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Hello everyone,
I am having a very strange XP reboot issue...I have XP SP3 and now whenever I need to reboot (I usually keep my machine on all the time) it starts back up...gets to the normal XP screen (with the moving bar) and then goes to a black screen and just stops. No error, no beeps, nothing.
However, every so often it will actually boot up and then continue to work fine...until I need to reboot again. There's nothing in the Event Log and no other noticeable error....all data is good and all applications seem to work fine on boot up (when I can finally get it going again).
If I hit F8 when booting, it seems to always be able to get into Safe Mode with no issues.
I have had this PC humming along for a long time, it's kept very clean, it's well maintained...no bloatware, no wacky crap...etc.
Not sure if h/w matters for this (again, been running for about a year, perfectly)...but just in case...
It's an AMD Dual Core 4200,
Asus A8N32-SLI MB
2 GB Corsair memory
EN7900 GT TOP
2x Seagate ST3300622AS-RK Barracuda 300 GB SATA
Any thoughts would be appreciated and thank you in advance.
I am having a very strange XP reboot issue...I have XP SP3 and now whenever I need to reboot (I usually keep my machine on all the time) it starts back up...gets to the normal XP screen (with the moving bar) and then goes to a black screen and just stops. No error, no beeps, nothing.
However, every so often it will actually boot up and then continue to work fine...until I need to reboot again. There's nothing in the Event Log and no other noticeable error....all data is good and all applications seem to work fine on boot up (when I can finally get it going again).
If I hit F8 when booting, it seems to always be able to get into Safe Mode with no issues.
I have had this PC humming along for a long time, it's kept very clean, it's well maintained...no bloatware, no wacky crap...etc.
Not sure if h/w matters for this (again, been running for about a year, perfectly)...but just in case...
It's an AMD Dual Core 4200,
Asus A8N32-SLI MB
2 GB Corsair memory
EN7900 GT TOP
2x Seagate ST3300622AS-RK Barracuda 300 GB SATA
Any thoughts would be appreciated and thank you in advance.