Problem Rebooting

[Alias]

I have a computer with XP Home on it and after the computer has been on for
awhile, it hangs on the WinXP splash screen and sometimes, after a minute or
two, it will go into Windows, other times it just hangs forever. I recently
installed a 128MB MSI Nvidia video card. Could that be the culprit?

XP Athlon 2800, 512MB RAM.

Thanks!

Alias

 

[Guest]

Chances are that you have a dirty flag in the boot record and this causes
excessive load time by hanging at the welcome screen and waiting for a
certain set of initiatives to occurr and they don't. Sometimes an error box
will appear but is hidden by the welcome screen. In most cases this can
simply be fixed by running chkdsk /r . That will clear any dirty flags in the
Boot record. You can either go>start\run and type in chkdsk /r or go.start\my
computer and right click on your main drive, usually C:/ and then click
properties and then click the tools tab and then click error checking and put
a check mark in the next two boxes that appear. Then click ok. You will be
told that it can't do the disk checking at this point as the system need
exclusive access and would you like to check the disk at the next reboot.
Choose yes and then reboot and let it run. This may take 15-20 minutes to
complete, depending on how dirty your system is. Post back if you need more.
TTFN.

 

[Tom]

I have a computer with XP Home on it and after the computer has been on for
awhile, it hangs on the WinXP splash screen and sometimes, after a minute
or two, it will go into Windows, other times it just hangs forever. I
recently installed a 128MB MSI Nvidia video card. Could that be the
culprit?

XP Athlon 2800, 512MB RAM.

Thanks!

Alias

Could be, have you taken it out to see if you boot up faster? Check the
event viewer for any issues. If removing the card stops this issue, try
placing the card in another slot, just to be sure that maybe the slot may be
bad first.

 

[Alias]

Could be, have you taken it out to see if you boot up faster? Check the
event viewer for any issues. If removing the card stops this issue, try
placing the card in another slot, just to be sure that maybe the slot may
be bad first.

I only have one AGB slot. Originally, the MB came with an onboard video
card.

Alias

 

[Malke]

I only have one AGB slot. Originally, the MB came with an onboard
video card.

IIRC, there is an issue with one of the Nvidia "helper" programs. First
make sure you have the latest drivers from Nvidia - don't just use the
ones from the cd that came with the card. If updating the drivers
doesn't help, use msconfig to stop the Nvidia Control Center (or
whatever it calls itself) from starting and see if that helps.

Malke

 

[Alias]

IIRC, there is an issue with one of the Nvidia "helper" programs. First
make sure you have the latest drivers from Nvidia - don't just use the
ones from the cd that came with the card. If updating the drivers
doesn't help, use msconfig to stop the Nvidia Control Center (or
whatever it calls itself) from starting and see if that helps.

Malke

I have the latest drivers. I will try that. I might mention that I found
over 2000 fragmented files on the D drive (Disk 1, Vol 2) and on the G drive
(Disk 2, Vol 1). I am defragging that and will see if I find anyting in
MSCONFIG after it's done.

Alias

 

[Alias]

IIRC, there is an issue with one of the Nvidia "helper" programs. First
make sure you have the latest drivers from Nvidia - don't just use the
ones from the cd that came with the card. If updating the drivers
doesn't help, use msconfig to stop the Nvidia Control Center (or
whatever it calls itself) from starting and see if that helps.

Malke

Nvcpl was it and now it boots wonderfully. If you lived in Valencia, Spain,
I would buy you a beer.

Alias

 

[Alias]

Nvcpl was it and now it boots wonderfully. If you lived in Valencia,
Spain, I would buy you a beer.

Alias

Spoke too soon. It started happening again so I looked for new drivers,
there were some, but Windows said they weren't digitally signed. I installed
them anyway and the problem still persists. The weird thing is from a cold
boot, there's never a problem, only a warm boot.

Alias

 

[Alias]

Chances are that you have a dirty flag in the boot record and this causes
excessive load time by hanging at the welcome screen and waiting for a
certain set of initiatives to occurr and they don't. Sometimes an error
box
will appear but is hidden by the welcome screen. In most cases this can
simply be fixed by running chkdsk /r . That will clear any dirty flags in
the
Boot record. You can either go>start\run and type in chkdsk /r or
go.start\my
computer and right click on your main drive, usually C:/ and then click
properties and then click the tools tab and then click error checking and
put
a check mark in the next two boxes that appear. Then click ok. You will be
told that it can't do the disk checking at this point as the system need
exclusive access and would you like to check the disk at the next reboot.
Choose yes and then reboot and let it run. This may take 15-20 minutes to
complete, depending on how dirty your system is. Post back if you need
more.
TTFN.

Tried that. No joy.

Alias

 

[Malke]

Spoke too soon. It started happening again so I looked for new
drivers, there were some, but Windows said they weren't digitally
signed. I installed them anyway and the problem still persists. The
weird thing is from a cold boot, there's never a problem, only a warm
boot.

Alias

If you are getting problems when the hardware warms up, some component
is failing. I'm afraid the only way to troubleshoot hardware is by
swapping out cards with known-good ones. I would start with the video
card from your description.

Good luck,

Malke

 

[Alias]

If you are getting problems when the hardware warms up, some component
is failing. I'm afraid the only way to troubleshoot hardware is by
swapping out cards with known-good ones. I would start with the video
card from your description.

Good luck,

Malke

I'll try taking it out and restoring the onboard MB video card and see what
happens.

Alias

 

[Alias]

If you are getting problems when the hardware warms up, some component
is failing. I'm afraid the only way to troubleshoot hardware is by
swapping out cards with known-good ones. I would start with the video
card from your description.

Good luck,

Malke

Removed the video card and went back to the onboard video card and now it
seems to be fine.

Alias

 

[Malke]

I'll try taking it out and restoring the onboard MB video card and see
what happens.

Good. Let me know what happens.

Malke