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From: bpuharic on 28 Apr 2010 18:34 have laptop running XP. when started up, it hangs at the 'welcome' screen. I can get it into safe mode and run it from there, but virus scan finds no problems (of course). any ideas? thanks all
From: bpuharic on 28 Apr 2010 18:45 On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 18:34:23 -0400, bpuharic <wf3h(a)comcast.net> wrote: >have laptop running XP. when started up, it hangs at the 'welcome' >screen. I can get it into safe mode and run it from there, but virus >scan finds no problems (of course). > >any ideas? > >thanks all whoops! it's 'vista home premium' edition
From: Jeff Strickland on 28 Apr 2010 18:46 "bpuharic" <wf3h(a)comcast.net> wrote in message news:tqdht5lehp1k27tgn9cfr6tv6trje9fl6b(a)4ax.com... > have laptop running XP. when started up, it hangs at the 'welcome' > screen. I can get it into safe mode and run it from there, but virus > scan finds no problems (of course). > > any ideas? > > thanks all My guess is that you need to reload the OS, then get all of the latest updates and then get the latest drivers. Typically a laptop will have the recovery files accessible by hitting F12 during boot time.
From: JD on 28 Apr 2010 19:11 On 28/04/2010 11:34 PM, bpuharic wrote: > have laptop running XP. when started up, it hangs at the 'welcome' > screen. I can get it into safe mode and run it from there, but virus > scan finds no problems (of course). > > any ideas? > > thanks all XP Home or pro ? in Pro hit F8 like you would to start in safe mode, then enable boot logging, after the system hangs restart go back into safe mode and read the C:\WINNT\Ntbtlog.txt file, the last entry is where the problem will be, ether remove the problem or if it is a system DLL copy it from your original XP disk you will have to rename it from .DL_ to .dll JD
From: JD on 28 Apr 2010 19:17
On 29/04/2010 12:11 AM, JD wrote: > On 28/04/2010 11:34 PM, bpuharic wrote: >> have laptop running XP. when started up, it hangs at the 'welcome' >> screen. I can get it into safe mode and run it from there, but virus >> scan finds no problems (of course). >> >> any ideas? >> >> thanks all > > XP Home or pro ? > > in Pro hit F8 like you would to start in safe mode, then enable boot > logging, after the system hangs restart go back into safe mode and read > the C:\WINNT\Ntbtlog.txt file, the last entry is where the problem will > be, ether remove the problem or if it is a system DLL copy it from your > original XP disk you will have to rename it from .DL_ to .dll > > JD Apparently it works for Vista also JD |