Guest justabill Posted September 10, 2008 Posted September 10, 2008 Man do I have a problem! When I try booting into XP it will get up to the point where the logon screen should apper, and it doesn't. I just get to the blue screen (not to be confused w/the BSOD) but it never gets to the point where it says 'Welcome" and I can log in. There is a mouse cursor there that I can move around but nothing else, not even disk activity. Nada, zip, zilch. I've tried safe mode, safe mode w/networking. safe mode w/command prompt, last known good configuration, debug, etc. all but the one for Domain Controllers. Done the 3 fingered salute (Ctrl+Alt+Del) to bring up the other login screen. I've booted from cd's that allow access to NTFS and run chkdsk. Used linux to reset my password. (All partitions report normal and healthy in linux BTW) I'm totally out of ideas on this one. Any ideas folks?
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted September 10, 2008 Posted September 10, 2008 Re: No login screen for XP Pro "justabill" <justabill@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:197AC658-1A5D-40E9-922A-BCEE5D426155@microsoft.com... > Man do I have a problem! When I try booting into XP it will get up to the > point where the logon screen should apper, and it doesn't. I just get to > the > blue screen (not to be confused w/the BSOD) but it never gets to the point > where it says 'Welcome" and I can log in. There is a mouse cursor there > that > I can move around but nothing else, not even disk activity. Nada, zip, > zilch. > > I've tried safe mode, safe mode w/networking. safe mode w/command prompt, > last known good configuration, debug, etc. all but the one for Domain > Controllers. Done the 3 fingered salute (Ctrl+Alt+Del) to bring up the > other > login screen. I've booted from cd's that allow access to NTFS and run > chkdsk. > Used linux to reset my password. (All partitions report normal and healthy > in > linux BTW) I'm totally out of ideas on this one. > > Any ideas folks? > Presumably this happened all of a sudden, so a manual System Restore should fix it: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307545.
Guest justabill Posted September 10, 2008 Posted September 10, 2008 Re: No login screen for XP Pro "Pegasus (MVP)" wrote: > Presumably this happened all of a sudden, so a manual System Restore should > fix it: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307545. Great idea, but this is an OEM install. Who knows where the hives are scattered to. Thanks though, excellent answer. Bill
Guest Patrick Keenan Posted September 10, 2008 Posted September 10, 2008 Re: No login screen for XP Pro "justabill" <justabill@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:1DA1A9FF-3699-4224-9AC4-74004A5B3F4F@microsoft.com... > > > "Pegasus (MVP)" wrote: > >> Presumably this happened all of a sudden, so a manual System Restore >> should >> fix it: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307545. > > > Great idea, but this is an OEM install. Who knows where the hives are > scattered to. Thanks though, excellent answer. > > > Bill They are almost certainly in the same place as all the other installs of XP; there's no reason to move them, and a lot of reasons not to. If not, a search using the appropriate tools will find them. HTH -pk
Guest justabill Posted September 10, 2008 Posted September 10, 2008 Re: No login screen for XP Pro "Patrick Keenan" wrote: > >> fix it: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307545. > They are almost certainly in the same place as all the other installs of XP; > there's no reason to move them, and a lot of reasons not to. The article above specifically states not to use this procedure on an OEM install, and I misstated, not where they have the hives, but what are in them. My fault. Besides, I think I'm just going to trash the recovery and NTFS partitions and use the space for /srv in linux. I can use the space and all I used XP for was games anyways. Way too much hassle to play Sam & Max. :) Bill
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted September 10, 2008 Posted September 10, 2008 Re: No login screen for XP Pro "justabill" <justabill@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:8FB31F79-7BDD-45B0-ABF6-538E48F92D16@microsoft.com... > > > "Patrick Keenan" wrote: > > >> >> fix it: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307545. > >> They are almost certainly in the same place as all the other installs of >> XP; >> there's no reason to move them, and a lot of reasons not to. > > The article above specifically states not to use this procedure on an OEM > install, and I misstated, not where they have the hives, but what are in > them. My fault. > > Besides, I think I'm just going to trash the recovery and NTFS partitions > and use the space for /srv in linux. I can use the space and all I used XP > for was games anyways. Way too much hassle to play Sam & Max. :) > > > Bill If your WinXP installation means so little to you, I wonder why you posted here in the first place and asked people to spend time in assisting you.
Guest John John (MVP) Posted September 10, 2008 Posted September 10, 2008 Re: No login screen for XP Pro justabill wrote: > > "Patrick Keenan" wrote: > > > >>>>fix it: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307545. > > >>They are almost certainly in the same place as all the other installs of XP; >>there's no reason to move them, and a lot of reasons not to. > > > The article above specifically states not to use this procedure on an OEM > install, and I misstated, not where they have the hives, but what are in > them. My fault. That was fixed with SP1, its a password issue only when you try to logon to the Recovery Console and only when the installation was syspreped. See here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308402 John
Guest Patrick Keenan Posted September 10, 2008 Posted September 10, 2008 Re: No login screen for XP Pro "justabill" <justabill@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:8FB31F79-7BDD-45B0-ABF6-538E48F92D16@microsoft.com... > > > "Patrick Keenan" wrote: > > >> >> fix it: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307545. > >> They are almost certainly in the same place as all the other installs of >> XP; >> there's no reason to move them, and a lot of reasons not to. > > The article above specifically states not to use this procedure on an OEM > install, and I misstated, not where they have the hives, but what are in > them. My fault. I've used that procedure myself on OEM installs, DELL, HP and IBM with no ill effects. The OEM issue has to do with custom user accounts and passwords and the Recovery Console, but you don't actually need to use the Recovery Console at all. You can adapt the procedure to use of a Linux boot CD. It's basically a matter of shuffling files around. HTH -pk > > Besides, I think I'm just going to trash the recovery and NTFS partitions > and use the space for /srv in linux. I can use the space and all I used XP > for was games anyways. Way too much hassle to play Sam & Max. :) > > > Bill
Guest justabill Posted September 11, 2008 Posted September 11, 2008 Re: No login screen for XP Pro "Pegasus (MVP)" wrote: > If your WinXP installation means so little to you, I wonder why you posted > here in the first place and asked people to spend time in assisting you. I imagine because I wanted it to work. My sincere apologies for taking so much time out of your day to cut and paste a link to a not quite accurate article from the knowledge base. Have a nice day galah.
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted September 11, 2008 Posted September 11, 2008 Re: No login screen for XP Pro "justabill" <justabill@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:B16857C8-8E25-4D52-AD20-DE57B0F9E036@microsoft.com... > > > "Pegasus (MVP)" wrote: > > >> If your WinXP installation means so little to you, I wonder why you >> posted >> here in the first place and asked people to spend time in assisting you. > > I imagine because I wanted it to work. My sincere apologies for taking so > much time out of your day to cut and paste a link to a not quite accurate > article from the knowledge base. Have a nice day galah. Although you write "My sincere apologies", the barbs you added at the end make me wonder about your sincerity. And yes, the link I quoted would have fixed your problem if you had taken the time to implement its recommendations.
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