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RE: Boot & Freezing Problem

MeowCat — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:55:57 GMT

RichieUK, thank you so much for the detailed response! I'll have time tomorrow morning (maybe some tonight) to do all this stuff and give it a shot.

...much appreciated.

RE: Boot & Freezing Problem

RichieUK — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:34:41 GMT

With your Microsoft Windows XP install disk in the cd-rom drive,boot to the [b]Recovery Console[/b].
At the prompt type [b]chkdsk /r[/b] then press Enter.
Be patient and allow chkdsk to run until its finished.
The process could take an hour or more.

Check in Device Manager,are there any problems displayed there.

Click on Start/Run,type [b]eventvwr[/b] then press OK
Check in the System and Application logs for errors.
Double click on each error,see if there are any clues there as to whats causing the issue.

If still no joy,do the following:
Download [b][url=http://download.bleepingcomputer.com/hijackthis/HJTInstall.exe][color="red"]Trend Micro HijackThis 2.0.2[/color][/url][/b] to your desktop:
Double click on HJTInstall.exe,it will prompt you to extract hijackthis.exe to C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\HijackThis.
When the install is complete,HijackThis will automatically launch.
When the license agreement appears,select "I Accept" and then click on the "Do a system scan only" button.
When the scan is complete,click on the "Save Log" button,then save it to your desktop.
Copy and paste the entire contents of that log into a new topic in the [b][url=http://forum.tweaks.com/forum/Forum29-1.aspx]HijackThis Logs forum[/url][/b],[b][color="red"] not here.[/color][/b]

Boot & Freezing Problem

MeowCat — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:58:06 GMT

I recently moved my computer to another room (the basement, sniff sniff) and it worked fine for an entire night. However, the next day I performed a search for a document. It hung there for hours. It would not reboot. Eventually it did after approximately 7 hard boots. During those attempts it usually hung/froze on after the windows logo but once it hung before that process and at another point.

The ONLY other recent issue is that it seems like my applications are running a little slower. A couple have locked up within the past month but it’s only been a couple times.

I assume this is a Windows XP thing but I am not sure.

Can any offer some suggestions?