Windows XP won't start properly (safe mode only)

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Bart

Two days ago upgraded from Windows ME to XP, and the
system seemed to work fine following the upgrade.

Then yesterday, when I powered up, the XP boot sequence
would stop, and a blue screen would flash containing some
text I couldn't read since it was only there for a
fraction of a second.

I then got the screen offering the 5 options:

start in safe mode
start in safe mode with networking
start in safe mode command prompt
last known good configuration
start windows normally

Neither the "last good configuration" nor "normally"
option worked. I culd boot in the safe mode, and I tried
the various diagnostic options from help and support menu:

- system restore didn't work
- disabling start up options & win.ini, sys.ini etc.
didn't work either.

I basically went through all the options until I got to
the one suggesting uninstall XP, which is where I stopped.

As I had to update drivers etc. to use XP, I am concerned
that rolling back to ME may not help.

Has anyone seen this before? It's weird that it worked OK
one day, but then wouldn't work the next day.

Any suggestions would be appreiated.

Thanks!
 
have you had a look in device manager once you're in safe
mode? It sounds like it might be a hardware issue. Check
you have all the latest xp drivers for your hardware.

Jamie
www.kitten-x.com
 
Thanks for the tips.

Removing the automatic reboot allowed me to see the stop
error 0xC2 on the blue screen.

I'll post another message to the newsgroup requesting help
on resolving that one, since the contents of 4 parameters
don't match what the MS technical info says.

Bart
 
When I was working on a Win 9X box, I checked the boot.log. The last
driver loaded before the crash was usually the faulty one. Don't know
if XP keeps a boot log.
 
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