Windows Start-Up

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

Windows XP has failed to start up. It gets to the screen where it's loading (little bar moving back and forth), but as soon as that screen goes away, a blank black/really dark blue screen comes up, and stays there. It won't go past that point.

Help please?

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

Nevermind, it worked, after the fifth time or so. Just out of the blue (literally).

I wonder why?

[ArtistofWarfare]

That's strange...

In all of my boot ups, I've never had that happen to me...

[Ramses II CP]

How long did you wait before hard booting?

Probably fairly low odds of this, but my instinct would be to update virus definitions and schedule a full scan to run tonight. Sometimes a little glitch like that is just the price of using Windows, but sometimes it's more.

:egypt:

[TevashSzat]

This may or may not be related, but anyways like a month ago my comp started to just get stuck when loading the windows xp logos and safe mode just gets stuck at this one file.

So, I just searched for it online and found that there was an apparent error with Daemon Tools or Alcohol drivers on some comps that caused it. So I ended up having to run a check disk program from a floppy and fix it that way. After that, no more Daemon Tools for me simply because the check disk took so long

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

It's doing it again. I don't think it's viruses.

On the other hand, it did start after the blue screen, it just took a minute or so. This is really odd.

[Meldarion]

Have you updated your graphics driver recently, and what graphics card do you own/how old?

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

And it's working again...

I've got an nVidia 8800GTS.