Hi,
I am having some trouble with my old Dell Inspiron 8600.
I reinstalled Windows XP Home with the original Dell disk without any problems. I then installed drivers for de devices that isn't supported by XP (Graphics card, Wireless network card etc.). The drivers I got from Dells support site.
I also installede 2-3 common programs (Ultra Edit, Open Office ie.) and everything seemed to work fine.
But now, a couple of days later, Windows hangs at startup. By hangs I don't mean it freezes - it is displaying the Windows XP logo and the progress bar is moving.. and moving.. and moving..
You get the picture, it just stays like that forever - no error message, no failures, no nothing - just the logo and progress bar.
I can get into windows if I boot in safe mode - and even in Safe Mode with networking - and it "works" fine, but I can't find any error messages anywhere.
I was told there was a ntbtlog.txt log file in c:/windows I should take a look at - but that seems to be reset every time windows boots, so by the time I get into safe mode the info from the last boot is long gone
Do you guys have any idea where to look? It's kinda hard to debug without any error messages at all
Best regards, Lasse
I am having some trouble with my old Dell Inspiron 8600.
I reinstalled Windows XP Home with the original Dell disk without any problems. I then installed drivers for de devices that isn't supported by XP (Graphics card, Wireless network card etc.). The drivers I got from Dells support site.
I also installede 2-3 common programs (Ultra Edit, Open Office ie.) and everything seemed to work fine.
But now, a couple of days later, Windows hangs at startup. By hangs I don't mean it freezes - it is displaying the Windows XP logo and the progress bar is moving.. and moving.. and moving..
You get the picture, it just stays like that forever - no error message, no failures, no nothing - just the logo and progress bar.
I can get into windows if I boot in safe mode - and even in Safe Mode with networking - and it "works" fine, but I can't find any error messages anywhere.
I was told there was a ntbtlog.txt log file in c:/windows I should take a look at - but that seems to be reset every time windows boots, so by the time I get into safe mode the info from the last boot is long gone
Do you guys have any idea where to look? It's kinda hard to debug without any error messages at all
Best regards, Lasse