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Harry
Hi,
I re-installed Win XP on my machine (Athalon XP 2100+,
256MB DDR RAM, 60GB primary HDD, 160GB secondary HDD,
GeForce 4 Ti4200 128MB Graphics card) the other day.
Following installation, I installed SP1 (by downloading it
first) and installed a few other programs that I use. When
I re-started my PC following this, it started this strange
behaviour below:
When starting up, it gets past the normal BIOS stuff, to
the OS boot section, it checks for bootable media in both
CD drives, and doesn't boot anything (no CDs in the drives)
, then the screen goes blank, for about 20 seconds.
Following this, it starts with a very simple grey progress
bar across the bottom of the screen (there is a photo (old
-style screenshot!!) if you go here: http://www.
alt-control.net/1.JPG (the white spot is the flash
reflection)) this takes 5-10minutes to get halfway, and
then dissappears to be replaced by the usual booting screen
(http://www.alt-control.net/2.JPG) and then it continues to
load fine.
I cannot find any indication, of what this progress bar is,
the amount of time it takes suggests it is doing a scandisk
or something, but I didn't think XP did this during
startup.
If anyone else has had a similar experience, and is willing
to share any information about the cause, I would be very
grateful, even just ideas would be welcome, this is a
little irritating!!
I did not make any hardware changes prior to this starting,
I recently installed a new hard drive (about a week old),
but that was working fine, before the re-installation, so I
can't see that it is that.
If anyone can help me, but needs more information, please
don't hesitate to let me know. I work in IT, so don't worry
about asking complicated questions, I will ask if I don't
understand.
Many thanks, in advance, to anyone who can assist.
Harry
I re-installed Win XP on my machine (Athalon XP 2100+,
256MB DDR RAM, 60GB primary HDD, 160GB secondary HDD,
GeForce 4 Ti4200 128MB Graphics card) the other day.
Following installation, I installed SP1 (by downloading it
first) and installed a few other programs that I use. When
I re-started my PC following this, it started this strange
behaviour below:
When starting up, it gets past the normal BIOS stuff, to
the OS boot section, it checks for bootable media in both
CD drives, and doesn't boot anything (no CDs in the drives)
, then the screen goes blank, for about 20 seconds.
Following this, it starts with a very simple grey progress
bar across the bottom of the screen (there is a photo (old
-style screenshot!!) if you go here: http://www.
alt-control.net/1.JPG (the white spot is the flash
reflection)) this takes 5-10minutes to get halfway, and
then dissappears to be replaced by the usual booting screen
(http://www.alt-control.net/2.JPG) and then it continues to
load fine.
I cannot find any indication, of what this progress bar is,
the amount of time it takes suggests it is doing a scandisk
or something, but I didn't think XP did this during
startup.
If anyone else has had a similar experience, and is willing
to share any information about the cause, I would be very
grateful, even just ideas would be welcome, this is a
little irritating!!
I did not make any hardware changes prior to this starting,
I recently installed a new hard drive (about a week old),
but that was working fine, before the re-installation, so I
can't see that it is that.
If anyone can help me, but needs more information, please
don't hesitate to let me know. I work in IT, so don't worry
about asking complicated questions, I will ask if I don't
understand.
Many thanks, in advance, to anyone who can assist.
Harry