Windows freezing at startup

[oconefsky]

This randomly started happening today.

I turn my computer on, and I get to the windows xp screen with the blue bars that go across. They go across for a bit, then stop, and windows never finishes booting up.

I have tried:
Repairing windows
Reformatting
Checking all wires

Any suggestions?

 

[Azhar]

I was going to suggest corrupted profile but you said you reformatted, so it sounds a lot like bad hardware.

a couple things you'll want to try.. safe mode and looking into your event viewer for possible error messages if you can, or remove a stick of ram.

might want to default your BIOS setting too.

 

[TheCreator]

Run a ram and harddrive test.

 

[H-street]

what hardware/drivers?


is it right when it normally initializes the video card?

every now on one of my machines i'll have the same thing where it seems to stop right as its about to initialize the video card..

a reboot usually solves it,


can you boot into safemode?

also maybe check the event log to see if you have any hanging hardware driver error reports coming up.