re: XP hanging at boot after HS cable install
Monday, January 19, 2004 at 6:43 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by MJB
(1166 messages posted)
Your best bet is to contact Tech Support for your
cable connection, they changed something and can probably
tell you very quickly how to change it back.
Good Luck,
On Sunday, January 18, 2004 at 6:38 pm, Clint wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I just upgraded this XP Pro SP1 box to High speed cable. The cable people used the
>ethernet card in the system to connect the modem. Now when the system boots, it
will
>hang after the energy star message. The only way for me to get the system to boot,
>is to then hit the reset button.(at which point the system boots as normal) This
>only happens on the FIRST BOOT on a cold system. After the system has been running
>for a bit, the problem seems to disapear. The computer is only about 1 month old.
>
>Does anyone have any ideas??........
>
>Ps, this only started happening AFTER the cable modem install.
>
>Thanks Much!!
>
>Clint
>
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