Win XP Freezes at Log on Screen!

[Ken]

Hi,
My system freezes at the welcome screen when trying to
log on to any user.Win starts to load but freezes &
my "A" drive (3.5 disk drive) lite stays on.
It also will not start in safe mode.
BUT it will start in Debugging Mode.
I tried a Sys. Restore but it failed so I did a repair
install but still have the same prob.
I've noted that others are having similar problems at log
on, esp. after installing SP1 & it seems that is when I
started having my problems also. For ex. after I did a
repair install it was working OK but when I install SP1 I
immediately began having Problems logging on at welcome
screen. Maybe there was something already there just
waiting for SP1's install to cause the problem!
This seems to happen or I often have Windows problems
after installing & running Visual Studio or Visual
Basic .NET 2002??
I know thousand are using VS/VB.NET with XP with out a
problem but I'm thinking that as it configures it's self
into MY SYSTEM it causes a major conflict. It seems to me
that Microsoft would know that there will be some or many
systems with conflicts and provide solutions for them.
After all its there OS.
I Have all the latest Drives (sound, video etc..)&
Patches.

Hardware:
SOYO SY-K7VTA Pro (Moboard),
AMD 1.3 GHz. Athlon Thunderbird (CPU),
nVidia GeForce2 MX / MX 400 (Video Card),
Turtle Beach's Santa Cruz (Sound Card),
PCTel HSP56 Micromodem (Modem),
Linksys/ Cisco 10/100 (Network Card),
Maxtor 120 GB 7200rpm (Hard Drive)


Software:
Windows XP Pro, ver. 2002, SP1 / 55276-010-1450103-22083,
Office 2003,
Adobe Photoshop 7, Image Ready 7, Acrobat 5, PhotoShop
Album 1,
Partition Magic 8,
Corel Painter 8,
Avast Anti-Virus,
Spybot Search & Destroy,
Microsoft Encarta 2002, Street & Tips 2001,
Executive Software's DisKeeper 5,
Visual Studio Pro 2002,

WHY is it that MICROSOFT doesn't run on MICROSOFT?!!!
Do I need to need to switch to LINUX for important stuff
and business and use Microsoft only for games???

 

[Kelly]

Ken,

Are you presumming or stating that this happened after installing SP1?
After all, it has been out for a great while. There could be many reasons
why this is happening to you, the first one that comes to mind is display
drivers. Updates from any fashion cause this behavior, if this is the case,
do a roll-back.

In the meantime:

Floppy Drive Seeks in Windows XP
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_f.htm#xp_floppy

Computer Stops Responding with a Black Screen When You Start Windows
http://support.microsoft.com/directory/article.asp?ID=KB;EN-US;q314503

Windows XP Stops Responding at the Welcome Screen
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q294/4/27.asp

How to Perform a Clean Boot in Windows XP
How to Use Clean Boot Troubleshooting for Windows XP
How to Troubleshoot By Using the Msconfig Utility in Windows XP
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_conflicts.htm

How to Recover from a Corrupted Registry that Prevents Windows XP from
Starting
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q307545

How to Disable a Service that Prevents Windows XP from Booting
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q244/9/05.asp

Use System Files to Create a Boot Disk to Guard Against Being Unable to
Start Win XP
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_setup.htm

Good luck and if you are needing more help, post back.