Windows failure to start up

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I have installed Win 2k on this particular machine. Now
when powering up the machine, it won't complete the start
up procedure. It completes the white windows "starting
up" section, the screen goes black, power to the monitor
is shut off and the system appears to shut down. Any
ideas what process or service gets started at that point
that might be causing this? Any good ideas as to what I
can try to fix this problem?

Thank You,
 
I have the same problem - I think I need to get a Windows start up floppy disc, but don't know where to get one? Does anyone have any thoughts?

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I have installed Win 2k on this particular machine. Now
when powering up the machine, it won't complete the start
up procedure. It completes the white windows "starting
up" section, the screen goes black, power to the monitor
is shut off and the system appears to shut down. Any
ideas what process or service gets started at that point
that might be causing this? Any good ideas as to what I
can try to fix this problem

Thank You,
 
The CD is Bootable. If you want a Windows 2000 floppy bootdisk, it is a
4 floppy disk set.
 
Ron said:
I have installed Win 2k on this particular machine. Now
when powering up the machine, it won't complete the start
up procedure. It completes the white windows "starting
up" section, the screen goes black, power to the monitor
is shut off and the system appears to shut down. Any
ideas what process or service gets started at that point
that might be causing this? Any good ideas as to what I
can try to fix this problem?

Thank You,
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What happens when you hit F8 to get the menu during that initial
DOS-like progress bar screen? See if Safe mode boots all the way in
(including logging in).
 
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What happens when you hit F8 to get the menu during that initial
DOS-like progress bar screen? See if Safe mode boots all the way in
(including logging in).

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I pressed F8 and started in Safe Mode. I am able to log
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in. I did a restart and the machine would not start. I
did a F8 again and selected normal start and the machine
started fine. I did a restart and it started. I tried it
again and the machine would not start. It seems that one
time it will work, the next couple it won't. I can't get
a pattern or consistancy to what is going on....

Thanks,
 
Ron said:
in. I did a restart and the machine would not start. I
did a F8 again and selected normal start and the machine
started fine. I did a restart and it started. I tried it
again and the machine would not start. It seems that one
time it will work, the next couple it won't. I can't get
a pattern or consistancy to what is going on....

Thanks,
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Sometimes booting into Safe mode will kick a driver in the butt to get
it to work (or quiesce a pending install completion). Sounds like you
have a driver or some software that wants kernel-level permission and
which screws up on a normal startup. What was the last driver or
software you installed before which the system was okay?
 
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Sometimes booting into Safe mode will kick a driver in the butt to get
it to work (or quiesce a pending install completion). Sounds like you
have a driver or some software that wants kernel-level permission and
which screws up on a normal startup. What was the last driver or
software you installed before which the system was okay?

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I loaded w2k sp3 with a driver for the Wild Cat 4110
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display adapter. There are other program files I loaded
but didn't test it at varios stages of the installs. I
have loaded 6 previous machines identical to this with
this being the only problem child. I will try removing
software programs and try various levels of this install
to try to locate the cause.... Any other ideas, please
let me know.

Thanks,
 
Ron said:
display adapter. There are other program files I loaded
but didn't test it at varios stages of the installs. I
have loaded 6 previous machines identical to this with
this being the only problem child. I will try removing
software programs and try various levels of this install
to try to locate the cause.... Any other ideas, please
let me know.

Thanks,
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I'd start with the critical drivers first (video, audio, drives, mouse,
keyboard). Boot into Safe mode (sounds like you can get that far).
Uninstall the video driver or software, reboot into Safe mode again,
locate any remnant .inf file for the video driver (and check which Enum
registry key might designate the video card). Uninstall the video
device just to be sure you are using Windows' VGA driver to be sure you
are updating from a known device type. Now install the video driver and
reboot.
 
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