For months now I've been having some serious issues with booting up Windows XP. After I log in the whole system hangs for about half an hour. Some of my launch applications have loaded and the icons are visible in the lower right, some have not. There is no hard drive activity, and as far as I can tell, no CPU activity. Normally I can hear my CPU fan spin up faster when there is any sort of CPU usage around 50% and I can't hear this.
The strange thing is how some things are still responsive. Any applications that have already loaded will behave normally. The taskbar appears normal, icons are highlighted when I mouse over them for instance. But as soon as I click an icon in the lower left quick launch, or press Start, the whole taskbar locks up with the icon in the 'mouse button down' state, and freezes like this until the whole machine suddenly comes back to life about half an hour later.
The desktop is the same, I can drag boxes over icons to select them, move them around, but as soon as I double click something to launch it, the desktop locks up as well, I cant draw selection boxes or do anything.
When it finally does awaken the hard drive resumes clicking away and everything finishes loading up like nothing happened. Any mouse/keyboard events that happened during the freeze are remembered and carried out after the freeze. So if I press ctrl alt del during the freeze nothing happens at all, but once it comes out of it the task manager will load up.
I've tried using microsoft bootvis, but it just crashes when I load it back up to look at the results.
I'm dual booting with Windows 7 on a seperate drive, which loads flawlessly and very quickly.
I've got no idea what to search for to try and find a solution, so here I am. Can anyone help?
Thanks for reading!
The strange thing is how some things are still responsive. Any applications that have already loaded will behave normally. The taskbar appears normal, icons are highlighted when I mouse over them for instance. But as soon as I click an icon in the lower left quick launch, or press Start, the whole taskbar locks up with the icon in the 'mouse button down' state, and freezes like this until the whole machine suddenly comes back to life about half an hour later.
The desktop is the same, I can drag boxes over icons to select them, move them around, but as soon as I double click something to launch it, the desktop locks up as well, I cant draw selection boxes or do anything.
When it finally does awaken the hard drive resumes clicking away and everything finishes loading up like nothing happened. Any mouse/keyboard events that happened during the freeze are remembered and carried out after the freeze. So if I press ctrl alt del during the freeze nothing happens at all, but once it comes out of it the task manager will load up.
I've tried using microsoft bootvis, but it just crashes when I load it back up to look at the results.
I'm dual booting with Windows 7 on a seperate drive, which loads flawlessly and very quickly.
I've got no idea what to search for to try and find a solution, so here I am. Can anyone help?
Thanks for reading!
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