Hi Chelsea,

Okay I started thinking about drivers as per your reply. Before booting back
up in safe mode I deceided to remove the Yamaha Maxi Sound Fortissimo sound
card that I have been using in this system. Would you believe that Windows
started right up, with no problems. Now I have been isuing this card with Win
XP for years but when I originally installed XP home on this system I opted
for the upgrade install not a clean. I reinserted the card Windows installed
its included driver for the card, rebooted and Windows stalled at the logo
again. I took the sound card back out and Windows started. I'm not usuing
this card anymore for some reason XP did not like it. I enabled the onboad
sound card. Thank you for the help. As you mentioned drivers seemed to be
causing the problem. This was a first for me. TheYamaha card I was using goes
back to the Win 98 and ME days.

Thank You......
Charles R.
"Chelsea" wrote:

> Hi Charles,
> I have been thinking about the differences between Safe mode and normal mode
> with diagnostics enabled. What I suggest you do is go back into Safe mode
> and visit the Device manager. Make a list of all the devices on your system
> and disable them by right clicking the device-selecting properties on the
> General Tab go to the bottom and the device usage combo-box. Disable
> everything you can for your profile this will include DVD/CDrom drives,
> floppy controller, floppy disk drive, Secondary IDE controller, Network
> Adaptor, Serial and parallel ports any sound or cam/scanner device. Most USB
> keyboards come with a ps/2 adaptor plug which allows the ps/2 plug to be
> converted to plug into a USB port and the same is true of the mouse-if you
> have these adaptors Plug your mouse and keyboard into the PS/2 sockets
> rather than the USB ports-disable as many of the USB devices as you can
> under Universal serial bus controllers. Note that not all devices allow
> themselves to be disabled. Make careful note of everything you disable.
> Right now leave Safe Mode and attempt to start in normal mode and lets see
> what happens now!
>
> Chelsea
>
> "Charles" <Charles@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:45AF6831-4B47-46E9-AC20-1C068E0EF1E6@microsoft.com...
> > Hi Chelsea,
> >
> > Thanks again for the reply, I tried booting in VGA mode and Windows froze
> > at
> > the LOGO screen again. It didn't work. Thanks for trying to help me narrow
> > down the problem. I should have left well enough alone. I did try this.
> > Using
> > a linux OS BOOT CD Knoppix 3.9 which boots a complete os from the CD. I
> > did
> > this to see if I could replicate the same issue there, the Linus Knoppix
> > BOOTed into linux with no problem. All devices where recongized by Linux
> > including lan, network, graphics card and sound car. I use as a rescue
> > disk
> > when all elese fail this allows me to get to the data. Wish Windows had
> > something like this to troubleshoot. I been building systems for a long
> > time
> > and never had this problem, I'm at a loss, I wondering if I should swap
> > out
> > the newer MOBO and CPU and put the old one back in a see what happens.
> > What
> > do you think? Anything else you can thisnk of please let me know. I
> > appreciate your help.
> > "Chelsea" wrote:
> >
> >> That's a pity. XP in diagnostic mode is pretty like XP in Safe Mode with
> >> only essential services running. Hopefully someone might be able to make
> >> another suggestion. In summary you have done a clean install ie not over
> >> an
> >> existing version of Windows XP, and your motherboard was working properly
> >> with XP in the past. You can get into Safe Mode but diagnostic mode
> >> doesn't
> >> work. What happens when you press F8 at startup and instead of selecting
> >> Safe mode you select VGA mode?
> >>
> >> Chelsea
> >>
> >> "Charles" <Charles@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:6AC91F78-DB8E-46BB-AAAF-805382810052@microsoft.com...
> >> > Hello,
> >> >
> >> > Thank you for the reply. I selected SOS startup mode as you mentioned
> >> > and
> >> > the list of drivers loading went by so fast I could not determine
> >> > anything>
> >> > Then a blue screen came up stating the Windows XP build 5.1 2600 and it
> >> > read
> >> > 1 processor with 512 of RAM that was it. I'm not sure what this means.
> >> > But
> >> > it
> >> > did not boot past this screen.
> >> >
> >> > Charles. R.
> >> >
> >> > "de Graff" wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Assuming you can run this in safe mode
> >> >>
> >> >> msconfig.exe
> >> >>
> >> >> go to the BOOT.INI tab and select /SOS
> >> >>
> >> >> this will turf the boot screen and show you the drivers as they are
> >> >> being
> >> >> loaded. Chances are that you have a video driver problem.
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> "Charles" <Charles@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> >> news:1D07AC97-B296-4333-82F7-7128C1112E11@microsoft.com...
> >> >> > Hi
> >> >> >
> >> >> > I"m desperate for some Win XP help. My pc will not boot up normally
> >> >> > (period)
> >> >> > freezes at win logo screen every time. What is Windows loading at
> >> >> > this
> >> >> > screen? Boots in safe mode only. I have just finished a clean
> >> >> > install
> >> >> > on a
> >> >> > MOB and CPU which was working fine in another system. This was
> >> >> > happening
> >> >> > too
> >> >> > before I reformated teh hard drive and Win XP Home was installed.
> >> >> > If
> >> >> > some
> >> >> > one could point me in the right direction I would greatly
> >> >> > appreicated
> >> >> > it.
> >> >> > Could a driver, hardware componet or motherboard be bad? Never makes
> >> >> > it
> >> >> > past
> >> >> > the logo screen durning normal boot up.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Thanks
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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