Dear lazyweb..

[theducks]

So our Media PC running Windows XP is a little fruity. It will cold boot, after the power has been unplugged, but if it's a restart, the thing "hangs" at the XP logo screen, only it doesn't, the bar keeps going ultra slowly. If left for a day, it still doesn't boot.

Also, during the go-slow boot, there are red and green lines in the progress bar. New mobo (Asus M3A), processor, ram, but an old PCI-E 6600GT video card.

Comments

[shigawire.livejournal.com]

Might be XP leaving PnP devices in a state that either the BIOS or XP itself doesn't expect/doesn't deal with well on boot; That'll only show up on a warm-boot (bringing the ~RESET pin low is only going to reset the CPU and enter the BIOS)

Check to see if the BIOS has a setting as to if the OS is PnP aware. It's a bit of a long shot. :-)