Christos

A blue screen is a "STOP" error message and most of the text message is generic. Even though the message is only on the screen for a few seconds, if you can concentrate on the top left of the screen then you can usually determine what error the BSOD is referring to by going to the following page and looking up the last 2 characters of the first group of alpha numeric characters.

The top line of the BSOD should look similar to this line.

**STOP: 0x000000D1 (0x00000000, 0xF73120AE, 0xC0000008, 0xC00000000)

If you can simply read the "D1" then you can determine what the STOP message is referring to.

Troubleshooting Windows STOP Messages:
http://www.aumha.org/win5/kbestop.htm

Let me know what you find.
 
Christos GS said:
Thank you Ronnie, I will use this procedure, however I would like to really
see the message that XP is posting. Again, it is going too fast, but I
believe that it would not be a message - and such a long one - from the
system if it was not ment to be read. I beleive that knowing what
explanations the system gives in the message, will be usefull about taking
further action. So how would I slow down windows to read this message?
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1. Look in Event Viewer for information about the message.
Right-click on "My Computer", select Manage, and expand the Event
Viewer category to show the subcategories. Browse through each
subcategory looking for error records with a date and time stamp that
matches the blue screens. Double-click on an error record to see the
details of that error.

or

2. Open Control Panel - System - Advanced and click on the Settings
button in the Startup and Recovery (bottom) section. In the Startup
and Recovery window click on the checkbox for "Automatically restart"
to clear it then click on Apply and OK as needed to exit.

Good luck

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP (1997 - 2006)
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

"Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference
has never been in bed with a mosquito."
 
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