Strange boot/reboot XP issue--advice welcome.

[Jeff]

Hello everyone,

I am having a very strange XP reboot issue...I have XP SP3 and now whenever
I need to reboot (I usually keep my machine on all the time) it starts back
up...gets to the normal XP screen (with the moving bar) and then goes to a
black screen and just stops. No error, no beeps, nothing.

However, every so often it will actually boot up and then continue to work
fine...until I need to reboot again. There's nothing in the Event Log and no
other noticeable error....all data is good and all applications seem to work
fine on boot up (when I can finally get it going again).

If I hit F8 when booting, it seems to always be able to get into Safe Mode
with no issues.

I have had this PC humming along for a long time, it's kept very clean, it's
well maintained...no bloatware, no wacky crap...etc.


Not sure if h/w matters for this (again, been running for about a year,
perfectly)...but just in case...

It's an AMD Dual Core 4200,
Asus A8N32-SLI MB
2 GB Corsair memory
EN7900 GT TOP
2x Seagate ST3300622AS-RK Barracuda 300 GB SATA



Any thoughts would be appreciated and thank you in advance.

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

Hit F8 and elect the bootlog option. Look at ntbtlog.txt
A description of the Safe Mode Boot options in Windows XP:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315222/en-us
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[Jeff]

I did that and also tried Bootlog XP...

Everything "looks" normal...some stuff takes a while to load but there
doesn't seem to be any errors.

What's annoying is I only see this when it actually does reboot...when it
hangs, I don't get anything and then next reboot overwrites.

It's very frustrating.

I am willing to hear any other thoughts...and Thank you.

--Jeff

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

Not reaching the Welcome screen would imply some problem in the WinLogon
area. Trying SFC might renew any damaged winlogon files. Next, I would
consider trying a new User ID, to compare to the old ID performance.

Start/Run, type:
sfc /scannow

How to copy data from a corrupted user profile to a new profile:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/811151
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