Workstation hangs on blue startup screen

[FunGuy]

I have a workstation that has mysteriously started to hang on the blue startup screen.  It just sits there for hours on end.  Have tried everything from going to VGA mode, trying a rescue disk, combos of the two.  Any other ideas?  It had been working fine for almost a year now.

 

[theripper]

Have you added any new hardware lately?

 

[FunGuy]

No, there have been no changes -- hardware or softwarewise.

 

[voland]

Are you attached to any LAN?<br><br>Regards!

 

[FunGuy]

Yeah, we're on a NetWare LAN with 3.11 and Small Business 4.2 servers.&nbsp;&nbsp;But that does remind me of something.&nbsp;&nbsp;We had just installed NetWare's client 4.7 for WinNT when this happened.&nbsp;&nbsp;So there was a change in software.&nbsp;&nbsp;Someone has theorized that there was not enough memory on the local drive for the new install and that caused our problem.&nbsp;&nbsp;Other workstations where we installed the 4.7 version have been OK.

 

[voland]

Try powering system up w/out network connection (disconnect cable from network card) - same problem? As I understand the workstation hangs on blue screen (when the device drivers are being loaded), NOT on the login screen when it might be blamed on the NetWare client...<br><br>Regards!

 

[FunGuy]

Yeah, disconnecting from the LAN did not help.&nbsp;&nbsp;And it does hang on the blue screen -- it does not get to the login screen.

 

[Zelandakh]

Can you start the workstation in VGA mode? If so (or boot from a DOS boot disk if not and you have a FAT partition), edit boot.ini and add the /sos to the workstation option. This will show each driver being loaded which should help.

 

[FunGuy]

It does the same thing in VGA mode.&nbsp;&nbsp;I can boot it with a DOS boot disk and from what I can tell, everything looks normal.&nbsp;&nbsp;With /sos in boot.ini, I can see the following drivers loaded:<br><br>ntoskrnl.exe<br>hal.dll<br>config/system<br>c_1252.nls<br>c_437.nls<br>l_intl.nls<br>FONTS\vgaoem.fon<br>drivers\PIIXIDE.SYS<br>..\SCSIPORT.SYS<br>..\DISK.SYS<br>..\CLASS2.SYS<br>..\Fastfat.sys<br>..\intlfxsr.sys<br><br>Then it goes to the blue startup screen and hangs.<br>