Re: can't get xp to work right on cerleron 1.3 G cpu


"~Mike Hollywood" <bogus@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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HI,
This is driving me nuts. It's just a regular pc running xp, 256 mb ram, used only for
storing and viewing jpegs, internet browsing, and email.
20 gb hard drive, onboard sound and ethernet adapter. agp video card. 56k modem (which
I removed)

Here's what it does, loads to the point where windows starts to load the task bar (I
think that's what its called, you know, the bar across the bottom that has the clock in
it on the far right), and then it hangs. Repeated restarts sometimes gets it to the
desktop but when you click on an icorn the hour glass displays for a few seconds and
then dissappears, but the programs don't run. This all started after auto updates found
a bunch of updates and installed them. I did a restore point a couple of times, that
worked, and did the updates again with the same result. The last time, however, the
restore point didn't work. I could get to the restore points because f8 got me into
safe mode. AVG said there are no viruses present.

if it is booting in safe mode then there is a driver or startup software that is locking
things up. On board sound? disable it untill you get a good boot.




What i did next:: set bios to boot from cd and did an xp repair install, but it hung at
the same place.

Last attempt: formatted the drive, did a clean install, and it still hangs where it
begins to load the task bar?

Anybody have something like this happen before?

TIA

Mike

ps: Asus A7v mobo (I think)



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