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| I was doing some small tweaks in windows, and in addition I installed some "hardware" (windows added usb drivers for 4 new ports that it recognized). After that (not sure exactly what), my windows xp sp2 has added an absoluletly pointless 10 second black screen before it shows the welcome sign when booting.
I've tried disabling startup programs and services and whatnot, and it still goes to that black screen for no logical reason (humanly logical that is).
Anyone have this problem? or know what might be going on? Or it would even be helpful if I could find a way to figure out what exactly I did to cause the delay.
btw I tried system restore and it didn't fix the problem, so my brain says 'hardware', but i don't know
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| What 'small tweaks' did you do? Have you tried reversing them? The only time I've seen what your describing was when I added sp2 but had an old video driver (I had a 3 1/2 min blackout). How does the device manager look? Have you removed the new usb hardware to see if that makes a difference?
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| exTI (9/21/2005)
What 'small tweaks' did you do? Have you tried reversing them? The only time I've seen what your describing was when I added sp2 but had an old video driver (I had a 3 1/2 min blackout). How does the device manager look? Have you removed the new usb hardware to see if that makes a difference?
well i don't remember them, its hard to distinguish whether or not i did certain tweaks before or after the problem happend. Some include, disabling KernelFaultCheck from startup. Also I think I installed the RealTek a97 driver bundle thing. I also disabled a few things in the Admin Tools>Services, but I think that was after.
Well, as for the vid driver thing, I'm using NVIDIA's latest driver for my card, 78.01.
device manager: has 4 things under USB.
I've tried removing the physical usb hardware, and it didn't fix it. (I unplugged the computers case's usb ports from the mobo)
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| The device manager looks as good as it can get. If your not using any infared devices or firewire (1394 controller) try disabling those (in devive manager) for testing. You can always re-enable them.
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| | tried your advice of disabling firewire and infrared, .....no dice |
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