Windows 2000 Starting up... Hangs on 8 bars

[SteadySystems]

Installed WIndows 2000 and SP3 fresh on a new laptop but for some reason it hangs on the Starting up... portion. It hangs on 8 progress bars and does not go any further unless I power off. One out of every 4 power offs, it loads into Windows with no issues whatsoever.

Windows 2000 SP1
Averatec AMD Athlon 1600m
Brand New, happens on both new laptops, same config.

Please help.

Regards,

Daniel

 

[karmic]

sounds like you may have a driver issue... Check your event viewer when you boot up. see if there's any issues there.

Boot the system into safe mode, you'll see the list of drivers and files as they load. if it freezes on a driver, it may be your issue. Video drivers are famous.

Good luck

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[packdragon]

Karmic is probably right. I had a Windows XP laptop that would randomly freeze for no apparent reason. After installing all the latest drivers the laptop is now free of this problem.

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[SteadySystems]

The answer or fix for this problem is with mup.sys

I followed this link and edited registry and it worked for me:

http://support.novell.com/cgi-bin/search/searchtid.cgi?/2928430.htm

 

[SteadySystems]

I take it back, there is still an issue. It appears to be the video driver that is causing mup.sys to hang. I determined this by removing all drivers. Removed video driver last and was able to boot into windows with no problems. I reinstalled the video drivers, rebooted and problem surfaced again.

I searched for updated drivers but there are none for S3 ProSavage DDR. The averatec website has win2k drivers but they are the same ones as on the recovery cd. I also installed directx to see if that would help.

Problem still exists.. any help appreciated.

 

[karmic]

Sounds like it is a video driver... try forcing the install of a standard vga adapter. if it runs stable then you'll know.


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[karmic]

actually, I had a client drop off his toshiba laptop late yesterday... it's doing the same thing as what you are describing. Turns out the hard drive is dying. Check your event viewer for bad blocks or timeouts.

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[SteadySystems]

I doubt both laptops have bad hard drives, it has to be a video driver issue