Microsoft Windows' logo, then that blanks out and hangs. What I'm used to seeing next in a correct startup would be the cursor appearing just before the blue 'Windows XP' screen and then the user login display. Upon hanging, the hard drive light flickers...

hard drive up, and run the computer with it reting on it's side, then you might want to turn your tower on it's side, and place the extra hard drive on the cage that holds the installed hard drive... just put it METAL down...trust me, other side down will...

8800GTX Power Supply: PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750 Quad Memory: G.SKILL 2GB (4 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (5-5-5-15) OS Hard drive: Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3160815A 160GB 7200 RPM Storage Hard drive: Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3500641A 500GB...

my bad, I misread your post. How far is the XP installer getting, is it hanging immediately or does it get as fare as device detection? I have seen the XP installer hang when a hard drive contains a corrupt/extended or Linux partition, the only way round...

boot/startup partition (the entire C drive), create a new one (the entire C drive), and format the partition in NTFS (standard, not quick). THE PROBLEM: Both methods start, but after about an hour, the formatting progress hangs at 2%. The hard drive...

Vista hangs then HDD clicks and Vista resumes.. Hi there! I just last week upgraded my build and installed Vista (32bit Home Premium). Since the first time I logged in, I would get these random 3 second or so hangs, then the my hard drive would click and everything...

Restarting. Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain () When I click on the Restart button the pc does the normall shutdown but stays at the blue screen showing Restarting computer and hangs. the hard drive light stops flashing....

before ever...it seems it's own fan was running at top speed. I had to do a hard reset. 3) Upon booting up, when detecting the harddrives, the motherboard did not detect any and just hang. I had to do a hard reset. 4) Error code 0000007f, parameter1 00000000,...

freezes. It's not the graphics card that's hanging either; hard drive activity stops at the same time. Safe mode is the same thing; I see the safe mode intro screen, but it hangs almost within half a second thereafter (I can manage to move the mouse slightly...

it's hanging> while it gets something off the hard drive then, after it gets it, the game > doesn't >hang anymore because it got what it needs. Like maybe textures. When I move > into > new area's of the map, the hanging starts again. It's simply...