Re: Need help, strange PC behavior, no go to desktop

I never even thought of that. Thanks, I'll check.

"Marty" <martywoyzak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 07:16:28 -0500, ~AlicGinnis~ wrote:

Hi,
This is a neighbor's hp pavillian circa 2000 running xp pro on 20 gig
hard drive with 256mb ram and 4x optical. The button battery may be
dead, not sure. Will check it later.
Symptom: Boots to logon window, then when you click on acct name, it
starts to load xp and then reverts to the logon screen. Does the same
in Safe mode.
What I tried prior to this post:
pulled the drive and put it in test bed as slave and ran various anti
mal ware aps, virus and trojans found and repaired. Reinstall, same
problem. XP repair from install CD, after repair, hung prior to log in
screen. 3 attempts at full install frm 3 different xp cd's. Gets as far
as finishing formatting the drive, then reboots. From a dos prompt
zeroed the hard drive with clearhdd.exe then installed xp pro creating
new primary partiton, etc., and after format: same symptom. Tried with
xp home CD and XP pro CD. Same symptom: reboots after formatting c
drive NTFS.

Its not power, it runs all night without getting hot, or rebooting.

At this point I'm at a loss, any ideas much apprediated. Thanks,
Al

My sister's Pavillion had the *exact same* symptoms. The motherboard
capacitors had failed.



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