Diane Kroeckel wrote:

> Dear Listers,
>
> I've had this problem for awhile I finally decided to ask about it.
> Sometimes, when booting up, my computer freezes on the Windows blue
> screen.  You can tell it's froze because the bar on the bottom stops
> moving, and the light on my CD drive is on.  A soft boot doesn't work.  I
> have to do a cold boot, sometimes more than once to get it going.

This could be the power supply, not enough power on the first boot to turn on
all the components.

> This
> started happening after I had a new HD installed.

Try another drive, perhaps this one is pulling too much juice.

HTH,

Jose

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