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  • March 3, 2005 at 5:03 pm #2176705

    XP Boot Hangs

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    by bettergame · about 17 years, 2 months ago

    I have a laptop, HP ZE5300 2.4ghz, 512mb RAM, 40gig HD, Windows XP Home. I have not added any hardware or software recently, and I run the laptop daily. The problem I am having is I shutdown my laptop normally, and now when I attempt to boot it up it hangs. My background bmp shows up and the start-up sound plays, but that is all. None of the GUI shows up, and all I can do is access Taskmanager. I have tried all of the boot options with the same results. Any help would be appreciated.

    Bruce

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    • March 3, 2005 at 10:17 pm #3330422

      Reply To: XP Boot Hangs

      by oz_media · about 17 years, 2 months ago

      In reply to XP Boot Hangs

      Can you not get in in Safe Mode?

      It sounds like a graphics chipset/driver issue, judging by the specs, I will guess it’s still under warranty.

    • March 4, 2005 at 5:13 am #3330017

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      by blackcurrant · about 17 years, 2 months ago

      In reply to XP Boot Hangs

      Hi

      Try this: Press CTRL+ALT+DEL to bring up Task Manager, click File>New Task (Run…), and type explorer.exe then click OK. If that does not work try typing C:\Windows\explorer.exe. This command should enable the display of the desktop items.

      Otherwise, try safe mode as suggested above.

      Good luck

    • March 4, 2005 at 7:25 am #3329954

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      by jamesrl · about 17 years, 2 months ago

      In reply to XP Boot Hangs

      I have seen viruses that impact having explorer.exe execute on startup. The one I had did not impact explorer when starting in safe mode. I downloaded stinger(some anti-virus software doesn’t work well in safe mode) which is a standalone anti-virus tool from Network Associates/Macafee and was able to clean it out, reboot, and magically explorer launched fine.

      If this is not an option you may want to look at creating a boot CD – there are several sites on the net which tell you how.

      James

    • March 6, 2005 at 8:09 pm #3328816

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      by chanmkr · about 17 years, 2 months ago

      In reply to XP Boot Hangs

      if y have xp instollable try repair option
      or with command prompt give command
      sfc /scannow it will ask the xp cd
      hope this will work

    • March 8, 2005 at 1:32 am #3331900

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      by bettergame · about 17 years, 2 months ago

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      I guess you did not understand. I tried to start windows in all boot modes. All with the same results. I tried a boot CD with a mcafee and a couple of other virus scans, and none of them found any.

    • March 8, 2005 at 1:33 am #3331899

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      by bettergame · about 17 years, 2 months ago

      In reply to XP Boot Hangs

      Tried to manually start explorer through taskmanager, to no avail

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