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re: XP stalls sometimes on startup
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 at 10:32 pm
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Posted by Jacob6601 (1593 messages posted)

The little "safely remove hardware" sign indicates that USB drivers have loaded. 
If this normally comes up and za immediately after it, then za files might be on 
a failing cluster on your disk.
Overnight, run "chkdsk c: /r" = http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315265/en-us

If that doesn't work, try using msconfig to create a bootlog (boot.ini tab). When 
it stalls, wait about 5 minutes before restarting the boot so that the time lag is 
all you have to look for in that lenghthy log file. The file AFTER the lag is the 
one that needs to be traced back to an application and/or device.

Written in response to:: XP stalls sometimes on startup (Joshua Io: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 at 2:47 pm)

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re: XP stalls sometimes on startup (Joshua Io: Thursday, May 15, 2008 at 5:03 am)

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XP stalls sometimes on startup (Joshua Io: Wed, May 14, 2008, 2:47 pm)

re: XP stalls sometimes on startup (Sgt: Wed, May 14, 2008, 6:25 pm)

re: XP stalls sometimes on startup (Jacob6601: Wed, May 14, 2008, 10:32 pm)

re: XP stalls sometimes on startup (Joshua Io: Thu, May 15, 2008, 5:03 am)

re: XP stalls sometimes on startup (Jacob6601: Thu, May 15, 2008, 8:18 am)

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