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I am having problems with my window xp setup. what it will do is it will turn pn, show the dell startup screen. then it will show the windows xp screen. after that is just stops. it doenst do anything and it none of the lights work. gateway helped me fix it once, but everytime you restart it it does it again. personally i think thsat it is a problem with the hard drvie, because to fix it you have to automatically redo the hd configuration. anyone with any ideas please let me know.

GL! This sounds like the same problem I am having with one of my rigs. Though, I've tried reinstalling XP and it goes as far as "starting windows" and then it hangs. But the comp will run DOS apps just fine, or at least it did before I switched cases, now I get nothing (could just be me overlooking something). I'm going to try and pick up another CPU and see what goes there.. GL though!! eGo

I just help my son fix his, except his would display a black screen after the XP screen flashed for a second or so. We performed a repair (the second one) from the install disk).

I'm not running XP, but I've seen and heard lots of people having problems with XP that I don't know if I want to install it in my rigs. I'm still running Win98 (very stable), and Win2k sp4 on my spare rig. Both of these systems I've had zero problems with, but I sure get asked about XP problems.

"quote" I'm not running XP, but I've seen and heard lots of people having problems with XP that I don't know if I want to install it in my rigs. "unquote"


Probably because so many people run XP, heard the same thing about every OS before this, when it was the "current" OS of choice. Will be the same when something mainstream replaces XP. I'd be willing to bet 95% are either operator error and/or ancient hardware/driver issues. Yeah, XP has lots of flaws, what doesn't? Remember how wonderful Win2K was early in the game? No? Finding working drivers was a major pain..........

An open mind is a wonderful thing, personally I work percentages. If I find things I don't like with a product, I look for good things that balance them out. If the good ones outweigh the bad by a large margin, do you still say it's a suck product? Not realistically, you can't.

Ok, sorry, had to rant...... We return you to normal programming .............

WinXP is the best of the Windows operating systems. Most problems are hardware related or user related.

Have you tried booting into Safe Mode? If you can do a system restore to an earlier save point.