Computer freezes when it is starting up

[N0pers0nality]

My computer freezes when it gets to the point where Win 2000 is loading up.

Anyone know why?

 

[RDMustang1]

try the recovery utility on the cd... do a fast repair..

 

[DJFuji]

check your heat

 

[richierich]

Check in your BIOS to see if you have accidently disabled ACPI on your mobo. I did that once before and re-enabling ACPI fixed the problem that you are having. If there doesnt seem to be anything wrong in your BIOS try Win 2k's recovery utility.

 

[Mytv]

I had a problem like that one time when I editted something I wasn't suppose to on Win2k.
If you can edit your boot.ini file to add /SOS beside the /fastdetect
look something like WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect /SOS

/SOS Lists names of drivers as they load, so you migt find what's giving the problem or at least narrow it down.

 

[antipody]

I have been plagued by this problem since setting up my system a few months ago. I think I'm on the verge of an answer, at least for my system. Anyway, this might help you too.

For me the startup freeze actually stops if I wait for a few minutes. Rarely does win2k refuse to boot entirely. There are two specific points that the loading bar reaches before it can freeze for a few minutes. It seems to happen randomly, ie not at every startup.

I think I have narrowed it down to a my firewire PCI card. After reinstalling windows and then methodically adding all other peripherals, devices and drivers one by one with a fresh restart after each, I found this first when I put in the firewire card. Haven't yet got to the stage of pulling it out for any given period but when I do, I shall post to inform. I hope this is it, because no end of debugging to date seems to have pinpointed this problem.