Anyone come across this?
My (work) laptop starts to boot thenafter the preliminary load, that is the WinXP logo drops off to be replaced by the login prompt, the screen goes black and that's it. Can't go any further.
I got around it by rebooting in safe mode and reinstalling the graphics drivers. Restart, no problem. Only now it's done it again and i can't even get in through safe mode. Get the pop up saying windows is starting up and it hangs right there.
Any clues?
"You want loyalty? ......get a dog!"
possible HDD corruption therefore killing your drivers????
He wouldn't see the login prompt if this was the case.Originally Posted by Flash
He would if it was intermittant, also arent the drivers still loading whilst getting to the login prompt?
iirc the drivers have loaded by time it hits the login screen hence the resolution and refresh rate change from the boot logo to the login screen. Otherwise windows drivers wouldn't be able to support high refresh rates and high resolutions.
Ok well from here I would suggest that maybe the correct display drivers are not being used.
I have had issues in the past with laptops that need the official display drivers from the manufacturer rather than the actual card drivers.
I get the boot logo. It dies at the login prompt, that is it doesn't display the login prompt. We've rebuilt it once and I think it is as flash says, HDD corruption. That was going to be the next option but I figured I'd try and exhaust other avenues first.
"You want loyalty? ......get a dog!"
when you say rebuilkt - was it a brand new clean partition rebuild or just a reinstall of xp?
if its hard disk corruption you shhould get like norton diskdoctor or sumthing to analyse it - its not bad at picking errors up.
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