Ok, I'm absolutely at my wits end on this and I'll give you the breakdown but first let me start by saying that I've been unsuccesful at having WinXP go into standby two consequtive times. This may be unrelated to my curret issue but I felt I had to mention this anyway. What happens is I'll cold start the computer, use it for whatever and put it into standby. Ok fine, its works when woken but if I try to put it back into standby it hangs on the "Windows is going to standby" screen.
That having been said I'll get to my real issue and the events that lead up to it: Yesterday I got home from work and woke the computer from standby. Everything was going well when I had to go back to work and I went to put it back into standby (having forgotten its going to hang...) When I realized that it had crashed again I hit the reset button, but thought better of it and held the power button down until the system shut down (by this point, the WinXP loading screen was up). When I got back, and powered up the system after the WinXP load screen would come up and I'd get the blue background of the login screen, but no login prompt. There's visible HD activity but after waiting 20 mins the login prmopt still doesn't come up. If you restart you get the option of Safe mode or normal start but both options render the same result: blue screen, but no login. What's going on, please help!
That having been said I'll get to my real issue and the events that lead up to it: Yesterday I got home from work and woke the computer from standby. Everything was going well when I had to go back to work and I went to put it back into standby (having forgotten its going to hang...) When I realized that it had crashed again I hit the reset button, but thought better of it and held the power button down until the system shut down (by this point, the WinXP loading screen was up). When I got back, and powered up the system after the WinXP load screen would come up and I'd get the blue background of the login screen, but no login prompt. There's visible HD activity but after waiting 20 mins the login prmopt still doesn't come up. If you restart you get the option of Safe mode or normal start but both options render the same result: blue screen, but no login. What's going on, please help!
