I'm getting the weirdest thing happening with this old comp of mine. I recently built a new one and gave my old one to my brother. I of course formatted it and then reinstalled Win2kPro and booted it up. It got to the desktop, but I had to shut down because it was time to sleep. I booted it up the next morning, and it freezes at bootup. The part where there's a white screen with the windows logo and the moving bar. The bar gets all the way to the finish, but the other moving bar (the blueish one) stops moving. So I just restarted it. It happens again. And again. So then I say, well that sucks. So, I format the comp again and reinstall win2k. I boot it up. It doesn't even make it to the desktop this time. It just locks up on boot up. So then I go and get a startup disk from my win98 comp, put it in, changed the bios settings to boot from floppy and reboot. The comp bypasses the floppy and boots win2k (only to freeze at the same spot, again).
So, here it is in a nutshell: I have reformatted 4 times, deleted partitions, created partitions, tried a boot disk, etc etc. Nothing works!
NOTE: I CAN boot the comp into safe mode (this choice is before the boot up screen), but I can't do anything from safemode that is useful.
If you have ANY ideas, please let me know. I have a deadline to fix this comp for my bro...
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2003-05-13, 12:34 PM
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