XP will not fully boot

[Tim Maddux]

After getting home from a month long road trip my desktop box would not
boot into XP. I believe the first slash screen came up then the screen
went black with only white mouse arrow on the screen. The system had now
locked up because the mouse. I booted in Safe Mode and the machine took
a long time to boot up. I looked through the event logs to see what was
going on but could not make out what the problem was. I tried to boot in
Safe Mode with network connection but went into an endless boot that I
finally had to stop. In Safe Mode I did run a AVG virus scan (with month
old definitions but then the machine hadn't been on in more than a
month) but AVG found nothing. Does anyone have any idea where to look
for the problem?

Thank you, Tim

 

[Gerry]

Tim

I am not clear when you comment on the Event Viewer logs. Are there no
Error / Warning Reports or is that you could see anything significant.

Please post copies of all Error and Warning Reports appearing in
the System and Application logs in Event Viewer for the last boot. No
Information Reports or Duplicates please. Indicate which also appear in
a previous boot.

You can access Event Viewer by selecting Start, Control Panel,
Administrative Tools, and Event Viewer. When researching the meaning
of the error, information regarding Event ID, Source and Description
are important.

HOW TO: View and Manage Event Logs in Event Viewer in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308427/en-us

Part of the Description of the error will include a link, which you
should double click for further information. You can copy using copy
and paste. Often the link will, however, say there is no further
information.
http://go.microsoft.com/fw.link/events.asp
(Please note the hyperlink above is for illustration purposes only)

A tip for posting copies of Error Reports! Run Event Viewer and double
click on the error you want to copy. In the window, which appears is a
button resembling two pages. Click the button and close Event
Viewer.Now start your message (email) and do a paste into the body of
the message. Make sure this is the first paste after exiting from
Event Viewer.


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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[Tim Maddux]

Gerry,

Where can I find the event logs in the file system. Booting into windows
is PAINFULLY SLOW but I can access that drive with CD Live. That is if I
knew the location of the files.

Tim