Just for the record, a set of symptoms on a new machine
which stumped me over a period of months, none of them
occurring regularly enough to prevent use of the computer :
* bsods
* slow booting
* memory dumps - with mention of a different driver each
time
* refusal to boot, stopping at the bios screen or at a black
one with a cursor, requiring a hard reset
* the Windows flash screen showing extremely dimly while
booting very slowly - you could easily miss the "Windows"
text if not paying attention
* going away for a period of a minute or 2, not long after
booting to xp, - no activity, no response to mouse or cursor -
then working fine the rest of the day
* regular long wait while closing down at "Closing Windows"
stage
I did all the usual tests - as outlined by Julio.
The culprit ?
A hard disk, actually an Intel ssd. I replaced that and the
troubles stopped.
Until, ironically, I sat down to write this - when another
bsod occurred. Just hope that's an isolated case.
which stumped me over a period of months, none of them
occurring regularly enough to prevent use of the computer :
* bsods
* slow booting
* memory dumps - with mention of a different driver each
time
* refusal to boot, stopping at the bios screen or at a black
one with a cursor, requiring a hard reset
* the Windows flash screen showing extremely dimly while
booting very slowly - you could easily miss the "Windows"
text if not paying attention
* going away for a period of a minute or 2, not long after
booting to xp, - no activity, no response to mouse or cursor -
then working fine the rest of the day
* regular long wait while closing down at "Closing Windows"
stage
I did all the usual tests - as outlined by Julio.
The culprit ?
A hard disk, actually an Intel ssd. I replaced that and the
troubles stopped.
Until, ironically, I sat down to write this - when another
bsod occurred. Just hope that's an isolated case.