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moonraker
Hi there, As a very lovely Polish young lady at work used to put it "Canna
you 'elp me!!!"
Symptoms
Press start button
Screen appears - American megatrends - Amibios © 2001
AV41P005 P4X333-8235 Intel ( r ) Celeron ( r ) CPU. 2.4o GHz
Checking NVram. Update OK
394944 kb OK - this counting usually freezes, at various random values -
unless I choose to skip memory test or enter Setup.
If I hit escape to skip memory test - it runs on through a couple of screens
listing various drives etc then to a black screen with a white bar runs
across the bottom. It then loads the windows XP logo screen and the bar in
the middle shows the loading process. This loading often freezes and will
not continue.
When it does complete loading the User log on screen appears, so I enter the
password and hit enter and it usually just sits there "saying" loading you
personal setting and goes no further. If I wait too long to enter the user
I.D the keyboard will not work.
On one occasion it did load the desk top but I could not do any thing with
it.
Am now trying to run a memtest.
Since your computer won't boot, get this:
http://www.memtest.org/#downiso
Hi there, OK I have create a floppy with memtest 2.1 as the 4.0 would not
load.
Stuck it in the A:drive and fired up
Have to skip NVRAM memory test
PC runs and the screen shows values streaming down the left hand side:-
AX:0200
BX:0000
CX:0006
DX:0000
EX:1004
Runs for 30 seconds or a minute, and I can see the numbers changing on the
screen, like they are scrolling up.
Then they stop changing, pretty sure that the PC has hung up, although there
is a curser flashing on the right of the bottom line, which just happens to
be ...DX000
What do you think.
you 'elp me!!!"
Symptoms
Press start button
Screen appears - American megatrends - Amibios © 2001
AV41P005 P4X333-8235 Intel ( r ) Celeron ( r ) CPU. 2.4o GHz
Checking NVram. Update OK
394944 kb OK - this counting usually freezes, at various random values -
unless I choose to skip memory test or enter Setup.
If I hit escape to skip memory test - it runs on through a couple of screens
listing various drives etc then to a black screen with a white bar runs
across the bottom. It then loads the windows XP logo screen and the bar in
the middle shows the loading process. This loading often freezes and will
not continue.
When it does complete loading the User log on screen appears, so I enter the
password and hit enter and it usually just sits there "saying" loading you
personal setting and goes no further. If I wait too long to enter the user
I.D the keyboard will not work.
On one occasion it did load the desk top but I could not do any thing with
it.
Am now trying to run a memtest.
Since your computer won't boot, get this:
http://www.memtest.org/#downiso
Hi there, OK I have create a floppy with memtest 2.1 as the 4.0 would not
load.
Stuck it in the A:drive and fired up
Have to skip NVRAM memory test
PC runs and the screen shows values streaming down the left hand side:-
AX:0200
BX:0000
CX:0006
DX:0000
EX:1004
Runs for 30 seconds or a minute, and I can see the numbers changing on the
screen, like they are scrolling up.
Then they stop changing, pretty sure that the PC has hung up, although there
is a curser flashing on the right of the bottom line, which just happens to
be ...DX000
What do you think.