Systems Freeze on Bootup

Hi there,
My Brother In-Law is running an AMD K6-500 with WinMe.

He was having a lot of problems with the system freezing.

Now he is unable to turn his system on without Scandisk automatically coming
up then the system freezes at 12% (always 12%). He can't get into Safemode.

Question:
Does this sound like a hardware issue and if so what do you think it could
be?

Thanks
Carl

On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 03:28:08 GMT, "Carl R" wrote:

My Brother In-Law is running an AMD K6-500 with WinMe.

He was having a lot of problems with the system freezing.

Now he is unable to turn his system on without Scandisk automatically coming
up then the system freezes at 12% (always 12%). He can't get into Safemode.

Question:
Does this sound like a hardware issue and if so what do you think it could
be?

It definitely could be a hardware issue. If it were a bad driver, he
should be able to get into Safe Mode. Of course, WinME itself could be
hosed. It could be a number of things, including a bad mainboard.

Start by removing all adapters except the video card and see whether it
boots up. If it does, add the cards back until it goes kaflooey again.
Then you'll know which one was bad. It that doesn't work, it could be
RAM or the mainboard.

I wouldn't rule out a failing CPU, but they often outlast mainboards and
adapter cards.
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"Carl R" wrote in message news:cNhsb.32443$jy.21783@clgrps13...
Hi there,
My Brother In-Law is running an AMD K6-500 with WinMe.

He was having a lot of problems with the system freezing.

Now he is unable to turn his system on without Scandisk automatically coming
up then the system freezes at 12% (always 12%). He can't get into Safemode.

Question:
Does this sound like a hardware issue and if so what do you think it could
be?

Thanks
Carl

Freezing's a feature of M$ Windows but it doesn't usually happen at
startup :-)

I'm guessing that it's probably the HD a bit messed up. I would try
reformatting it or reinstall Windows. You will loose all of your
files though :-(

On 13 Nov 2003 09:29:31 -0800, (Peter)
wrote:

"Carl R" wrote in message news:cNhsb.32443$jy.21783@clgrps13...
Hi there,
My Brother In-Law is running an AMD K6-500 with WinMe.

He was having a lot of problems with the system freezing.

Now he is unable to turn his system on without Scandisk automatically coming
up then the system freezes at 12% (always 12%). He can't get into Safemode.

Question:
Does this sound like a hardware issue and if so what do you think it could
be?

Thanks
Carl

Freezing's a feature of M$ Windows but it doesn't usually happen at
startup :-)

I'm guessing that it's probably the HD a bit messed up. I would try
reformatting it or reinstall Windows. You will loose all of your
files though :-(

Yup sounds like a HD in need of defragging. Boot up into dos and try
running a defragger from there.

How do I do that with XP bypassing the auto-scan disk it wants to do on
bootup? It freezes at 12% while scan disk is running


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On 13 Nov 2003 09:29:31 -0800, (Peter)
wrote:

"Carl R" wrote in message
news:cNhsb.32443$jy.21783@clgrps13...
Hi there,
My Brother In-Law is running an AMD K6-500 with WinMe.

He was having a lot of problems with the system freezing.

Now he is unable to turn his system on without Scandisk automatically
coming
up then the system freezes at 12% (always 12%). He can't get into
Safemode.

Question:
Does this sound like a hardware issue and if so what do you think it
could
be?

Thanks
Carl

Freezing's a feature of M$ Windows but it doesn't usually happen at
startup :-)

I'm guessing that it's probably the HD a bit messed up. I would try
reformatting it or reinstall Windows. You will loose all of your
files though :-(

Yup sounds like a HD in need of defragging. Boot up into dos and try
running a defragger from there.

"Carl R" wrote in message
news:QEptb.50778$jy.48921@clgrps13...
How do I do that with XP bypassing the auto-scan disk it wants to do on
bootup? It freezes at 12% while scan disk is running

Create a DOS-bootable floppy, perhaps? (see command reference for FORMAT or
put a floppy in the drive, open a command prompt, and enter the command
FORMAT A: /S)

or

I think it still exists in XP - Go to the Control Panel, couble-click the
Add/Remove Programs, click the Startup Disk tab and then click the Create
Disk button. It will put together a nice bootable diskette with all the
tools you need for recovery and for supporting other command line
applications that might require HIMEM and/or EMM386.

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On 13 Nov 2003 09:29:31 -0800, (Peter)
wrote:

"Carl R" wrote in message news:cNhsb.32443$jy.21783@clgrps13...
Hi there,
My Brother In-Law is running an AMD K6-500 with WinMe.

He was having a lot of problems with the system freezing.

Now he is unable to turn his system on without Scandisk automatically coming
up then the system freezes at 12% (always 12%). He can't get into Safemode.

Question:
Does this sound like a hardware issue and if so what do you think it could
be?

Thanks
Carl

Freezing's a feature of M$ Windows but it doesn't usually happen at
startup :-)

I'm guessing that it's probably the HD a bit messed up. I would try
reformatting it or reinstall Windows. You will loose all of your
files though :-(

Yup sounds like a HD in need of defragging. Boot up into dos and try
running a defragger from there.

Ignore that, a fragmented drive will only run slow, it won't stop the
machine booting up. Anyway, you won't be able to defragment it!