First post, by jjim
I have the following system
win xp pro
pentium 4 2.66
512 ram
geforce 4 mx440
Hard drive in 2 partitions : c and e
sblive 5.1
vdm sound 2.04 with update and launcher
latest drivers for all
I have found xp much more stable and with no bsod's like my old 98 system.I have never had a problem on start up until yesterday:
I had spent most of the day reading through these forums and links from them and installing and uninstalling different glide wrappers.I had performed a virus scan in the morning with the latest norton antivirus dats installed- all ok.At the end of the day alll was well.
On startup the next day my computer froze at the blue "windows is starting up " (just before the welcome screen). I tried rebooting several times with the same result- locking up at the same screen.The omly way i could get my computer running was to run norton ghost and load a restore ghost image stored on my second partition.
Please could someone try and answer the following:
1. Any idea why this happened and what may have caused it?
2. If this happens again is there a way to get past the frozen screen?
3. I have an xp boot disc - which i believe boots in to pc- dos. using this i get a black sreen with the a: prompt. If i use this how do i load windows from the a: prompt i.e. how do you start windows using the boot disc?
Any help would be really appreciated.
thanks