Boot bar keeps cycling

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When I first boot up for the day. I guess you would call it a cold boot, my
Xp Home SP2 machine boots thru to the windows logo screen, the color gets
stronger and then the bar starts moving. Normally at this point when the
system was well the most this would cycle is 6 times. Now I know that the
number of cycles depends on how many things you have on your machine, but the
other day it cyled 150 times. I then held the power button in until it turned
off. I then can start it again, get the F8 screen and using the start
normally option and be able to start normally. I even re-entered Windows and
I have the same problem. On one of the earlier windows there was a way to
watch the items as they were loaded during bootup. Does anyone know if I can
get my system to do that. All comments would be appreciated.

 

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"Seasick Sailor" <Seasick Sailor@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> When I first boot up for the day. I guess you would call it a cold boot,
> my
> Xp Home SP2 machine boots thru to the windows logo screen, the color gets
> stronger and then the bar starts moving. Normally at this point when the
> system was well the most this would cycle is 6 times. Now I know that the
> number of cycles depends on how many things you have on your machine, but
> the
> other day it cyled 150 times. I then held the power button in until it
> turned
> off. I then can start it again, get the F8 screen and using the start
> normally option and be able to start normally. I even re-entered Windows
> and
> I have the same problem. On one of the earlier windows there was a way to
> watch the items as they were loaded during bootup. Does anyone know if I
> can
> get my system to do that. All comments would be appreciated.

When you start up, hit that f8 key and enable boot logging. Then when you
start, you can read the file.

Also, the problem may already be logged for you. Take a look at the Event
Viewer and see what's stalling.

It could also be a hardware issue, which isn't going to be logged anywhere.
I've seen bad power supplies have this sort of issue, or it could be a
problem with the hard drive. Those aren't all that likely, but I've seen it
happen, so it's possible.

 

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Thank you for your comments. I've followed both of your suggestions the
ntbtlog.txt indicates that certain files weren't loaded. Is this an
indication that there is something wrong and they should have loaded? The
error notices that I found in the event viewer don't seem to be bootup
problems.

"D.Currie" wrote:

>
> "Seasick Sailor" <Seasick Sailor@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:C9312493-AEAA-40B7-843B-705B122EBEE1@microsoft.com...
> > When I first boot up for the day. I guess you would call it a cold boot,
> > my
> > Xp Home SP2 machine boots thru to the windows logo screen, the color gets
> > stronger and then the bar starts moving. Normally at this point when the
> > system was well the most this would cycle is 6 times. Now I know that the
> > number of cycles depends on how many things you have on your machine, but
> > the
> > other day it cyled 150 times. I then held the power button in until it
> > turned
> > off. I then can start it again, get the F8 screen and using the start
> > normally option and be able to start normally. I even re-entered Windows
> > and
> > I have the same problem. On one of the earlier windows there was a way to
> > watch the items as they were loaded during bootup. Does anyone know if I
> > can
> > get my system to do that. All comments would be appreciated.
>
> When you start up, hit that f8 key and enable boot logging. Then when you
> start, you can read the file.
>
> Also, the problem may already be logged for you. Take a look at the Event
> Viewer and see what's stalling.
>
> It could also be a hardware issue, which isn't going to be logged anywhere.
> I've seen bad power supplies have this sort of issue, or it could be a
> problem with the hard drive. Those aren't all that likely, but I've seen it
> happen, so it's possible.
>
>
>

 

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Could be. What's not loading, and what is the last thing that does load
properly?

"Seasick Sailor" <SeasickSailor@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:63A80AE3-E0C4-497C-BC9B-56A90F9C46F9@microsoft.com...
> Thank you for your comments. I've followed both of your suggestions the
> ntbtlog.txt indicates that certain files weren't loaded. Is this an
> indication that there is something wrong and they should have loaded? The
> error notices that I found in the event viewer don't seem to be bootup
> problems.
>
> "D.Currie" wrote:
>
>>
>> "Seasick Sailor" <Seasick Sailor@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
>> message
>> news:C9312493-AEAA-40B7-843B-705B122EBEE1@microsoft.com...
>> > When I first boot up for the day. I guess you would call it a cold
>> > boot,
>> > my
>> > Xp Home SP2 machine boots thru to the windows logo screen, the color
>> > gets
>> > stronger and then the bar starts moving. Normally at this point when
>> > the
>> > system was well the most this would cycle is 6 times. Now I know that
>> > the
>> > number of cycles depends on how many things you have on your machine,
>> > but
>> > the
>> > other day it cyled 150 times. I then held the power button in until it
>> > turned
>> > off. I then can start it again, get the F8 screen and using the start
>> > normally option and be able to start normally. I even re-entered
>> > Windows
>> > and
>> > I have the same problem. On one of the earlier windows there was a way
>> > to
>> > watch the items as they were loaded during bootup. Does anyone know if
>> > I
>> > can
>> > get my system to do that. All comments would be appreciated.
>>
>> When you start up, hit that f8 key and enable boot logging. Then when you
>> start, you can read the file.
>>
>> Also, the problem may already be logged for you. Take a look at the Event
>> Viewer and see what's stalling.
>>
>> It could also be a hardware issue, which isn't going to be logged
>> anywhere.
>> I've seen bad power supplies have this sort of issue, or it could be a
>> problem with the hard drive. Those aren't all that likely, but I've seen
>> it
>> happen, so it's possible.
>>
>>
>>