start up win xp home edition

when starting up computer at login window it won't go in to desktop it just set's loading windows login screen I have to shut computer off and restart 2 or 3 times before it will go to dekstop .

thank you

 

Win XP Home ED. Start up

I made no changes to computer , I shut it off well I was gone up north for the summer come back after Christmas and this started happening sometimes the Monitor don't show anything and I have to restart the computer to get the monitor to work.

 

Hi Bob,

I think you may be experiencing the beginings of a hardware failure - either the Monitor or the video card.

You can start by testing using XP's built in diagnostic:

Start > run > type dxdiag > ok.

Let us know what results you get.

Regards - Charles

 

Does the monitor indication light (usually green) comes on? Is it yellow & blinking?

 

Win XP Home ED. Start up

Hi

I run( dxdiag ) and it said no problems on all the test .

 

Hi Bob,

You don't seem to have straightforward problems

Can you answer rsinfo's question?

Do the obvious, make sure that the cable hookups to the Monitor are tight.

If you feel comfortable with going into the case, re seat the video card - be careful, pull it out slowly, exerting even pressure pulling out and pushing back in.

Look at the status of the Monitor and video card in DM:
Right click My Computer > properties > Hardware > Device Manager.

Expand Display Adapters > Right click the video card > properties, gives you the status.

Same with the Monitor.

Regards - Charles

 

Win XP Home ED.

Hi I talk for 2hours with support Microsoft last night and we did everything to get computer fix nothing they did could fix it so they said its a hardware problem who know's what.

Well working with support we tryed to boot off the windows xp cd but when restarting computer would not reboot off cd so went into setup bios to make cd the default and its not in there I have floopy but no cd to make it so it would reboot off cd so what do I do ?

Thank you for all

 

Hi Bob,

I find that, to say the least, strange that the BIOS wouldn't have booting from the CD Rom as an option.

Download SIW: http://www3.sympatico.ca/gtopala/about_siw.html - it's an execute, no need to install.

It'll give you all sorts of info on your system, one of which is the BIOS version and will be a reference when people will ask for info on system specs.

EDIT: I just looked at SIW again, it'll tell what boot devices the BIOS supports. Copy/paste it here along with the version.

I'm leaving town for 3 weeks, so I'll be around only intermittently.

FWIW, this system is in Forida - bad climate for electronics, and I asume idle a good deal of the time. So do agree that it is some sort of hardware malfunction.

Regards - Charles