hi all. my system is p4 2ghz, xp sp2, 256mb pc2100. i have 2 problems.
1) this pblm started after i did a reinstall of windows some time back. my system works fine now but for one thing. at every boot after its done post, the screen goes blank/dark/black for about 40 seconds, then a white progress bar appears at the bottom of the screen and only then does the windows logo with the blue progress bar appears. from then on its smooth sailing, a few seconds till the welcome screen and i'm in windows.
2) this hasn't happen for a few weeks now. sometimes while in windows the pc reboots by itself but during post it wont recognize the hd. like nothing connected to the ide cable. it'll only work again after disconnecting/reconnecting the ide cable.
the original pblm before i reinstalled was that the pc would suddenly reboot itself and it would get to the windows logo, then blue screen with error msg, then reboot again. and the loop continues. i could only fix it after reboot with another hd (master) and running checkdsk on my hd (slave). now after reinstall that pblm has gone away but the startup thing happens.
my software before and after the pblm started is the same. no changes in startup tab in msconfig. i tried unchecking everything except antivirus but no diff. used spybot, ad-aware, crapcleaner, antivir and avg (not both at the same time) and online trendmicro scan. also ran checkdsk a couple of times. no changes.
i know my ram and proc is not the best but the time it takes to get to the welcome screen now is about the same as another pc here with a p3 <1GHz 128mb. previously it took only a fraction of the time. the whole process till the welcome screen minus the blank 40 seconds. surely somethings wrong here.
so sorry if the explanation was too long. can someone help please?
1) this pblm started after i did a reinstall of windows some time back. my system works fine now but for one thing. at every boot after its done post, the screen goes blank/dark/black for about 40 seconds, then a white progress bar appears at the bottom of the screen and only then does the windows logo with the blue progress bar appears. from then on its smooth sailing, a few seconds till the welcome screen and i'm in windows.
2) this hasn't happen for a few weeks now. sometimes while in windows the pc reboots by itself but during post it wont recognize the hd. like nothing connected to the ide cable. it'll only work again after disconnecting/reconnecting the ide cable.
the original pblm before i reinstalled was that the pc would suddenly reboot itself and it would get to the windows logo, then blue screen with error msg, then reboot again. and the loop continues. i could only fix it after reboot with another hd (master) and running checkdsk on my hd (slave). now after reinstall that pblm has gone away but the startup thing happens.
my software before and after the pblm started is the same. no changes in startup tab in msconfig. i tried unchecking everything except antivirus but no diff. used spybot, ad-aware, crapcleaner, antivir and avg (not both at the same time) and online trendmicro scan. also ran checkdsk a couple of times. no changes.
i know my ram and proc is not the best but the time it takes to get to the welcome screen now is about the same as another pc here with a p3 <1GHz 128mb. previously it took only a fraction of the time. the whole process till the welcome screen minus the blank 40 seconds. surely somethings wrong here.
so sorry if the explanation was too long. can someone help please?