[rowdog007007007]

Greetings all,

I have recently begun having a boot-up problem with Windows XP.

My Specs:

I have a Dell Workstation 370
XP Pro SP3
2.8 P4 HT
2 gigs ram
Radeon HD 4670 512MB PCI-e 16x

Recently upon rebooting, it will start to boot as normal, but before it hits the XP splash screen it will sit with only a prompt showing on the screen, and it appears as it is attempting to read from the floppy drive. After about 30 seconds, it will continue to the XP Splash screen, will get past it, and then sit idle on a black screen. At this point I have to remove the power to shut it back down, and attempt to boot again, only this time it will go to the option screen to boot in safe mode, last known good configuration, or as normal. Selecting boot as normal here allows it to boot up just fine.

The only things that changed on my computer before this started happening was that, I installed and played Champions Online a bit. I also updated to the most recent ATI drivers for my video card (although it rebooted just fine after installing the new drivers). The game crashed to the desktop at one point, and everything on the system was running slow, so I attempted to reboot, and it seemed locked up, so I pulled the power......this is when the problem occurred first to my knowledge.

As far as Champions crashing, I am pretty sure it was not because of my computer itself, but merely the game, as the crashes have been pretty commonly known to players at this point. However the problems loading up are new to me. Once I do get it loaded it does seem to run just fine however.

Not sure what is causing it, so I am just going through the motions here. Any ideas/help would be greatly appreciated. Info you need any more info, just let me know, and thanks in advance.

[jrodrig44]

I would run a check disk on your computer. You might have a problem with your file system. do a "chkdsk /r" (without the quotes) at a command prompt it will tell you that it cannot perform it at the moment do you want to schedual it for when you reboot type in "y" the command box should disappear. Then restart the computer. When it starts up it should be at a blue screen doing the chkdsk.

[rowdog007007007]

Thank you for the response, I went ahead and did that and ran the chkdsk, I also ran ad-aware before going to bed. It found a couple old virus remnants that were hiding in restore points.

I rebooted this morning to run the chkdsk....it ran normally, made a quick reboot upon completion, came back to the chkdsk blue screen (apparently at this point it was removing those 2 virus remnants from the system restore points, as it indicated it was removing those files), only at this point it hung. I gave it a good 20 mins, with no response, so I pulled the plug, and rebooted. At this point it went back to going through the chkdsk process again (I am guessing cause it never fully finished). Being short on time, I left for work, and upon returning home this evening it had finished booting up.

So it seems as though there were no chkdsk errors found. I've been hesitant to restart it this evening, as I am sure the chkdsk alone didn't resolve the problem (or could it have?).

Thanks again in advance for any help!

[rowdog007007007]

Problem is still persisting, any ideas anyone? Please help.

Thanks.