Bear with me, this is a long story. I rehabilitated an older laptop with new memory and HDD and have installed XP.
Each time I turn it on the post and XP splash with the moving bar underneath comes up as usual.
Every other time I turn on the machine after the XP splash it goes to a blank screen. There is disk activity and the familiar music of XP having been loaded, but the screen is blank. No keys or mouse clicks have any effect. When I turn it off I hear the familiar music of XP having been shut down and there is disk activity supposedly saving the settings.
The next time things work as normally expected. After the XP splash the pointer appears and shortly the desktop appears along with the music of XP having been loaded. Things work normally. When I shut it down I see the message that says "Windows shutting down" and I hear the familiar music of XP shutting down and I see the message that says "Saving settings" and there is disk activity saving the settings.
It doesn't seem to matter if i shut down with software or simply press the on/off button. Every other time I get the blank screen. This is freaking me out. Does anybody have any suggestions
Each time I turn it on the post and XP splash with the moving bar underneath comes up as usual.
Every other time I turn on the machine after the XP splash it goes to a blank screen. There is disk activity and the familiar music of XP having been loaded, but the screen is blank. No keys or mouse clicks have any effect. When I turn it off I hear the familiar music of XP having been shut down and there is disk activity supposedly saving the settings.
The next time things work as normally expected. After the XP splash the pointer appears and shortly the desktop appears along with the music of XP having been loaded. Things work normally. When I shut it down I see the message that says "Windows shutting down" and I hear the familiar music of XP shutting down and I see the message that says "Saving settings" and there is disk activity saving the settings.
It doesn't seem to matter if i shut down with software or simply press the on/off button. Every other time I get the blank screen. This is freaking me out. Does anybody have any suggestions