The first thing that comes to mind is that a device may be conflicting
somewhere along the line on start up.
If you go to control panel/system/device manager and click on that, you
should be able to see if there are any yellow exclaimation marks there. If
there are, remove them, and restart.
If not, try removing all of your devices, and then restart, and then the
computer will reload all the devices it needs as it starts up again. (It
might take a while to load them all, but that's a one off)
Hope this helps
Michele Sayer


----- Original Message -----
From: "Kris Farley" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2003 10:43 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Question


I have a new computer my son put together for me, as a Christmas gift, using
XP. A couple of months ago, when I would shut down and restart or just plain
turn it on, it would boot to the icons, but not quite fully, then freeze and
shut down , then start all over again. It will do this several times before
finally booting all the way and not freezing. I would get the usual message
to send or not send to MS. I did click on send the first time, got the
message back that some driver was needed - I downloaded that and still I get
the same thing, so I leave the computer on most of the time now.

Any ideas what is causing it to freeze at boot up like that? Initially, I
had downloaded a spybot program, so I figured that was the problem. I
uninstalled that and still the problem persists. Maybe the spybot software
started it: I don't know. It works fine when left on. I just walk away when
I am waiting for it to boot up until it finally goes all the way. It's
annoying though. I would like to figure this out.

In God's love
Lynn and Kris
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Conrath, WI

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