XP 'hangs' at Welcome screen

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kennlopez · #1 Post by **kennlopez** » Thu Nov 16, 2006 8:18 am

T42: My bootup seems to hang at the XP Welcome screen. I ran bootvis and found that the Logon+Service init takes almost 2 mins. How can I go into detail to figure out what's causing this?

Thanks!

christopher_wolf · #2 Post by **christopher_wolf** » Thu Nov 16, 2006 11:39 pm

Does it do the same when you boot it into Safe Mode?

The init processes should clear within a few seconds; if they don't, it usually means they are waiting for some resources, network, hardware, etc, to pop up and that isn't happening.

Does it do the same thing regardless of a live network connection or not?

kennlopez · #3 Post by **kennlopez** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 1:37 am

christopher_wolf wrote:Does it do the same when you boot it into Safe Mode?

Yes

christopher_wolf wrote:The init processes should clear within a few seconds; if they don't, it usually means they are waiting for some resources, network, hardware, etc, to pop up and that isn't happening.

That's my guess. Any idea how to check out what's happening? I did find a MS solution (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816873/en-us) but it didn't work for me.

christopher_wolf wrote:Does it do the same thing regardless of a live network connection or not?

I use a DSL connection so I have to 'dial up' each time I bootup. So I guess I don't have a live connection.

ennma · #4 Post by **ennma** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 4:59 am

hello there just my 2 cents,

you can try,

in msconfig, check the /noguiboot, (to make the splash screen disappaer)

then check the /sos box, this will show the drivers being loaded.

is this even helpfull, I am just trying here?

thanks

Dngrsone · #5 Post by **Dngrsone** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 1:24 pm

If it's doing the same whilst booting in Safe mode, then it suggests a hardware failure.

ronbo613 · #6 Post by **ronbo613** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 11:11 pm

I had the same thing happen on two computers in the past six months. In both cases, the hard drive was failing.

christopher_wolf · #7 Post by **christopher_wolf** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 11:19 pm

ronbo613 wrote:I had the same thing happen on two computers in the past six months. In both cases, the hard drive was failing.

Yeah, that has been the case whenever I have seen an older system, particularly a laptop, hang on the Welcome screen. Happened three times to 2 HPs and a Compaq of mine.

I would see if the OP could check the SMART attributes as well.

ennma · #8 Post by **ennma** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 12:59 pm

christopher_wolf wrote:
ronbo613 wrote:
I would see if the OP could check the SMART attributes as well.

Hey Chris What does this means, OP, SMART??

TY

#9 Post by **JaneL** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 1:35 pm

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