Guest jps74 Posted October 18, 2008 Posted October 18, 2008 Hello, all. I hope someone can help. I'm running Windows XP (pretty sure SP3 installed by now) on an old Compaq Presario desktop. Yesterday, I was noticing that things were quite slow and the hard drive was whirring like mad. I shut down normally, waited a few minutes, and rebooted. The windows logo on the black screen (with the status bar) came up briefly, the screen went black (as usual), and then the windows logo came up on the light blue background....and froze. The hard drive seemed active, but even after letting it sit and stew overnight, nothing happened. Same logo in the morning. It didn't get to the list of windows users in order to logon. I could only shut down by holding down the power button on the tower. When I restarted, it checked the drives, and then went to the windows logo on the light blue background again....and hung there. I tried starting in safe mode, last known good configuration, safe mode w/ command prompt...all to no avail. In each case, I can't get to the list of windows users to logon. Ideas? Help??
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted October 18, 2008 Posted October 18, 2008 Re: Windows XP not booting "jps74" <jps74@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:5E3DDF2A-BE56-410D-81F4-1A28162AD4F0@microsoft.com... > Hello, all. I hope someone can help. > > I'm running Windows XP (pretty sure SP3 installed by now) on an old Compaq > Presario desktop. > > Yesterday, I was noticing that things were quite slow and the hard drive > was > whirring like mad. I shut down normally, waited a few minutes, and > rebooted. > The windows logo on the black screen (with the status bar) came up > briefly, > the screen went black (as usual), and then the windows logo came up on the > light blue background....and froze. The hard drive seemed active, but > even > after letting it sit and stew overnight, nothing happened. Same logo in > the > morning. It didn't get to the list of windows users in order to logon. > > I could only shut down by holding down the power button on the tower. > When > I restarted, it checked the drives, and then went to the windows logo on > the > light blue background again....and hung there. > > I tried starting in safe mode, last known good configuration, safe mode w/ > command prompt...all to no avail. In each case, I can't get to the list > of > windows users to logon. > > Ideas? Help?? Your hard disk may be on the way out. Download and run the diagnostic utility that the manufacturer has on his web site.
Guest Alias ;-) Posted October 18, 2008 Posted October 18, 2008 Re: Windows XP not booting jps74 wrote: > Hello, all. I hope someone can help. > > I'm running Windows XP (pretty sure SP3 installed by now) on an old Compaq > Presario desktop. > > Yesterday, I was noticing that things were quite slow and the hard drive was > whirring like mad. I shut down normally, waited a few minutes, and rebooted. > The windows logo on the black screen (with the status bar) came up briefly, > the screen went black (as usual), and then the windows logo came up on the > light blue background....and froze. The hard drive seemed active, but even > after letting it sit and stew overnight, nothing happened. Same logo in the > morning. It didn't get to the list of windows users in order to logon. > > I could only shut down by holding down the power button on the tower. When > I restarted, it checked the drives, and then went to the windows logo on the > light blue background again....and hung there. > > I tried starting in safe mode, last known good configuration, safe mode w/ > command prompt...all to no avail. In each case, I can't get to the list of > windows users to logon. > > Ideas? Help?? Try this: turn off the computer. Pull the electrical plug from the computer. Wait about 30 seconds. Plug the computer back in and fire it up. If that doesn't work, you may need a new hard drive or some other hardware is failing. Alias
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