XP boot up

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Every morning when I boot up one of my PC's, it stalls while loading windows.
It always stalls in the light blue screen. It varies where it stalls.
Anywhere from when it just gets into the light blue screen to when you need
to Ctrl-Alt-Del. This just started about 3 months ago. No changes on the
computer except windows updates. It was doing it about once a week and
gradually got worse to once a day.
Hard rebooting it always fixes it. Tried removing hardware and looked at the
logs. Nothing in there. Last known good configuration and safe mode does not
work.

Any ideas? Corrupted file? CMOS? Hardware?

Thanks,
John
 
Without a bunch more information - I'd suspect it's a basic hardware/driver
issue. Start with resetting the CMOS (maybe a new battery as long as you're
in there), then move to updating the chipset/motherboard drivers, then the
video drivers. I'd stay away from BIOS updates unless there's a specific
reason listed in the readme for the BIOS update.

- John
 
I had this problem last summer in XP bootup. Someone in this group told me
that it was my power supply. I changed the unit and haven't had any problem
since. My problem happened in the first boot of the day after the unit warmed
up it was fine. If you have a program to measure the voltage on the
motherboard it would indicate whether that is the problem.
 
I have an external modem.
I have found that these last 2 mornings, booting the computer with the modem
not hooked up to the computer, it boots fine.
Possibly the drivers? I have the latest drovers that the modem company has
released.
Do you think I should uninstall and reinstall the modem?

Thanks,
John
 
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