re: Windows 2000 freeze at log on screen
Wednesday, November 8, 2006 at 2:31 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Steve Dunn
(910 messages posted)
without any background - other than couldn't run disk defrag (btw - why would you
want to - assuming ntfs filestore, it will make minimal difference to performance
and can often cause problems) - its difficult to advise here.
Is it a real 2k server (ie, running a domain with lots of workstations) or just your
PC running server?
You could try a repair reinstall:-
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;292175&Product=win2000
Have you added/removed any hardware? If you suspect one of the drives, and its not
the system drive, disconnect it and try booting without it. Extend this - disconnect
any hardware not essential to boot and try booting again. If > 1 stick of RAM, try
with each on its own (all methods of identifying troublesome hardware).
On Wednesday, November 8, 2006 at 2:31 am, Tin wrote:
>The computer seems to be freezing right before the login screen comes up, it just
>sits there. I have tried to reboot in safemode and the same problem arises in safemode....
>anyone have any ideas? The computer gets through the splash screen but right before
>the username/password screen comes up it freezes just before that point.
>
>I can see from that setup screen and splash screen that drivers are loaded, services
>are started, but the logon process doesn’t. I tried with safe mode (with or without
>networking) and also with Last Known Good Configuration. This marks the end of the
>early startup process. But the same thing.
>
>I thought one of the hard drives is corrupt so I even done the chkdsk/r from the
>recovery console. But the report says no bad sector or anything. I was going to
run
>fixmbr and fixboot but then for some reason FIXMBR doesn’t trigger anything.
>
>The think the start up registry is corrupted for some reason. Before I restarted
>the sever, I could see that I couldn’t run Disk Defrag. That’s the reason why I
restarted
>the machine and that’s why all this problem occurs.
>
>Since I have never installed Windows 2000 Server with Active Directory and Citrix,
>I am quite hesitant to format and reinstall everything although I do have all the
>data back up and system state back up.
>
>Any suggestion or help would be extremely appreciated.
>
>Thanks in advance
>Tin
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