re: Problems Starting Up Windows Monday, December 25, 2006 at 11:19 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Rich Kurtz (12246 messages posted) This is almost always caused by defective memory (RAM). Memory will fail between power cycles. No rhyme or reason, just happens. Open your computer and see what kind of memory is installed. If there are two sticks of ram, remove one and see if you can boot. If you get the same error, put it back and remove the other then boot again. Replace the defective one. Be very careful when working inside the case. Always touch bare metal to discharge any static electricity before doing anythin in there. If there is only one stick of memory, download and run memtest86 for a couple hours (or more), see if it finds any memory errors. Usually avialable as a diskette image of a bootable CD image. http://www.memtest86.com/ Written in response to: Problems Starting Up Windows (D. Jones: Monday, December 25, 2006 at 10:40 am) Responses to this message: re: Problems Starting Up Windows (D. Jones: Thursday, December 28, 2006 at 9:32 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Problems Starting Up Windows (D. Jones: Mon, Dec 25, 2006, 10:40 am) re: Problems Starting Up Windows (Blue: Mon, Dec 25, 2006, 11:13 am) re: Problems Starting Up Windows (D. Jones: Thu, Dec 28, 2006, 9:27 pm) re: Problems Starting Up Windows (Rich Kurtz: Mon, Dec 25, 2006, 11:19 am) re: Problems Starting Up Windows (D. Jones: Thu, Dec 28, 2006, 9:32 pm) re: Problems Starting Up Windows (Rich Kurtz: Fri, Dec 29, 2006, 5:30 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum