Login Hangs at "Loading Your Personal Settings"

[JPeters]

Hey everyone,

I'm runnin Win2k Pro. I'm not loging into a server, I use it for my home pc. There are computers connected to it via a router, but thats just my local area network to share my cable modem connection.

So I logoff Windows 2000 last night to go to bed, everything was running fine. I get up this morning to do a little bit of work on my computer, turn it on, and I cannot login! Whether I login as administrator or any other user, it just hangs at "Loading your personal settings...".
Has anyone experienced this before? It's driving me nuts, and I really really really really really don't want to do a re-install of win2k... THere must be a solution to this head-ache..

Also, In both types of safe modes (command prompt and normal safe mode) it does this exact same thing. It just sits there and never finishes loading.


Any takers?

-Josh ------------------
-JPeters
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[Wirdo]

I have had it hang b4, but I have no idea why. Usually though if I hit Ctr-Alt-Del it will get past it and load. But, as I said I have no idea why.

 

[dentarthurdent]

I found this article:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=249321

Does it have anything to do with your situation ?

Will.

 

[bytemarc]

I just had this happen to me.
I was trying to load a modem driver, ansd deleted the old one. During reboot, it hung.
I cold booted, and hit (F8?) for advanced boot options.
Starting in safe mode I was able to reload the modem driver. It worked fined after that!
A few tries (of installing a modem driver)later, it did not work, but told me my graphics driver was bad.
I reinstalled the graphics driver, and voila.

 

[InfrArch]

Use f8 and the choose Last Known Good Configuration! Must work!


Victor K
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[JPeters]

Guys,
Thanks for the replies... However, none of these have worked. I'm afraid that I might have to just take out the hard drive, hook it up to another computer... back everything up... and do a fresh install of Win2k Pro.

Thanks for the time. If anyone else has any clues, please feel free to respond, as to the fact that I won't have time to do this reformat until the weekend.

-Josh ------------------
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[sholik]

Have you tried reseating the memory or maybe the video card. Just a thought.

 

[morpheu5]

HAve had this problem a few times and it it has always bee the graphics card, known problem on Dell PC's that we work with and certain chipset - if it worked the previous evening I think your best bet would be to check the card seating as previous post.

 

[JPeters]

Allright, I'll give that a try. Thanks guys! I'll let you know how it works out.

-Josh ------------------
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