All of a sudden: XP not booting for me?

[David Mills]

I turned my computer on this morning and you know how the Windows XP splash
screen comes up right before the login screen? Well, the login screen never
shows up, my monitor goes blank and my monitor goes into standby. Nothing
has changed since the last time I turned my computer off. Does anyone have
any ideas? I have booted into safe mode and tried 3 different restore
points and it still isn't working.

After the XP splash screen goes away, a small little blip appears in the
upper left hand corner for about 1 second and then everything goes black and
my monitor goes into standby mode. Anyone every seen anything like this? I
used it last night and I didn't install anything new.

Thanks for any input.

-DM.

 

[Mike Schmidt]

Have you tried using the XP CD and go into the Recovery Console?

 

[Mhzjunkie]

David Mills spewed out this bit, and i'll scatter a few bits myself:

I turned my computer on this morning and you know how the Windows XP
splash screen comes up right before the login screen? Well, the login
screen never shows up, my monitor goes blank and my monitor goes into
standby. Nothing has changed since the last time I turned my computer
off. Does anyone have any ideas? I have booted into safe mode and
tried 3 different restore points and it still isn't working.

After the XP splash screen goes away, a small little blip appears in
the upper left hand corner for about 1 second and then everything
goes black and my monitor goes into standby mode. Anyone every seen
anything like this? I used it last night and I didn't install
anything new.

Restart your computer in safe mode again. Go to the Device Manager and
uninstall your video card, then reboot. What you are describing happens when
some ****wit cranks the display settings above what the monitor can handle.


--
Mhzjunkie

1 PRINT "Windows XP ERROR"
GOTO 1
END

 

[David Mills]

David Mills spewed out this bit, and i'll scatter a few bits myself:


Restart your computer in safe mode again. Go to the Device Manager and
uninstall your video card, then reboot. What you are describing happens
when some ****wit cranks the display settings above what the monitor can
handle.

I'll try it, but I haven't touched any of my display settings.

 

[Mhzjunkie]

David Mills spewed out this bit, and i'll scatter a few bits myself:

I'll try it, but I haven't touched any of my display settings.

LOL !!!

Lets us know if it works out for you, sir.

--
Mhzjunkie

1 PRINT "Windows XP ERROR"
GOTO 1
END

 

[David Mills]

David Mills spewed out this bit, and i'll scatter a few bits myself:


LOL !!!

Lets us know if it works out for you, sir.

Ok, I will let you know if it works, thanks for the idea......but again, I
haven't changed any display settings in months, so it is strange that it
would cause problems all of a sudden.

 

[Malke]

I turned my computer on this morning and you know how the Windows XP
splash screen comes up right before the login screen? Well, the login
screen never shows up, my monitor goes blank and my monitor goes into
standby. Nothing has changed since the last time I turned my computer
off. Does anyone have
any ideas? I have booted into safe mode and tried 3 different restore
points and it still isn't working.

After the XP splash screen goes away, a small little blip appears in
the upper left hand corner for about 1 second and then everything goes
black and
my monitor goes into standby mode. Anyone every seen anything like
this? I used it last night and I didn't install anything new.

You can get into Safe Mode, though? If yes, then probably it is either
that your monitor's refresh rate has been set too high or there is a
problem with your video card. Go into Safe Mode and do:

Start>Run msconfig [enter]

Click on the BOOT.INI tab and put a check in the box next to /SAFEVIDEO.
Now reboot and see if the machine goes successfully into Regular Mode.
If it does, set your resolution for something you know works with your
video card and monitor. A normal "safe" setting would be something like
1024 x 768 with a refresh rate of 70. This is assuming you have a CRT
and not a flat panel since the refresh rate on the flat panel doesn't
matter. Make sure you go back to msconfig and ucheck the /SAFEVIDEO
before you reboot.

Please report back.

Malke

 

[IgorZ]

Why don't you just restart in VGA mode and see whether that works?
if it does, then somebody did change display settings,

lower resolution and refresh rate

 

[pvine]

I have this exact problem on a desktop with a ASUS ATI 9600 XT video
card. It happens after we have a power failure. First time it
happened I tried using recovery. Then uninstalled the drivers and
reinstalled. As soon as it gets past the logo screen it goes blank. I
gave up and reinstalled the OS. After that I Ghosted the drive. It
happened again and I restored the Ghost image but had the same
problem. This lead me to believe it's something on the card or
motherboard. I found a possible solution on the ASUS site mentioning
to turn off PnP in the BIOS. I did that and it came back on after a
restart. Now we lost power for a 3rd time and I have the same problem
all over again. I'm ready to ditch the video card. HELP!

 

[Malke]

I have this exact problem on a desktop with a ASUS ATI 9600 XT video
card. It happens after we have a power failure. First time it
happened I tried using recovery. Then uninstalled the drivers and
reinstalled. As soon as it gets past the logo screen it goes blank. I
gave up and reinstalled the OS. After that I Ghosted the drive. It
happened again and I restored the Ghost image but had the same
problem. This lead me to believe it's something on the card or
motherboard. I found a possible solution on the ASUS site mentioning
to turn off PnP in the BIOS. I did that and it came back on after a
restart. Now we lost power for a 3rd time and I have the same problem
all over again. I'm ready to ditch the video card. HELP!

A better solution would be for you to buy an Uninterruptible Power
Supply (UPS). You can get them at computer and office supply stores.
The better ones come with a program that will shut down your computer
gracefully when there is a power outage.

Malke

 

[Norman Hunt]

David,

Did you get your problem resolved?

 

[Rebecca]

David,

Did you get your problem resolved?

I'm confident that he is still unable to use it a month later and has given
up.