What can I do?

Try asking them here. windowsme.general


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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

"Huh" wrote:
|I know this is not the right newsgroup, but I can't find it. My friend has
a
| Sony Viao desktop computer with a Millennium operating system. When
booting
| up, it will go to to the *Me* screen, and it will hang there forever. I
did
| it the other night. it hung at that screen (with the computer activity
light
| flashing, and the harddrive making noise) all night. It was still doing
that
| in the morning 7 hours later. I have tried the *Me restore*, scandisk,
| scanreg, a *Tufflite test* where it checks different components of your
| computer...even tried to start it with the startup disk...nothing works!
| Before too long this desktop is gonna find itself at the bottom of the
lake,
| but before throwing my hands up and throwing this into water, I thought I
| might check here. Can anyone give me some ideas? Thanks!!!
|
|

(thanks, Dave!)

Huh....
It seems likely that your computer is set to boot from the HD before
anything else - but maybe I'm reading your original post wrong.

Please answer the following questions

1) What happens when you try to boot to Safe Mode? (Hold down the CTRL key
during the POST boot phase - you should get to the Startup menu screen)
2) What happens when you boot with a Windows ME boot floppy? (or the startup
disk - is this a floppy, or a CD?)

The more detail, the better.

--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2006, Windows)

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
http://www.crashfixpc.com/millsrpch.htm

http://tinyurl.com/6oztj

Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's
"Dave Patrick" wrote in message
...
Try asking them here. windowsme.general


--

Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

"Huh" wrote:
|I know this is not the right newsgroup, but I can't find it. My friend
has
a
| Sony Viao desktop computer with a Millennium operating system. When
booting
| up, it will go to to the *Me* screen, and it will hang there forever. I
did
| it the other night. it hung at that screen (with the computer activity
light
| flashing, and the harddrive making noise) all night. It was still doing
that
| in the morning 7 hours later. I have tried the *Me restore*, scandisk,
| scanreg, a *Tufflite test* where it checks different components of your
| computer...even tried to start it with the startup disk...nothing works!
| Before too long this desktop is gonna find itself at the bottom of the
lake,
| but before throwing my hands up and throwing this into water, I thought
I
| might check here. Can anyone give me some ideas? Thanks!!!
|
|

It won't get to the start-up screen. It gets to the (Splash?) screen that
says the name of the operating system, and it hangs there. (this is the
screen right after the Sony screen...it is the ME screen, then *normally*
the screen would go black while the booting process is doing its thing
before you starting seeing the icons and all that stuff on the desktop) But,
it never gets to that point. The startup disk is a floppy, and I can do the
system restore, scandisk, all those tests, but when all is said and done,
and I attempt to start the computer, it gets hung up at that same screen. I
can't boot in safe mode or any other mode. It's almost like some little
glitch is holding the hard drive from proceeding past a certain point in the
boot process.

"Noel Paton" wrote in message
...
(thanks, Dave!)

Huh....
It seems likely that your computer is set to boot from the HD before
anything else - but maybe I'm reading your original post wrong.

Please answer the following questions

1) What happens when you try to boot to Safe Mode? (Hold down the CTRL key
during the POST boot phase - you should get to the Startup menu screen)
2) What happens when you boot with a Windows ME boot floppy? (or the
startup disk - is this a floppy, or a CD?)

The more detail, the better.

--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2006, Windows)

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
http://www.crashfixpc.com/millsrpch.htm

http://tinyurl.com/6oztj

Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's
"Dave Patrick" wrote in message
...
Try asking them here. windowsme.general


--

Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

"Huh" wrote:
|I know this is not the right newsgroup, but I can't find it. My friend
has
a
| Sony Viao desktop computer with a Millennium operating system. When
booting
| up, it will go to to the *Me* screen, and it will hang there forever. I
did
| it the other night. it hung at that screen (with the computer activity
light
| flashing, and the harddrive making noise) all night. It was still doing
that
| in the morning 7 hours later. I have tried the *Me restore*, scandisk,
| scanreg, a *Tufflite test* where it checks different components of your
| computer...even tried to start it with the startup disk...nothing
works!
| Before too long this desktop is gonna find itself at the bottom of the
lake,
| but before throwing my hands up and throwing this into water, I thought
I
| might check here. Can anyone give me some ideas? Thanks!!!
|
|

Again, you should post to windowsme.general, this is a Windows XP group.

Dave B wrote:
Again, you should post to windowsme.general, this is a Windows XP group.




If you would look at the headers, he posted to both.

Alias

Which makes it even more odd.

"Alias" wrote in message
...
Dave B wrote:
Again, you should post to windowsme.general, this is a Windows XP group.




If you would look at the headers, he posted to both.

Alias

I answered someone in THIS newsgroup. It would have been *rude* not to have
answered. I have manners.

"Dave B" wrote in message
...
Which makes it even more odd.

"Alias" wrote in message
...
Dave B wrote:
Again, you should post to windowsme.general, this is a Windows XP group.




If you would look at the headers, he posted to both.

Alias

If you say so.


"Huh" wrote in message
news:f5N7g.312$Ky5.55@trndny08...
I answered someone in THIS newsgroup. It would have been *rude* not to have
answered. I have manners.

I do say so.

"Dave B" wrote in message
...
If you say so.


"Huh" wrote in message
news:f5N7g.312$Ky5.55@trndny08...
I answered someone in THIS newsgroup. It would have been *rude* not to
have answered. I have manners.