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Win XP home - Black screen during start-up after windows logo.
I have a windows XP Home machine that developed an issue this afternoon, no hardware or software changes...
During normal windows boot-up the screen goes black with no cursor after the windows XP logo screen w/ bar finishes normal startup. I have let it sit for an hour to see if it would eventually make it through to no avail... The MSCONFIG boot.ini change to /sos goes through the black/white driver page fine then hanes in the blue XP screen with the microsoft windows Version 5.1, 1 system processor [1024 mb memory], but goes no further...
In MSCONFIG I tried turning off all start-up items(same lock-up), then tried turning off all but critical services(same lock-up).
I can start-up windows through safe-mode with no problems...
So my assumption is it's a driver issue - I thought it had to be the graphics card so I went the VGA route... same black screen...
Anyone have any ideas on what to try next? I am stumped...
During normal windows boot-up the screen goes black with no cursor after the windows XP logo screen w/ bar finishes normal startup. I have let it sit for an hour to see if it would eventually make it through to no avail... The MSCONFIG boot.ini change to /sos goes through the black/white driver page fine then hanes in the blue XP screen with the microsoft windows Version 5.1, 1 system processor [1024 mb memory], but goes no further...
In MSCONFIG I tried turning off all start-up items(same lock-up), then tried turning off all but critical services(same lock-up).
I can start-up windows through safe-mode with no problems...
So my assumption is it's a driver issue - I thought it had to be the graphics card so I went the VGA route... same black screen...
Anyone have any ideas on what to try next? I am stumped...
Does the eventvwr show anything?
Start > run > eventvwr select system this may provide some clues.
David
Start > run > eventvwr select system this may provide some clues.
David
can you boot up in safe mode?
it seems like something might have happened to your file system. can xp boot disc find the previous install?
it seems like something might have happened to your file system. can xp boot disc find the previous install?
Do a repair install of XP
If you can start it up in safe mode have you tried rolling back to a system restore point? Thats if it is turned on.
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Turns out it was just a corrupt external hard-drive that was causing all the problems. It was not the Z drive, but after removing all hardware piece by piece until the problem went away, the problem was coming from a failing SATA raid drive.
Thanks for the help...
Aaron
Thanks for the help...
Aaron
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Cannot determine file system of drive \??\Volume{70f7dda0-d30c-1
Checking file system on Z:
The volume is clean.