<html><head><style>body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px}</style></head><body style="word-wrap:break-word"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto"><br></div> <br> <div id="bloop_sign_1496027789345677824" class="bloop_sign"></div> <br><p class="airmail_on">On May 28, 2017 at 09:37:57, Stephen P. Molnar (<a href="mailto:s.molnar@sbcglobal.net">s.molnar@sbcglobal.net</a>) wrote:</p>...<br><div><blockquote type="cite" class="clean_bq" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span><div><div></div><div>Up to a point, that is. I got the first part of the login, that is the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>computer spooling up and checking the RAM (which passed the test) and I<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>got the XP selection window where I selected the normal startup, and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>then a white strip across the bottom of the monitor screen and . . .<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>nothing.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>Obviously, even from my limited hardware experience, I suspect there is<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>a problem with the OS. I still have the installation disk, but I was<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>thinking of upgrading the OS to Windows 7 (I'm writing on my production<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>tower which is running Debian v-8.8).<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>I'd appreciate some comments as to what I might try to get the older<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>computer running again.</div></div></span></blockquote></div><p>Can you boot successfully in safe mode? If so, then you might (might) have a resolvable driver issue or startup application issue. You should be able to use 'msconfig' to turn off applications that are launching on boot. One of them may be the source of your trouble. Easiest approach is to disable them all, and see if you can boot normally. If that works, enable them one at a time - rebooting after each one. Eventually you find the culprit.</p><p>Otherwise, you're probably going to need to format and reinstall. Windows, at least older versions, has a tendency to corrupt itself over time, and there's not much use fighting the OS, or trying to fix it after a certain point. You'll just end up beating your head on the wall and accomplish nothing of value.</p><p><br></p></body></html>