From: Sh@dow.br
On Thu, 30 Oct 2014 01:14:46 +0100, Bjørn Sørheim
wrote:
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>I got a booting problem on my Acer Xp-machine that I don't understand,
>and I have had for over half a year. Which has led me to abandon the
>machine for most of the time, since it is almost impossible to get
>through.
>
>It may have something to to with the boot disk being almost full? It
>is a 200 Gb disk, and when the problem started it had maybe less than
>2Gb free, even 1Gb. The exact number, I'm not shure of. Currently I
>had about 10 Gb space when I last booted, and have been able to remove
>3 more since then.
>
>I'm keeping the machine on for a week at a time, thus avoiding the
>booting process, cause it's a real pain trying to boot. Once it's up
>and running there is no problems at all it seems, rock steady. So why
>is it so hard to boot?
>
>What happens when I try to boot is this:
>-Going through BIOS ok,
>-Windows start up image showing, loging in,
>-Windows final background with icons coming up partly - but
>having come partly through the number of icons showing up one after
>the other slowly, about 10-20 seconds or earlier into this process, it
>crashes then tries to reboot!
>
>The system then gets into the blue screen and wants to check the file
>system for consequence. It does not seem to have any bad effect to
>skip this process by my choice (as it takes a whole 10 minutes), but I
>do it once in a while to 'clean up' the disk.
>I have to do this partly booting cycle up to 20-30 times before the
>system is able to boot properly. Sometimes I just give up and abandon
>it. I have gotten into the habit of being very quick to log in as I
>have possibly found a connection of being fast in this process and a
>successful boot. With the progressing number of boot tries, there
>seems to be a slowly (but slightly erratic) increasing number of
>seconds into the process of icons appearing. Once you get pst 30-40
>seconds into the icons, a successful booting will ensue. But as
>mentioned, this may take 20-30 tries or more!
>
>An added problem is that I have a second disk attached, and going
>through this constant rebooting, I'm fairly nervous this whole thing
>may wreck that disk. Another reason to avoid it all.
>I have removed many icons, putting them into folders, but the problem
>persists. It is possible this has diminished the problem, but not
>shure about that..
>I have also removed most of the elements of the automatic start up
>programs in the Boot-folder.
>
>Any suggestions to what is going on here and a remedy for it?
>
I would assume you have done a malware scan, and it came up
OK. And that previous suggestions of checking the HD with
CrystalDiskInfo came up OK.
Check the system logs. Type
eventvwr
into the "run" box. Look for red or yellow warnings. Post here
if you don't know what they mean.
How much RAM do you have on the machine? Is the swap file
static or dynamic ?
Do you have a DVD burner ? If so, backup the data you rarely
use (or transfer it to a USB and burn to a DVD on another machine),
uninstall programs you don't use, and maybe run something like
BleachBit for a good cleanup (warning - make sure you do a preview
first - don't let it remove anything important. I've seen people keep
their documents in the /temp folder).
After that, use jkdefrag (simpler than mydefrag, same author)
to give the HD a good defrag.
[]'s
http://bleachbit.sourceforge.net/
http://www.kessels.com/JkDefrag/
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