WinXP Boot Hang up

[Harmakhis]

Hi guys,

I have a very odd problem: when I start my computer and it comes to the point where the loading screen of WinXP should come up, it just shows me a black screen with this little loading line you're used to know from DOS.

If I do a restart it gets me to the this selection screen where I can chosse between Safe Mode etc. Here normal boot up works.

To sum up: my pc only boots properly if I do a reset. But this really sucks because by doing this reset I damaged my MBR several times and got this nice BSOD saying "Unmountable Boot Volume". I fixed that with the repair console, but this booting hang up is still there...

My specs are:
1.4 Ghz Athlon TB
Elitegroup K7S5A SiS Motherboard
512 MB DDRAM
WinXP Sp1
and 2 IBM HDDs

[pickel]

http://grc.com/xpdite/xpdite.htm
Read and heed!!!!
Scroll down to " Service pack 1Caution "
You may want to uninstall SP 1.
No way I'm installing it on my new laptop.
I even ordered to CD from Gates & company.
if it ain"'t broke.......
Good luck

Read this too...
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,105144,00.asp

[Harmakhis]

Thank you, but I had this problem already before I installed SP1 - funny thing is that MS claims that my problem was fixed by SP1.