XP Home wont boot

[Joe Wheels]

XP home will not do a soft boot, just hangs after "windows is shutting
down" (black screen). When I try to hard boot, it takes upwards of 5
times before it finally catches and boots. I've upgraded every driver
possible. Unloaded programs, all but necessary, yet it still acts the
same. Every once in a while it will hard boot after 1 or 2 tries but
usually it's over 5 before it catches. Any ideas? What am I missing?

I have bootvis and don't see anything unusual in the boot process. Is
there something that monitors the shutdown process? The event viewer
looks fine. To make things worst: every once in a while it decides to
shut down on it's own so I have to play with it for 10 minutes to get
it up and running. Help, please.

Thanks

 

[aaron]

I m not sure how old your computer is, but it might be
your IDE cable might have good bad on you or has become
lose, I had a similar problem of getting bootdisk failure
and slowness, if your not sure what the IDE cable is its
the gray cable which connects the hard drive to the
motherboard.

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----
XP home will not do a soft boot, just hangs after "windows is shutting
down" (black screen). When I try to hard boot, it takes upwards of 5
times before it finally catches and boots. I've upgraded every driver
possible. Unloaded programs, all but necessary, yet it still acts the
same. Every once in a while it will hard boot after 1 or 2 tries but
usually it's over 5 before it catches. Any ideas? What am I missing?
might not fix the problem but it sounds like time to

clean install with no hardware peripherals attached and

turn on xp firewall and get windows critical updates and
test system,if it still has the problem update all
drivers and bios ,dont forget motherboard drivers,if
still problem then it is incompatible/faulty hardware
issue.