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Old February 17th, 2005 Top | #1
 
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Hello, I have this little problem that sometimes when restarting Windows and its booting back up at the Windows XP Home screen it freezes and the blue moving bars just stop. Now this only happens to me sometimes and its getting pretty annoying because I have to do a hard restart.

Anyone have any advice? …thx
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any new hardware?

memory might be bad too
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correct me if i'm wrong, but the blue boot bar means you are running winxp sp1, update to sp2, this will probably solve the issue.
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Have you tried to see if it boots into safemode without freezing? F8 during startup.
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Originally Posted by lancer
correct me if i'm wrong, but the blue boot bar means you are running winxp sp1, update to sp2, this will probably solve the issue.

XP home users have a green one until they update to SP2, then its blue
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ohh i am so wrong these days..... please someone, anyone help me
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Originally Posted by perris
any new hardware?

memory might be bad too
naw man, no new stuff. i dont see why it would be a hardware issue cos everything runs great untill the Windows loadup comes....
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edit ur c:/boot.ini

add /sos behind the os infos line.save and exit

when u start again ,u can see details about ur os starting...
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Originally Posted by yoninh
edit ur c:/boot.ini

add /sos behind the os infos line.save and exit

when u start again ,u can see details about ur os starting...
hmm... the OS wont let me save over the c:\boot.ini file.... ?
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ok thats normal what u do is save it as boot2.ini or somthing else, then delete the orignal boot.ini, and then rename the boot2.ini to boot.ini

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ok thats normal what u do is save it as boot2.ini or somthing else, then delete the orignal boot.ini, and then rename the boot2.ini to boot.ini
hey, that was obvious... thx
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Originally Posted by themafia.69
ok thats normal what u do is save it as boot2.ini or somthing else, then delete the orignal boot.ini, and then rename the boot2.ini to boot.ini
or remove the read only check box?

like NT4 server
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