Interesting this morning: Intel motherboard screen, then the XP asking 
if I want to start normally from previous  blank screen (enter for 
normal), then XP opening screen (with there activity crawl center 
screen), and then the blank screen. No response from CTL-ALT-DEL. Hit 
reset, got the want to start normally, getting the "starting windows" 
and XP came up.

If it's PSU, or motherboard, then would I not get the Intel opening 
screen and just hang with nothing? Once windows is up, the machine is 
normal for the rest of the day. Could be an intermittent anywhere in 
hardware with windows trying to load hardware ID to load drivers and 
getting stuck I'm thinking is another possibility and would have to 
strip boards out to isoloate.  ~:

Downloaded the Koppix yesterday (took hours on my DSL), will try burning 
CD and going that route. Also have dug out the old PSU and might get to 
installing that also (one at a time). Will keep posted.

Herbert Graf wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 08:47 -0400, Carl Denk wrote:
>   
>> I have an Intel D845WN motherboard with Pentium 4, and a Western Digital 
>> WD800BB-75DKA0 80GB hardrive master running XP PRO SP2. On power up, I 
>> frequently get the Intel opening screen, and the nothing but a blank 
>> (dark grey raster scan) screen. Most of the time pushing the reset 
>> button results in a normal boot into windows. The motherboard setup 
>> harddrive pre-delay was a low number, but now is set to around 15 
>> seconds which seemed to help. Does this sound like a harddrive problem 
>> with reading  the boot sector, and time to buy a new drive? Is there a 
>> boot log somewhere?
>>     
>
> Could be a hard drive issue, I have seen them fail like this.
>
> That said, it sounds more like a power supply issue to me. Try swapping
> the power supply and see if the problem disappears. TTYL
>
>   
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