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Jim
When a PC boots, there's some BIOS stuff going on, which is shown with very
DOS-like annotation on the screen. Then Windows starts, which brings up an
initial Windows-logo screen that appears to be a default 640 x 480 dispaly.
This is the first presentation of the Windows logo and has the three little
blue marbles cycling left-to-right in a horizontal window as more things
happen in the background.
It is at this point that my computer sometimes stalls and 'hangs.' Powering
it off and back on again always fixes things with no problem; Windows loads
on the second attempt and never gives a warning that anything untoward
happened the first time.
I seem to recall hearing once that the initial Windows logo screen could be
bypassed so that the program loading procedure could be observed on the
screen as sort of a continuation of the initial BIOS loading text having to
do with memory, etc. Is this true and, if so, would this perhaps show where
my system is stalling?
DOS-like annotation on the screen. Then Windows starts, which brings up an
initial Windows-logo screen that appears to be a default 640 x 480 dispaly.
This is the first presentation of the Windows logo and has the three little
blue marbles cycling left-to-right in a horizontal window as more things
happen in the background.
It is at this point that my computer sometimes stalls and 'hangs.' Powering
it off and back on again always fixes things with no problem; Windows loads
on the second attempt and never gives a warning that anything untoward
happened the first time.
I seem to recall hearing once that the initial Windows logo screen could be
bypassed so that the program loading procedure could be observed on the
screen as sort of a continuation of the initial BIOS loading text having to
do with memory, etc. Is this true and, if so, would this perhaps show where
my system is stalling?