Sound and no windows 2000

[Pete C]

A very strange thing happened. After setting up a new
hard drive, I restarted the win200 pro and after login I
hear standard login sound. The problem I see nothing on
the screen. I do a CRTL ALT DEL to get the shutdown but
that is all the view I get. I sure could use some help on
this!

 

[Dave Patrick]

Check that explorer.exe is the default shell to start. Look at the Reg_Sz
string value of;
"Shell"="Explorer.exe"
found at
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

Else these may help you.


No Desktop or Blank Desktop After Logging On to Windows 2000 (Q256194)
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q256194

How to Perform an In-Place Upgrade of Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q292175

What an In-Place Windows 2000 Upgrade Changes and What It Does Not Change
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q306952


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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]
Microsoft Certified Professional [Windows 2000]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect.


:
| A very strange thing happened. After setting up a new
| hard drive, I restarted the win200 pro and after login I
| hear standard login sound. The problem I see nothing on
| the screen. I do a CRTL ALT DEL to get the shutdown but
| that is all the view I get. I sure could use some help on
| this!

 

[graeme]

Check that explorer.exe is the default shell to start. Look at the Reg_Sz
string value of;
"Shell"="Explorer.exe"
found at
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

Else these may help you.


No Desktop or Blank Desktop After Logging On to Windows 2000 (Q256194)
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q256194

How to Perform an In-Place Upgrade of Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q292175

What an In-Place Windows 2000 Upgrade Changes and What It Does Not Change
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q306952


--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]
Microsoft Certified Professional [Windows 2000]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect.


:
| A very strange thing happened. After setting up a new
| hard drive, I restarted the win200 pro and after login I
| hear standard login sound. The problem I see nothing on
| the screen. I do a CRTL ALT DEL to get the shutdown but
| that is all the view I get. I sure could use some help on
| this!

I had a similar problem only my server did not respond to Ctrl Alt
Del. I finally discovered the problem to be a corrupt user profile,
logged on as another user and deleted the profile, then logged on as
that user again. Windows is forced to re-create the profile. This is
only relavent in a domain environment.

Cheers