Posted 12/9/2007 09:12 (#255828 - in reply to #255738) Subject: RE: XP startup question
North Central Mo - Chillicothe
Have you made changes to the system lately? New software or hardware?
What you are describing is usually a bad hard drive. The system starts to boot, it gets read errors on the disk and starts re-trying. It looks like the system is locked up.
That's a guess, but one based on experience and history.