Hangs on reboot

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by Heavy Mettle Squid, Sep 5, 2009.

  1. Heavy Mettle Squid

    Heavy Mettle Squid Private E-2

    OS = Winows XP SP3
    MoBo= MCI K8N Neo4
    CPU = AMD Athlon

    The past few times, after software updates and subsequent reboots, PC has had trouble rebooting on first try. It would hang at the POST / BIOS splash screen/promt. Now, after last powerdown, it will not boot after many many tries. It always hangs at this same spot.

    Thank you in advance for any insight.
     
    Heavy Mettle Squid, Sep 5, 2009
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  2. Dacads

    Dacads Corporal

    What software updates?
     
    Dacads, Sep 5, 2009
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  3. Heavy Mettle Squid

    Heavy Mettle Squid Private E-2

    Turns out it was due to having a certain USB flash drive plugged into the front USB port. Since I pulled that, the problem has not reoccurred.
     
    Heavy Mettle Squid, Oct 19, 2009
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