XP SP3 Home freezes at Welcome screen once.

[Guest Gis Bun]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

>