Freezing at Welcome Screen

[Gogs]

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Hi,

My PC is constantly freezing at the welcome screen. It's running a fresh
install of XP. When I installed it I wasn't at home and used a different
monitor, keyboard and mouse and it boots normally. When I got it home it
started to freeze at the welcome screen.

I've managed to boot in to safe mode and thought it may be a display setting
problem but when I check the setting the resolution is at 800 x 600 and the
colour is at 32 bit. I changed the colour setting to 16 bit and rebooted the
PC and it seemed to work. But on checking the settings it had reverted back
to 32bit. If I then power off the PC and leave it for an hour or so it will
only boot up to the welcome screen again before freezing and I have to go
through the same routine again.

I'm wondering if it is the display settings and I need to tell XP which
monitor I have. The Graphics card is a ATI Sapphire Radeon 9250? Or could it
be something trying to load up at normal start up that isn't being loaded up
in Safe mode?

Any ideas greatly appreciated.

Gogs

 

[Guest]

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Have you recently removed spyware?
http://www.lavasofthelp.com/articles/v6/04/06/0901.html

regards,
ssg MS-MVP

Gogs wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My PC is constantly freezing at the welcome screen. It's running a fresh
> install of XP. When I installed it I wasn't at home and used a different
> monitor, keyboard and mouse and it boots normally. When I got it home it
> started to freeze at the welcome screen.
>
> I've managed to boot in to safe mode and thought it may be a display setting
> problem but when I check the setting the resolution is at 800 x 600 and the
> colour is at 32 bit. I changed the colour setting to 16 bit and rebooted the
> PC and it seemed to work. But on checking the settings it had reverted back
> to 32bit. If I then power off the PC and leave it for an hour or so it will
> only boot up to the welcome screen again before freezing and I have to go
> through the same routine again.
>
> I'm wondering if it is the display settings and I need to tell XP which
> monitor I have. The Graphics card is a ATI Sapphire Radeon 9250? Or could it
> be something trying to load up at normal start up that isn't being loaded up
> in Safe mode?
>
> Any ideas greatly appreciated.
>
> Gogs

 

[Gogs]

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No, It hadn't even been on the internet since it was reinstalled. So no need
to have ran anything like that.

Thanks for the reply anyway.

"S.Sengupta" wrote:

> Have you recently removed spyware?
> http://www.lavasofthelp.com/articles/v6/04/06/0901.html
>
> regards,
> ssg MS-MVP
>
> Gogs wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > My PC is constantly freezing at the welcome screen. It's running a fresh
> > install of XP. When I installed it I wasn't at home and used a different
> > monitor, keyboard and mouse and it boots normally. When I got it home it
> > started to freeze at the welcome screen.
> >
> > I've managed to boot in to safe mode and thought it may be a display setting
> > problem but when I check the setting the resolution is at 800 x 600 and the
> > colour is at 32 bit. I changed the colour setting to 16 bit and rebooted the
> > PC and it seemed to work. But on checking the settings it had reverted back
> > to 32bit. If I then power off the PC and leave it for an hour or so it will
> > only boot up to the welcome screen again before freezing and I have to go
> > through the same routine again.
> >
> > I'm wondering if it is the display settings and I need to tell XP which
> > monitor I have. The Graphics card is a ATI Sapphire Radeon 9250? Or could it
> > be something trying to load up at normal start up that isn't being loaded up
> > in Safe mode?
> >
> > Any ideas greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Gogs
>

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general (More info?)

It seems to be a video driver problem.You have to reinstall/update the
video driver.

regards,
ssg MS-MVP

Gogs wrote:

> No, It hadn't even been on the internet since it was reinstalled. So no need
> to have ran anything like that.
>
> Thanks for the reply anyway.
>
> "S.Sengupta" wrote:
>
>
>>Have you recently removed spyware?
>>http://www.lavasofthelp.com/articles/v6/04/06/0901.html
>>
>>regards,
>>ssg MS-MVP
>>
>>Gogs wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>My PC is constantly freezing at the welcome screen. It's running a fresh
>>>install of XP. When I installed it I wasn't at home and used a different
>>>monitor, keyboard and mouse and it boots normally. When I got it home it
>>>started to freeze at the welcome screen.
>>>
>>>I've managed to boot in to safe mode and thought it may be a display setting
>>>problem but when I check the setting the resolution is at 800 x 600 and the
>>>colour is at 32 bit. I changed the colour setting to 16 bit and rebooted the
>>>PC and it seemed to work. But on checking the settings it had reverted back
>>>to 32bit. If I then power off the PC and leave it for an hour or so it will
>>>only boot up to the welcome screen again before freezing and I have to go
>>>through the same routine again.
>>>
>>>I'm wondering if it is the display settings and I need to tell XP which
>>>monitor I have. The Graphics card is a ATI Sapphire Radeon 9250? Or could it
>>>be something trying to load up at normal start up that isn't being loaded up
>>>in Safe mode?
>>>
>>>Any ideas greatly appreciated.
>>>
>>>Gogs
>>

 

[Gogs]

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Thanks for the reply, I was thinking along those lines myself. I guess I'll
try when I get home