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by rngara

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ihave a P4 PC THAT WHEN I TRY TO START IT UP, SOMETIMES IT BOOTS TO THE LOG IN SCREEN AND HANGS THERE IF I TRY TO RESTART IT IMMEDIATELY IT WILL HANG WHLST PERFORMING THE POWER ON SELF TEST, OR WILL NOT SWITCH ON

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by dmiles

If the PC hangs while booting it may be a problem loading the video driver,check to make sure that you hae the correct driver to support Windows XP

by hsilva3

Remove all PCI Cards except the Video Card (if it is a PCI one)

If this solves your problem then the problem is with one of the PCI Cards

IF NOT

Check Video Card, reseat first, cross check with another if it does not resolve the issue.

Check Memory Module(s), if the system has more than one memory module then remove one and leave only one in it and then boot the machine. If this helps your problem then it is the memory that is causing the machine to freeze.

Sometimes Power Supply Units cause machines to freeze up so you may also want to crosscheck this with another good working Pentium 4 Power supply.

Also CD ROM drives cause machines to freeze up on Windows, so you should disconnect this to see if it corrects the problem.

In order to detect what the problem is, you should analyze the actions that took place shortly before the problem surfaced.

I hope that the write up has helped you.

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