initial startup screen

[Guest someone watching]

Just installed W2K on and IBM X40 notebook PC. Every time it starts the

is first a black and white screen with:

Windows starting ...

and under this a line of short vertical gray bars, these bars are filled

in progressively from left to right THEN the regular W2k white splash

startup screen appears.

 

What causes that initial screen? Noticed on another system with XP, it

does this same thing but only sometimes, on the X40 it's all the time.

 

Thanks

[Guest V Green]

Re: initial startup screen

 

I think that it always does this. At least here.

 

Sometimes during the video mode switches that happen

during startup, the screen is effectively "off" and you

just aren't seeing them. On faster machines, it may happen

so rapidly you don't see it at all.

 

Your XP system may be faster, and/or uses a video card

and display that reacts faster and thus has time to display

the progress bar.

 

"someone watching" <nospam@bogusaddress.com> wrote in message

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> Just installed W2K on and IBM X40 notebook PC. Every time it starts the

> is first a black and white screen with:

> Windows starting ...

> and under this a line of short vertical gray bars, these bars are filled

> in progressively from left to right THEN the regular W2k white splash

> startup screen appears.

>

> What causes that initial screen? Noticed on another system with XP, it

> does this same thing but only sometimes, on the X40 it's all the time.

>

> Thanks

>

>