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Boot seems to temporarily hang
PC = Presario desktop, 1 gig ram, windows xp professional. when booting, my pc makes a whining noise and stops once windows is loaded. Sounds like a plane engine winding up. Recently upon powering up the PC it hangs for about a minute at the screen which displays COMPAQ in big red letters, I hear an intermittent grinding noise during this time. Usually this screen is visible for about a few seconds. After a minute Windows continues to load and the winding up noise stops and all is OK. I'm afraid that something bad will happen soon. Any ideas?
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as for the fan - it can also be a Power Supply that is failing - test with another one.
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Thanks greymirror. It was my Call to Duty 2 CD in my DVD ROM drive. I removed it and guess what?...no more noise and no more hanging at the COMPAQ screen. Boy do I feel stupid...lol
You're welcome. Glad i could help. :)
Check the disk with a diagnostic tool - there are some HDD diagnistics on the Ultimate boot CD http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ or check manufacturs web site eg
Seagate: http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/index.html
Western Digital: http://support.wdc.com/download/