Guest Padredog Posted July 23, 2008 Posted July 23, 2008 I have a gaming PC with win xp sp2 that has had problems at startup for about a year now. It will hang at the splash screen and the blue scroll will just roll on, and until recently, I would get the message "Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device" after it scrolled for about 15-30 minutes. I can alway get into safe mode. I recently enabled the /bootlog switch so I could see the ntbtlog.txt file, it is over 6 meg in size. Two other PC's I use, an emachine running XP SP2, and a Vista PC PC at work. Both of those ntbtlog files are about 27K in size. Why would my gaming PC ntbtlog file be so much bigger? I see A LOT of duplicate lines in the huge ntbtlog file. Would this be a possible source of my PC hanging at the splash screen?
Guest PvdG42 Posted July 24, 2008 Posted July 24, 2008 Re: Why is ntbtlog.txt so big? "Padredog" <padredog69@gmail.com> wrote in message news:56fa7694-8402-42d0-994e-eba9d6f6d978@s21g2000prm.googlegroups.com... >I have a gaming PC with win xp sp2 that has had problems at startup > for about a year now. It will hang at the splash screen and the blue > scroll will just roll on, and until recently, I would get the message > "Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected > boot device" after it scrolled for about 15-30 minutes. I can alway > get into safe mode. I recently enabled the /bootlog switch so I could > see the ntbtlog.txt file, it is over 6 meg in size. Two other PC's I > use, an emachine running XP SP2, and a Vista PC PC at work. Both of > those ntbtlog files are about 27K in size. Why would my gaming PC > ntbtlog file be so much bigger? I see A LOT of duplicate lines in the > huge ntbtlog file. Would this be a possible source of my PC hanging at > the splash screen? The file name implies that it's a log file, which probably has entries added every time your PC boots in its present condition. Since you've had issues for a year, that's a lot of log entries. Try opening the file in WordPad or some other editor to see the repeating entries. The size of the log file is a symptom of your problem. Have you considered a repair install of XP?
Guest Padredog Posted July 24, 2008 Posted July 24, 2008 Re: Why is ntbtlog.txt so big? On Jul 24, 5:48 am, "PvdG42" <p...@toadstool.edu> wrote: > "Padredog" <padredo...@gmail.com> wrote in message > > news:56fa7694-8402-42d0-994e-eba9d6f6d978@s21g2000prm.googlegroups.com... > > >I have a gaming PC with win xp sp2 that has had problems at startup > > for about a year now. It will hang at the splash screen and the blue > > scroll will just roll on, and until recently, I would get the message > > "Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected > > boot device" after it scrolled for about 15-30 minutes. I can alway > > get into safe mode. I recently enabled the /bootlog switch so I could > > see the ntbtlog.txt file, it is over 6 meg in size. Two other PC's I > > use, an emachine running XP SP2, and a Vista PC PC at work. Both of > > those ntbtlog files are about 27K in size. Why would my gaming PC > > ntbtlog file be so much bigger? I see A LOT of duplicate lines in the > > huge ntbtlog file. Would this be a possible source of my PC hanging at > > the splash screen? > > The file name implies that it's a log file, which probably has entries added > every time your PC boots in its present condition. Since you've had issues > for a year, that's a lot of log entries. Try opening the file in WordPad or > some other editor to see the repeating entries. > > The size of the log file is a symptom of your problem. Have you considered a > repair install of XP? Thanks for responding.Bootlog was only enabled recently, about a week ago. Would it still log a years worth of records? I have considered a repair install of xp.
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