Windows only boots every second try

[Thorben Grosser]

Hello Newsgroup,

I have a rather strange problem:

Every first time I start my parents machine, Windows (XP, SP2, etc...)
won't boot. As always, my parents say that "they did do nothing before
the error came up."
When resetting it and booting a second time, everything works fine.
If I try to execute a bootlog using the F8 menu, I can choose "With
boot log" from the menu, select it, then - as usual - the screen turns
black but it never turns any other color again. And for some reason or
another, I can not find any bootlog.
Although I thought this kind of error might happen more frequently,
google didn't get me a thing,

thanks
Thorben

 

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could be a hardware
initialization problem.

however, you should
initiate a check disk.

then download a
freeware from microsoft.com
called pagedefrag and
set it to run a boot time.

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[Malke]

Hello Newsgroup,

I have a rather strange problem:

Every first time I start my parents machine, Windows (XP, SP2, etc...)
won't boot. As always, my parents say that "they did do nothing before
the error came up."
When resetting it and booting a second time, everything works fine.
If I try to execute a bootlog using the F8 menu, I can choose "With
boot log" from the menu, select it, then - as usual - the screen turns
black but it never turns any other color again. And for some reason or
another, I can not find any bootlog.
Although I thought this kind of error might happen more frequently,
google didn't get me a thing,

This is a hardware, not software (Windows), error. The usual culprit is
a failing power supply, although of course other components can be
involved.

http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Hardware_Tshoot

Standard caveat: Testing hardware failures often involves swapping out
suspected parts with known-good parts. If you can't do the testing
yourself and/or are uncomfortable opening your computer, take the
machine to a professional computer repair shop (not your local
equivalent of BigComputerStore/GeekSquad). Have all your data backed up
before you take the machine into a shop.


Malke