Will Not Boot

Hi, I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving.

I have WinMe Compaq PC. It boots to where icons would be but none appear and
the hour glass never goes away. I've removed all expansion cards and
disconnected the floppy drive, the CD-ROM, etc. and no change. It will not
boot in Safe Mode without stopping at the same place. I've tried step-by-step
config without load registry, loading win drivers and no change.

Does anyone have a clue as to what I can do to try to get it to boot or what
I should do at this point?

Thanks in advance.

KP

Boot with a WinME EBD (which if you don't have one/didn't make one, you can
download one from www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm - choose the OEM version).
Once at the A:\ prompt type

c:\windows\scanreg /fix

remember the space between the g and /. Hopefully that'll work. But if not,
try

c:\windows\scanreg /restore

and choose the most recent date on which the computer ran well. If that
doesn't work, try changing the

Shell=Explorer.exe

line in C:\Windows\System.ini, to

Shell=Msconfig.exe

from DOS, using the command

Edit C:\Windows\System.ini

then rebooting. The computer should load MSConfig, from which you should be
able to run System Restore - again to the most recent date on which Windows
ran correctly. Alternatively you can get System Restore itself to load
instead of MSConfig, by changing the System.ini

Shell=Explorer.exe

line to

Shell=C:\Windows\System\Restore\RSTRUI.EXE

Good luck.


Shane


"KenP" wrote in message
...
Hi, I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving.

I have WinMe Compaq PC. It boots to where icons would be but none appear
and
the hour glass never goes away. I've removed all expansion cards and
disconnected the floppy drive, the CD-ROM, etc. and no change. It will not
boot in Safe Mode without stopping at the same place. I've tried
step-by-step
config without load registry, loading win drivers and no change.

Does anyone have a clue as to what I can do to try to get it to boot or
what
I should do at this point?

Thanks in advance.

KP

"KenP" wrote:

Hi, I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving.

I have WinMe Compaq PC. It boots to where icons would be but none appear and
the hour glass never goes away. I've removed all expansion cards and
disconnected the floppy drive, the CD-ROM, etc. and no change. It will not
boot in Safe Mode without stopping at the same place. I've tried step-by-step
config without load registry, loading win drivers and no change.

Does anyone have a clue as to what I can do to try to get it to boot or what
I should do at this point?

Thanks in advance.

KP

Shane has given you some pretty good suggestions.

Another approach you might try is to create a bootlog.

Bring up the Startup Menu, just as you do for Safe Mode, and choose
the "Logged - Bootlog.txt" option.

After it has "hung up" reboot the computer using a startup diskette.
Copy the file c:\bootlog.txt to a diskette.
On a functioning computer download the Bootlog Analyzer from
http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/terrace/pk29/ and run it to anlyze
the bootlog for errors. You could also open the bootlog file using
Notepad and look at the contents. The last dozen lines or so should
tell you exactly where in the startup process the hangup is occurring
and that could help identify the actual cause.

Good luck

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP (1997 - 2006)
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

Try the restoration Cd that came with it.

--
Jonny
"KenP" wrote in message
...
Hi, I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving.

I have WinMe Compaq PC. It boots to where icons would be but none appear
and
the hour glass never goes away. I've removed all expansion cards and
disconnected the floppy drive, the CD-ROM, etc. and no change. It will not
boot in Safe Mode without stopping at the same place. I've tried
step-by-step
config without load registry, loading win drivers and no change.

Does anyone have a clue as to what I can do to try to get it to boot or
what
I should do at this point?

Thanks in advance.

KP