Re: Why is my XP pro not booting?

I will try this thanks.
nos1eep <testing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 5 Sep 2005 12:44:05 -0700, "VelvetWhore" <soft@xxxxxxxxxx>
> spewed the following drivel:
>
> >Hi, I hope any of you that read this can help out. I have a XP pro
> sp2
> >system. AMD 1.5, 128meg ATI, Sound blaster live
> >It just recently has not been booting up. It will freeze on the XP
> logo
> >screen then the monitor goes into hibernation and goes blank.
> Sometimes it
> >won't boot at all .I looked inside and every fan, CD rom, dvd,
> monitor,
> >modem and sound are all working. I found that shuting off the power
> strip
> >off then on sometimes help in booting, but not anymore. I tried to
> clean
> >Bios with no luck. The system doesn't do anything now. I just turns
> on, the
> >board doen't beep but everything seems to be running.
> > Before this point it was freezing up. I looked at Task Manager and
> a 98%
> >cpu usage most of it went to System System. Scanned for virus and got
> >nothing. Scanned for Spamware ; it's clean.
> It can be a lot of differ ant things: mobo, RAM, graphics adapter, any
> component, really. Try a bare bones boot. Pull all the cards out of
> your system and disconnect your hard drives, optical drives, floppy,
> sect. If you have more than one stick of RAM just leave one installed.
> If you can find another graphics card to use for testing purposes, do
> so. Then try your boot and see what happens.
> You cannot tell by looking at solid state circuitry weather it is
> functional or not. You can however power up and touch RAM to see if
> it gets warm or not. If it stays cold, then it probably is trash.
> There are some flow charts at this link that will help you diagnose
> http://www.daileyint.com/hmdpc/manual.htm
> __
>
> -nos1eep


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