I have a Toshiba Satellite A25-S207 laptop that will boot properly about half of the time. It runs XP Home. 512 MB ram.
It manifests the stall in two ways.
1. It will stall at the first Microsoft XP window where the blue bands are supposed to cycle by but fail to do so.
OR
2. It makes it past the Microsoft XP window, then cycles to the next screen that turns black/dark blue to a screen that has no active pixels (completely black), then back to the black/dark blue screen where the pointer is supposed to start up but stalls.
Another oddity is a very slow refresh rate of any active window. The icons in a window may disappear upto for 30 to 40 seconds.
The computer was recently rebuilt using the Toshiba Restore disk and updated using a genuine Windows SP2 disk. I ran SpyBot S&D 1.4 to imunize it and then did a full update on my Norton's Antivirus and did a full scan. Norton's always gives me the OK that all programs are running correctly.
The hard drive does not make any weird noises, but I am beginning to think that this may not be a software problem but a failing hard drive instead. I have to backup daily to another hard drive.
What do you all think? Is is something that Norton's can't see, or is my hard drive ready to go belly up?
Dan
It manifests the stall in two ways.
1. It will stall at the first Microsoft XP window where the blue bands are supposed to cycle by but fail to do so.
OR
2. It makes it past the Microsoft XP window, then cycles to the next screen that turns black/dark blue to a screen that has no active pixels (completely black), then back to the black/dark blue screen where the pointer is supposed to start up but stalls.
Another oddity is a very slow refresh rate of any active window. The icons in a window may disappear upto for 30 to 40 seconds.
The computer was recently rebuilt using the Toshiba Restore disk and updated using a genuine Windows SP2 disk. I ran SpyBot S&D 1.4 to imunize it and then did a full update on my Norton's Antivirus and did a full scan. Norton's always gives me the OK that all programs are running correctly.
The hard drive does not make any weird noises, but I am beginning to think that this may not be a software problem but a failing hard drive instead. I have to backup daily to another hard drive.
What do you all think? Is is something that Norton's can't see, or is my hard drive ready to go belly up?
Dan