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Title: locking up in winme bootup
Post by: Anonymous on December 12, 2000, 09:12:10 PM

I\'m having an intermittent problem booting up with WinMe. As the desktop starts the system stops and all I have is a mouse pointer (active) and the desktop background color displayed. If I reboot sometimes it works sometimes not, can take 2-3 reboots to get the system up. I\'ve checked bootlog and the problem seems to be occuring when the system tries to enumerate \"tapedetectiontapecontroller|0000\". No tape drive on the system.

Any ideas?

Title: locking up in winme bootup
Post by: Josetann on December 13, 2000, 09:05:43 PM

This is probably unrelated, but I thought I\'d try since no one else here seems to have problems with WinMe

I would have problems sometimes with WinMe booting, or just the whole PC itself.  Turns out it was the USB mouse I had (Intellimouse Explorer).  For some reason, it just gave WinMe fits, and whenever my PC restarted it\'d sometimes work, sometimes wouldn\'t.  Putting it on the PS/2 port fixed everything.

Other things to check, do you have all the recent drivers installed?  You can still boot in safe-mode and install new drivers.  Pay particular attention to the via 4-in-1 drivers (if you have a via chipset) and the video card drivers.  Also note anything that has an exlamation next to it in device manager.

Lastly, was this a clean install or an upgrade?  Upgrades can always be finicky, if you can\'t get it to work right, try backing up everything, then doing a fresh install.

Title: locking up in winme bootup
Post by: Anonymous on January 04, 2001, 08:15:48 PM

Thanks for the help. Found out that the problem was caused by the tape drive controller, possibly a corrupt .vxd file. Since I don\'t have a tape drive (and have no intention of getting one of those dinosaurs) I deleted the offending .vxds and all registry references. That ended the problem and as a bonus it shaved a good 20 seconds off my windows startup time.

Title: locking up in winme bootup
Post by: Anonymous on April 26, 2001, 04:39:34 AM

Thanks...I had the same problem with the stalling of ME....was trying to figure it out.  It really was bugging me and I couldnt track down the problem.  Funny that all it was is the stinkin USB mouse.....