- Apr 7, 2006
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Ok so I recently built a system...Athlon 64 3700, Abit mobo,Geforce 7600, A gig of pc3200 and I'm just running an oem xp home. My problem is that Every so often I will install something, nothing wierd, it will ask to reboot so that changes will take effect and then when the windows xp logo boot screen appears it sits there, never going any further. My first resort is to boot with "last known good settings". This has worked a few times. If that fails I will do system revovery and go back to before the suspect installation occured. If that fails I run xp setup and repair windows. I"m now at the repair windows stage. Actually the first and only other time I had to repair windows I didn't think of trying those other things. But none of that is working this time around and it also makes it more difficult when it has been a day or two since the last time the pc was restarted or shut down, lending for more time and a greater amount of things that has occured since everything was last working fine. This may be why I am having difficulty finding what has changed.
Things that I have installed before that have caused this to happen include Real Rhapsody (subscription music) and I think it had to do with installing a windows runtime driver thing. Also shortly after the "birth" of my pc I was installing software that came with my components like my motherboard drivers and stuff that came with my graphics card. When I installed some software that came with my maxtor HD it told me that xp wouldn't recognize drives over 130 something gigs and asked me if I would like it to fix that. I clicked yes even though it seemed that windows was recognizing the 300 gigs fine. It needed to reboot to alter these settings of course and then came the first incident of the problem I have been describing. What system files is it changing that would cause this? I've never seen this with any of my previous pc's before. Essentially when it hits the logo screen you hear the HD for a moment, then it stops, the load bar continues to move but nothing happens. In some instances the animated loading bar freezes for a while. When things are working fine it normally sits on that screen for no more than 4 seconds so it usually becomes readily apparent when it isn't going to boot.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Things that I have installed before that have caused this to happen include Real Rhapsody (subscription music) and I think it had to do with installing a windows runtime driver thing. Also shortly after the "birth" of my pc I was installing software that came with my components like my motherboard drivers and stuff that came with my graphics card. When I installed some software that came with my maxtor HD it told me that xp wouldn't recognize drives over 130 something gigs and asked me if I would like it to fix that. I clicked yes even though it seemed that windows was recognizing the 300 gigs fine. It needed to reboot to alter these settings of course and then came the first incident of the problem I have been describing. What system files is it changing that would cause this? I've never seen this with any of my previous pc's before. Essentially when it hits the logo screen you hear the HD for a moment, then it stops, the load bar continues to move but nothing happens. In some instances the animated loading bar freezes for a while. When things are working fine it normally sits on that screen for no more than 4 seconds so it usually becomes readily apparent when it isn't going to boot.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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