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Are you getting the same results in Safe Mode?
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Are you getting the same results in Safe Mode?

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makes no sense to have black screen due to printer, probably there`ll be some other issue, please boot in safe mode, export eventlogs and attach it here.<br />
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also this KB could be helpful for your further troubleshooting <a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308041" rel="ugc nofollow">http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308041</a>
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makes no sense to have black screen due to printer, probably there`ll be some other issue, please boot in safe mode, export eventlogs and attach it here.

also this KB could be helpful for your further troubleshooting http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308041 [http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308041]

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That was it -- thank you so much!
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I have a Windows XP machine that just started freezing at the start up screen. &nbsp;The system boots up and then gets to the screen that says &quot;Windows is starting up...&quot; and just hangs there. &nbsp;I took it to a PC shop that I like -- they put in a new video card and said that was the problem. &nbsp;When I hooked it up at home the same thing happened. &nbsp;So I took the machine back and they looked at it again and said it booted up just fine for them. &nbsp;They suggested that maybe I had a printer hooked up and turned on when I booted the system. &nbsp;I did so I made sure the printer was off this time. &nbsp;Same thing. &nbsp;Is there something else that could be causing this?
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I have a Windows XP machine that just started freezing at the start up screen.  The system boots up and then gets to the screen that says "Windows is starting up..." and just hangs there.  I took it to a PC shop that I like -- they put in a new video card and said that was the problem.  When I hooked it up at home the same thing happened.  So I took the machine back and they looked at it again and said it booted up just fine for them.  They suggested that maybe I had a printer hooked up and turned on when I booted the system.  I did so I made sure the printer was off this time.  Same thing.  Is there something else that could be causing this?

Windows XP frozen at start up screen

Microsoft Windows XP is the sixth release of the NT series of operating systems, and was the first to be marketed in a variety of editions: XP Home and XP Professional, designed for business and power users. The advanced features in XP Professional are generally disabled in Home Edition, but are there and can be activated. There were two 64-bit editions, an embedded edition and a tablet edition.