Windows XP SP3
Not really sure of the right section to post yet, so will start here first.
I power on the computer, it goes through the boot sequence showing it has recognised the primary master (hdd), secondary master (rom) and secondary slave (cddvdw) and then it just sits there in the boot screen. No activity light is showing.
The soft boot button doesn't do ANYTHING useful as it goes back to the same point again. I keep powering off completely and restarting, and after quite a few goes it seems to get over it and goes into the Windows startup screen.
Have run anti Virus/Spyware/Malware, cleared out unwanted files, and done a disk defrag but the same problem occurs.
At a bit of a loss now as to what could be causing this. Any suggestions?
Regards As no one has replied, l assume no one has any ideas then!
Not to worry as l think l may have it sussed (and it's sort of my fault), so for future reference, if anyone is interested....
I know my INTERNAL hdd is small but the other day, up came a MESSAGE to say l'm running LOW on disk space. Did a bit of a spring clean, moved a lot of files onto my external drive, thus reclaiming back nearly 50% of space.
Did a defrag and everything now seems back to how it was before.
So l suppose the lesson l have learnt from this is that if the pc really slows down, APART from doing the obvious virus/spyware/malware/file cleaning tasks etc, ALSO check on the amount of disk space used and disk space free.
Hope this is of help.
RegardsIt's been posted here many many times but just for your memory banks Windows needs approx. 15% free space to run properly...
And the errors that start happening don't always point to this being the culprit...

Thanx for the heads up and glad yer fixed...