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General Category => Software => Topic started by: Anonymous on July 02, 2002, 09:27:17 PM

Title: W2K startup problem
Post by: Anonymous on July 02, 2002, 09:27:17 PM

I have a dual Athlon running Windows 2000 Pro, with an nVidia geForce 3 ti200 graphics card.  On boot up, the system frequently (irregular, but once every 5 times or so) will get up to the point where the screen blanks momentarily as it switches to the selected video standard, and then either hang with a black screen or restart.  I have installed the latest drivers for the video card.  I see no relevant info in the event logs.

Is there a way to monitor the startup process more closely to figure out what is going on?

Thanks in advance...

Title: W2K startup problem
Post by: Fjellu on July 03, 2002, 03:48:10 AM

Have you tried updating the BIOS on the motherboard?

Title: W2K startup problem
Post by: Tracky110XP on July 10, 2002, 01:22:34 PM

this sound like you are running a multi-mon system here correct?

try changing your primary video card on the system.

also right-click my computer properties advanced, startup and recovery, and uncheck the auto reboot and change it to a kernal memory dump, this will allow for you to do more reaserch if you are getting a blue screen of death.