XP won't start

[Howie]

All of a sudden, my wife's PC would not get past the XP
splash screen when starting up (no 'progress bar'
movement). It has been fine for ages (on 128 MB RAM). I
thought her hard drive was on its way out (very noisy) and
had finally gone to rest.
So I put in a new HDD and, after the initial XP files are
copied to the HDD on install, when the system reboots, it
hangs at the splash screen again, same place.
I'm at a loss. My next step is to add more RAM, although
it worked fine before with 128MB. Any ideas please? TIA.

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----
All of a sudden, my wife's PC would not get past the XP
splash screen when starting up (no 'progress bar'
movement). It has been fine for ages (on 128 MB RAM). I
thought her hard drive was on its way out (very noisy) and
had finally gone to rest.
So I put in a new HDD and, after the initial XP files are
copied to the HDD on install, when the system reboots, it
hangs at the splash screen again, same place.
I'm at a loss. My next step is to add more RAM, although
it worked fine before with 128MB. Any ideas please? TIA.
.
howie you have to walk before you run,since it wasnt the

hard drive you need to determine which piece of hardware
it is first.

remove all the pci cards and leave one stick of ram psu
and cpu and one hard drive and one cdrom drive and try
installing xp.(this assumes you have already remove all
peripherals from outside fo the tower just leaving
keyboard monitor and mouse.)

if the above doesnt allow install to complete,then it is
a matter of substituting each part left till the problem
goes away.

 

[Howie]

-----Original Message-----

hard drive you need to determine which piece of hardware
it is first.

remove all the pci cards and leave one stick of ram psu
and cpu and one hard drive and one cdrom drive and try
installing xp.(this assumes you have already remove all
peripherals from outside fo the tower just leaving
keyboard monitor and mouse.)

if the above doesnt allow install to complete,then it is
a matter of substituting each part left till the problem
goes away.
.

Wow! Progress. Thanks. I removed an NIC, reseated the RAM,
1 HDD, 1 CD-ROM.
I now see a blue 'Stop' screen telling me that
classpnp.sys is having trouble (0x7E) and to check my
video adapter/bios settings/disk space.
I am researching MSN's knowledge base for clues.
Thanks again, Howie.