Flashing during XP loading

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

It could just be the video drivers loading, I have seen this on PC's at work
and they carried on working no problems.

Neil
"Mike-E" <MikeE@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
newsA85B178-F621-4C36-AAC5-A0FDD084ED5B@microsoft.com...
> Just did a fresh copy of XP (yes, I formatted the disk) and have noticed
> when
> the Windows banner (indicating XP is loading) is finished there is a pause
> of
> several seconds prior to the Welcome screen coming up. During this pause
> there are several flashes like something is about to come up on the
> screen.
> After the flashes the screen goes black, then the Welcome screen comes up.
> Is this something that is the forerunner of a problem down the road or is
> this something I shouldn't be concerened about ? I've not seen this
> problem
> on any other XP install that I have done...so, makes me think something is
> not well and needs to be fixed.