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XP hangs at starting windows logo

by raysavage May 23, 2005 6:21AM PDT

I am running win-xp-he. I added a Maxtor 120gb hd configured as slave. XP boots to "starting windows" Logo Screen but never completes loading. It doesn't seem to be locked-up - I can move the mouse cursor freely. I have let the PC run for an hour but it remains at this screen. I tried starting in Safe Mode, but the same thing happens. I have double checked the hd jumpers. All drives are present in the BIOS and configured properly. I tried the slave hd in another computer and it works fine.When I disconnect the slave hd, XP boots normally. What could be the problem?


Thanks,
Ray Savage

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Just a note.
by r. proffitt Former Forum moderator May 23, 2005 6:28AM PDT

Today's drives usually attach with 80 conductor cables that you would set the drive to CABLE SELECT.

Your choice.

Bob

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Cable Select
by raysavage May 23, 2005 7:47AM PDT

Bob:

Thanks for your response. The slave is connected with 80 conductor cable and is configured is cable select.
Any other ideas?

Thanks,
Ray

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How about the other drive?
by r. proffitt Former Forum moderator May 23, 2005 7:56AM PDT

And what about the host? Is it's BIOS current enough to support this?

Bob

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boot.ini
by phantazy May 23, 2005 5:36PM PDT

If you boot with the slave drive not present, you can edit the boot.ini file to check the set up at start. Typically:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect

If your XP installation is ok, connect the slave and reboot.

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The other drive
by raysavage May 24, 2005 1:06PM PDT

Bob:

Thanks for your reply. The other drive is also set "cable select"

Thanks,
Ray

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safe mode
by reeveboy May 23, 2005 8:18AM PDT

try running your computer in safe mode and then do a system restore.

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Safe Mode
by raysavage May 24, 2005 1:19PM PDT

reeveboy:

Thanks for your reply. I tried this but system stops at same screen.

Thanks,
Ray

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this happened to my friends computer
by Saintman May 23, 2005 10:45AM PDT

It was an old desktop, he never bothered to solve the problem, he was about to upgrade to a laptop anyway. If none of the other suggestions work try repair-installing windows XP, or maybe testing to make sure that the RAM is working correctly.

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Xp hangs
by raysavage May 24, 2005 1:23PM PDT

Saintman:

Thanks for your reply. I may just try reinstalling xp.
Best regards,
Ray

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