here's one i've never seen before ... (but then again, aren't they all?!). this has happened three times now; the first time my os got corrupted shortly after and had to be reinstalled. i thought i had diagnosed the hd as the problem; now it has happened again twice is a single day after the system being stable for several weeks. what am i talking about?
on boot up, the machine gets as far as the win xp splash screen, with the bar of moving blue dashes. then it hangs - no moving dashes, have to do a hard reset to reboot. the wierd thing, the thing i'd never seen before, is that the screen is very faint - not the full colors like you're used to seeing, but very faint and washed out image - almost like in the old days when an image would get burned into the crt.
i don't even have a clue where to begin debugging this one. any ideas?
thanks,
joe
on boot up, the machine gets as far as the win xp splash screen, with the bar of moving blue dashes. then it hangs - no moving dashes, have to do a hard reset to reboot. the wierd thing, the thing i'd never seen before, is that the screen is very faint - not the full colors like you're used to seeing, but very faint and washed out image - almost like in the old days when an image would get burned into the crt.
i don't even have a clue where to begin debugging this one. any ideas?
thanks,
joe