Start up hang.

[006agent]

i am not sure what is causing this...
it boots into the splash of winme..then stops.for about 1 min..the goes to a black screen..then stops for a min...the boots.

please help

 

[jfall]

Do you have a NIC card?

 

[006agent]

yup..dlink dfe530tx

 

[jfall]

Usually network cards will cause windows to boot slower then normal, something to do with IP's, i'm not too clear on the subject.. someone else here should be able to clear it up for you

 

[Firefly]

Does it hang the same way when booting into safe-mode? Just curious if it's software or hardware related. Do you show to have any conflicts in device manager or have you recently added a new card or device? Have you modified CMOS in any way lately? Did it just start?



Firefly

 

[006agent]

was a fresh format...winme.

no mods in cmos..

 

[006agent]

it hangs right on the winme splash..and the secondary. black screen.

 

[006agent]

bump

 

[Barrak]

ok, one thing it could be is that it is trying to use DHCP to get an IP address, but if it is not connected to a server running DHCP via the nick card, it will hang for a minute or 2 during startup. To check on this, and to fix this, right click on Network Neihborhood and go to properties. Find the line that says TCP/IP->"your nic card here" ,highlight and click on properties. Under the IP address the obtain an IP address automaticly is checked, that is your hangup problem. To fix it, choose specify IP address and put some bogus IP address in such as 192.168.10.10 (that one specificly would have a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 )

this will not interfeer with any internet conections, but could mess up any network conections you have. You never mentioned weather or not this computer was networked.

 

[Firefly]

I believe you have a conflict of drivers. Not a IRQ conflict necesarily, but a memory address or I/O conflict. The pause at that point is the OS trying to sort it all out. Has the Nic or the sound card been forced into the settings you have them in? If not, I'd un-install the sound card and see if the pause goes away. If not, try the nic next. Experiment with this sort of process untill you find which card is causing the conflict.

Firefly

 

[Taz4158]

<< ok, one thing it could be is that it is trying to use DHCP to get an IP address, but if it is not connected to a server running DHCP via the nick card, it will hang for a minute or 2 during startup. To check on this, and to fix this, right click on Network Neihborhood and go to properties. Find the line that says TCP/IP->&quot;your nic card here&quot; ,highlight and click on properties. Under the IP address the obtain an IP address automaticly is checked, that is your hangup problem. To fix it, choose specify IP address and put some bogus IP address in such as 192.168.10.10 (that one specificly would have a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 ) >>


This should solve it.

 

[Firefly]

I don't profess to be the expert here but after the first winME splash screen and then the black screen that follows the OS is still loading. Only after that is where the network connection takes place. I believe it is PC specific hardware that is conflicting based on the original description of the problem. If it reaches the initial desktop screen before the icons are displayed and then hung I'd agree with the DHCP issue. I could be wrong.