Guest Gis Bun Posted September 18, 2008 Posted September 18, 2008 A friend has Win XP SP3 Home. Machine is almost brand new [under 4 months old]. There is only one user account. Out of the blue, when my friend booted up, it got stuck at the "Welcome" screen [the one with the "Welcome" word at the center of the screen]. And it sat there for about 25-30 minutes until I arrived. Had to do a hard shutdown [hold the pwer button down]. Rebooted and everything was fine. No flags in the event log or anything. Gis
Guest Thee Chicago Wolf Posted September 18, 2008 Posted September 18, 2008 Re: XP SP3 Home freezes at Welcome screen once. >A friend has Win XP SP3 Home. Machine is almost brand new [under 4 months >old]. There is only one user account. > >Out of the blue, when my friend booted up, it got stuck at the "Welcome" >screen [the one with the "Welcome" word at the center of the screen]. And it >sat there for about 25-30 minutes until I arrived. > >Had to do a hard shutdown [hold the pwer button down]. Rebooted and >everything was fine. No flags in the event log or anything. > >Gis Is this an Intel-based PC with Intel chipsets? Have you installed the current Intel chipset drivers? - Thee Chicago Wolf
Guest Unknown Posted September 18, 2008 Posted September 18, 2008 Re: XP SP3 Home freezes at Welcome screen once. Could be many things. If currently running fine, don't worry about it. If failure recurs run memory diagnostics and any other tests available to you. Be sure computer has a good ground connection.. "Gis Bun" <GisBun@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:AE48E4BF-0C7D-4CDA-A9A7-E94076C9F563@microsoft.com... >A friend has Win XP SP3 Home. Machine is almost brand new [under 4 months > old]. There is only one user account. > > Out of the blue, when my friend booted up, it got stuck at the "Welcome" > screen [the one with the "Welcome" word at the center of the screen]. And > it > sat there for about 25-30 minutes until I arrived. > > Had to do a hard shutdown [hold the pwer button down]. Rebooted and > everything was fine. No flags in the event log or anything. > > Gis > >
Guest Gis Bun Posted September 18, 2008 Posted September 18, 2008 Re: XP SP3 Home freezes at Welcome screen once. Practically a brand new Dell with an AMD CPU. "Thee Chicago Wolf" wrote: > >A friend has Win XP SP3 Home. Machine is almost brand new [under 4 months > >old]. There is only one user account. > > > >Out of the blue, when my friend booted up, it got stuck at the "Welcome" > >screen [the one with the "Welcome" word at the center of the screen]. And it > >sat there for about 25-30 minutes until I arrived. > > > >Had to do a hard shutdown [hold the pwer button down]. Rebooted and > >everything was fine. No flags in the event log or anything. > > > >Gis > > Is this an Intel-based PC with Intel chipsets? Have you installed the > current Intel chipset drivers? > > - Thee Chicago Wolf >
Guest Gis Bun Posted September 18, 2008 Posted September 18, 2008 Re: XP SP3 Home freezes at Welcome screen once. Everything working fine otherwise. No flags anywhere. It replaced an old clunker. At worse, maybe a decent powerbar is needed. "Unknown" wrote: > Could be many things. If currently running fine, don't worry about it. If > failure recurs run memory diagnostics and > any other tests available to you. Be sure computer has a good ground > connection.. > "Gis Bun" <GisBun@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:AE48E4BF-0C7D-4CDA-A9A7-E94076C9F563@microsoft.com... > >A friend has Win XP SP3 Home. Machine is almost brand new [under 4 months > > old]. There is only one user account. > > > > Out of the blue, when my friend booted up, it got stuck at the "Welcome" > > screen [the one with the "Welcome" word at the center of the screen]. And > > it > > sat there for about 25-30 minutes until I arrived. > > > > Had to do a hard shutdown [hold the pwer button down]. Rebooted and > > everything was fine. No flags in the event log or anything. > > > > Gis > > > > > > >
Guest Thee Chicago Wolf Posted September 18, 2008 Posted September 18, 2008 Re: XP SP3 Home freezes at Welcome screen once. >Practically a brand new Dell with an AMD CPU. Have you made sure that things like chipset drivers and BIOS are all current with what is offered on the Dell support web site? These are the most common pieces of software that are overlooked by everyone. - Thee Chicago Wolf
Guest Gis Bun Posted September 19, 2008 Posted September 19, 2008 Re: XP SP3 Home freezes at Welcome screen once. "Been there. Done that." "Thee Chicago Wolf" wrote: > >Practically a brand new Dell with an AMD CPU. > > Have you made sure that things like chipset drivers and BIOS are all > current with what is offered on the Dell support web site? These are > the most common pieces of software that are overlooked by everyone. > > - Thee Chicago Wolf >
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