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re: XP hangs during boot
Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 9:11 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Larry D West
(1 messages posted)
Does your BIOS have a setting called
"Plug and Play OS"? If it does then make sure it is set to NO. I had the same problem
on an intel D850MV board and changing that setting fixed the boot problem.
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!!
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- XP hangs during boot (Max Liczewsky: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 at 1:31 am)
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