Problem with Windows: Won't Load

[Doug5984]

As some of you may know I built my own computer about a week and a half ago. So far everything was working great, I went out of town for the weekend and shut my computer down...and when I got home last night windows wouldn't load. The screen that says windows with the blue bar in the middle scrolling will do that for about a minute, then it will freeze up at that screen. It did this to me once before I had left, but I simply restarted the computer and everything came back working fine. Now it keeps getting stuck on that screen. If I start my computer in safe mode everything comes up like it should in safe mode. I am thinking this would be a software problem, is that correct?

Any ideas what I should do to fix this problem?

[SackAttack]

My dad had this problem a couple weeks ago and ended up replacing several pieces of internal hardware.

It works now, although I don't know what the magic combination was.

[MizzouRah]

Sounds to me like a hardware conflict. What do have plugged into the usb ports? system slots (pci, agp, pci express)?

I would unplug anything you have plugged into the usb ports first, boot pc. If it still doesn't boot, reseat all pci cards and try again. Next, I would probably try one memory stick at a time, etc.

Also, I think in safe mode you can still see the event log. Check that out for any errors as well.

[Doug5984]

Ok so I started my PC in safe mode, played around some and tried updating some drivers.......
So now when I boot it- windows comes up right away like it shuold but then a blue screen flashes really quick- to quick to read it, and then it restarts and goes through the cycle again.

I'm lost now...any ideas?

[Deattribution]

Few things to try...

In safe mode check your device manager list (system properties/device manager) see if there are any listed hardware conflicts.

If you haven't already - pressing F8 (before the windows flash screen) at bootup and instead of selecting safe mode - selecting Last Known Good Configuration might help.

If you have your windows CD you can insert it and at the 'welcome to setup screen' press R for repair.

You could try running scan disk, check if there is a large amount of bad sectors.

Also, if you can think of anything you've installed prior to it stopping working - that could have possibly caused some sort of issue.

[MizzouRah]

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308041

[sterlingice]

Any luck on this so far?

SI

[Doug5984]

Any luck on this so far?

SI


Been very busy with school- I'm going to try to tackle it tomorrow when I get off of work, I'm hoping to have it all sorted out- I want to get back to my Civ IV !!!

Also- SI I wanted to talk to you some about HT, I have 35 million in the bank and I'm looking to get back into things...a Div V team with 35 million should be fun :)

[sterlingice]

Been very busy with school- I'm going to try to tackle it tomorrow when I get off of work, I'm hoping to have it all sorted out- I want to get back to my Civ IV !!!

Also- SI I wanted to talk to you some about HT, I have 35 million in the bank and I'm looking to get back into things...a Div V team with 35 million should be fun :)Yeah, just don't go nuts and spend it all in one place and you can actually make a team that could make III in 2-3 seasons.

SI