K
Kirk
Leaving my Windows HP home ed PC overnight , and it does not start up at
all. It hangs at the point I would be expecting the splash screen to appear,
with a blank black screen , and no sign of hard drive activity- the fan
stays at full speed so there may be some processor activity.
Press the 'off' button, and it goes to 'off' as expected after 4 or 5
seconds.
Now press the off-on a second time and it burst into life offering the 'safe
mode' options. Chose Safe mode and its starts and suns normally. From Safe
Mode, select shut down, restart and it starts and then behaves perfectly.
I have checked the device manager looking for errors and there are none, I
have run the antivirus , trojan etc software.
The setup is Windows XP home 2002 service pack 2 with a pentium 4 CPU 3.4GhZ
with 2GB of RAM
I have run SFC , and tried registryfix letting it correct any errors. it
still behaves the same so I have restored to the previous 'good' point. I
have restored back as far as I can.
I have not suffered virus attacks, or added any software or hardware ( that
comes to mind) that my caused any problem.
Any offers what may be wrong or how to diagnose it.
all. It hangs at the point I would be expecting the splash screen to appear,
with a blank black screen , and no sign of hard drive activity- the fan
stays at full speed so there may be some processor activity.
Press the 'off' button, and it goes to 'off' as expected after 4 or 5
seconds.
Now press the off-on a second time and it burst into life offering the 'safe
mode' options. Chose Safe mode and its starts and suns normally. From Safe
Mode, select shut down, restart and it starts and then behaves perfectly.
I have checked the device manager looking for errors and there are none, I
have run the antivirus , trojan etc software.
The setup is Windows XP home 2002 service pack 2 with a pentium 4 CPU 3.4GhZ
with 2GB of RAM
I have run SFC , and tried registryfix letting it correct any errors. it
still behaves the same so I have restored to the previous 'good' point. I
have restored back as far as I can.
I have not suffered virus attacks, or added any software or hardware ( that
comes to mind) that my caused any problem.
Any offers what may be wrong or how to diagnose it.