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re: XP hangs during boot
Wednesday, December 12, 2001 at 5:29 am
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Posted by richard (119 messages posted)


this board has to have the latest bios update off the abit site check msinfo 32 against the sites latest date for your board


On Wednesday, December 12, 2001 at 1:31 am, Max Liczewsky wrote:
>Hi,
>I really hope some of you guys out there can help me, since this problem drives me
>nuts.
>When I switch on the PC to boot XP, the machine will hang every time (the blue bar
>on the start screen stops moving, HD LED lit). This also happens in safe mode from
>time to time. After a few attempts booting the machine, I'll finally make it to the
>desktop, where everything is fine. Even rebooting is not a problem anymore.
>This problem only occurs if the PC has been switched off for quite a while, say a
>few hours, so it's gotta have something to do with stuff in the memory (?).
>I checked all the hardware, deactivated devices, nothing changed. I first suspected
>it has something to do with my board (Abit KT7-RAID) and the RAID driver, but I made
>sure I got the latest drivers. The only thing I didn't do is to install the RAID
>driver during installation, but XP detected the controller correctly so I thought
>everything was okay.
>Has anybody had similar problems? Any hints or helpful comments? Your help would
>be greatly appreciated.
>
>P.S.: My guess is that XP tries to address a device during boot, which often fails.
>XP will only boot normally when this device is finally addressed correctly, but what
>I really don't understand is that the PC *remembers* that this device is okay now,
>even after rebooting the machine after being switched off for a few minutes. Argh!!


Written in response to:
XP hangs during boot (Max Liczewsky: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 at 1:31 am)

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*re: XP hangs during boot (Max Liczewsky: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 at 7:27 am)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-XP hangs during boot (Max Liczewsky: Wed, Dec 12, 2001, 1:31 am)
*re: XP hangs during boot (Max Liczewsky: Wed, Dec 12, 2001, 1:45 am)
-re: XP hangs during boot (richard: Wed, Dec 12, 2001, 5:29 am)
*re: XP hangs during boot (Max Liczewsky: Wed, Dec 12, 2001, 7:27 am)
*re: XP hangs during boot (Larry D West: Tue, Feb 19, 2002, 9:11 am)
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