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by msimone69

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Hello All -

Installed Windows XP Pro on a new system this afternoon. Install went fine, but after installation the first boot had problems. Everything looks fine through the splash screen (the one that says Windows XP with the small blue progress bar). However, after that screen it goes to black and stays there forever, or at least 45 minutes. Restarting the system didn't help. Does anybody have any suggestions as to what could be the cuase of the problem?

Any help would be sincerelyappreciated,

Mike Simone

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by dmiles

Make sure that you have the correct driver for you video card,try downloading the XP or 2000 drivers from video card manufacturers web site and see if this will help

Then you should also check to make sure that you donot have any bad memery in system,take out and reinstall,one module at a time for dimm

by thechas

I fought this problem for several months with several different PCs and video cards.

Turned out, that my bench monitor does not support the 'default' XP refresh rate.

You can try a different (newer) monitor, and after you complete setup, you should be able to switch back to the other monitor.

Another work-around, I used was to swap in different chipset video cards.
If I started out with a Nvidia, I swapped in a S3, or ATI.

Chas

by tg2

have you tried booting safemode or logging and checking the startup log?

safe mode is still there folks.. it didn't go no where, it just doesn't prompt you..

you can try the CTRL key (hold all during boot) or you can try pressing the F8 key repeatedly after the initial BIOS boot message starts to go off the screen.

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