Thank you Tom for the reply. One of the things I do not know how to do is
what do I do when I go into SAFE mode and the next is when I tried to use
the interactive start up---should I say yes to everything that comes up or
is there something specific I should look for?  The next thing ---I noticed
that when in msconfig---the process config.sys and process autoexec.bat
boxes are not checked and shaded and, there is nothing in the config.sys or
the autoexec.bat windows.Should there be anything there?  Changing the color
or resolution settings in the control panel does'nt seem to help. Also my
sound may come on or it may not on start-up. On any restarts all things are
normal and everything seems to work OK. If you need more just ask.  Hope ya
got some ideas on this one.  Thanks  Edwin Bogert


>From: Tom Turak <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List
><[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Boot problem
>Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 15:27:40 -0400
>
>Two things are happening when you see the Windows logo, the pc is shifting
>to 32bit mode, and the video is changing to your default graphics setting,
>say (800x600 and truecolor).  One or the other could be hanging.  A couple
>of boots into safe mode may help pinpoint the trouble. Or, from Start, Run,
>enter msconfig, and try a few boots with interactive loading, etc.  The
>hardcore method is to pull all non-essential hardware, and then start a
>pattern of booting up, then replacing one device, and booting up, etc until
>it starts hanging again.  Its not unheard of for the system to need a
>little
>heat to make a card or chip 'sit' properly in its slot, and all this
>hardware swapping will find that, too. I like to focus on the video,
>especially since some users mistakenly assume a 'hang' when in fact windows
>is quite healthy and running, only the video has stopped so you can't
>easily
>know that.
>Then again, a close friend of mine never bothered to fix this symptom in
>his
>P-iii and it ran without incident, and might still be if it hadn't been
>replaced with an athlon recently.
>Tom Turak
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Edwin Bogert [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 3:27 PM
>
>Here's one for all you thinkers.---When I first power up my computer, it
>goes about halfway thru the boot to the windows logo screen and then the
>screen turns black with an hourglass icon in the middle and just stays
>there. When I push the reset button it boots up to the safe mode screen. If
>I select normal mode it boots up to normal and from then everything is
>alright. Then, when I go to Start/ restart, it boots up normally.  In other
>words, the only time this happens is when I do a cold power-up. My system
>consists of the following:
>Acorp mobo with Via Apollo pro 133a chipset---via 686B
>64mb sdram
>celeron 633mhz fcpga
>SB Live Value Sound
>Diamond S540 Stealth III display adaptor
>Maxtor 27.5gb HD--with 2 identified bad sectors totalling 2.48mb
>
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