re: Dual Boot Hanging on Boot Problem
Monday, September 26, 2005 at 2:51 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by JT
(61 messages posted)
This is a very long-shot, but I've had some some USB devices exceed the USB
power limit. If you are using a USB keyboard, hitting a key may be causing a similar
problem. In my case, plugging the device into a different USB port worked.
Hope this helps,
JT |
On Saturday, September 24, 2005 at 3:59 pm, Bill Olson wrote:
>I have a dual boot system Win 2K SP4 and Win 98SE. I changed mother boards about
>two weeks ago and ended up having to repair my Win 2K installation. Ever since,
>I've been getting some odd behavior on boot. Win 98 boots fine, but Win 2K intermittantly
>hangs on the boot menu.
>The boot.ini is set to default to Win 2K, if I just hit enter to bypass the countdown,
>it just hangs on the boot menu and does nothing until I reboot the machine (it doesn't
>even respond to Ctrl+Alt+Del, I need hit the reset button). Often if I wait a second
>or two and hit the up and down arrow to select Windows 98, then back to Win 2K,
it
>will boot when I hit Enter. Though not always. It almost always boots OK when
I
>let it count down, but it hung this morning one second into the count. If I do
anything
>like selecting boot logging or safe mode it boots every time, so I am having trouble
>debugging this one.
>Does anybody have any ideas about this one? I hate intermittant problems...
>Thanks in advance,
>Bill
|
All messages in this thread [show all]
 |  | re: Dual Boot Hanging on Boot Problem (JT: Mon, Sep 26, 2005, 2:51 am) |
| |
| |
| |
Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum
|
|
