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by adr1817

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Have a windows me, when booting up, it freezes to where you could only see the windows logo. what's the best thing to do.

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by rumna

This may be caused due to driver errors.
Boot in safe mode.
Remove a device at a time.
restart.

by the way, RAM?

by ann777

TEMPORARILY SWITCH TO STANDARD VGA
Also related to video cards and drivers, one of the most successful ?quick fixes? for many people, restoring their shutdown ability when a driver update would not, is the following: In MSCONFIG, click Advanced, then check the box marked VGA 640 x 480 x 16. Click OK twice, and let the computer reboot. When it reboots (in standard VGA mode), return to MSCONFIG, and uncheck the box. Again, reboot.

by ngcmos

Hey There!
First Off it kinda helps to now what kind of periphials you have attached to your system, NIC's, SCSI, USB, etc. Then helps other people, help you trouble shoot. First thing I would look into is hardware. While your system is powered off...unplug any extra's if Window loads then begin re-attaching them one-by-one. If that doesnt work, remove any cards out of your PCI/ISA slots on your motherboard. THen Re-Install them one by one until the trouble is targeted. If it isnt your hardware, you registry might have some issues. Boot off a ME or WIN 98 Boot Disk, an when you get to the prompt.
type
c:\scanreg /restore
and follow instructions
Hope this Helps, Nate

by kmerrillt

When you first turn on the PC and the blue screen comes up, press F1 to get into the BIOS settings. You should be able to press F5 from there to restore default settings. Then press F10 to save and exit. You should be able to boot from there.

by jimbocalrissian

When your computer hangs Hit ctrl+alt+del if the message box generated has a program named Msgsrv32 with a message of "not responding" the only fix I have found is install windows 2000.

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