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Ken's system, cont.
Upon returning I saw the slackware init/boot screen was hanging at rc.hotplug. It actually wasn't really hanging, it was totally frozen. I really hadn'ta clue what went wrong so I tried a reboot and the same thing happened except it was hanging and not frozen.. WTF? I rebooted with the default slackware kernel

Crashed system!
Steve Bailey wrote: Have a vintage P5-120 desktop Gateway, had some odd occurances, particularly a boot problem. No boot screen, just a series of 3 x 1-1/2 second Namely a slow blinking cursor in upper left corner of black screen, then Desktop comes up, but with frozen mouse pointer, then a short black screen,

win2k, Direct CD 3.0 how to install?
... become frozen. i believe the problem is the pcmcia kernal checking the irq of the keyboard and internal mouse [irq 12, if i found it right], seeing nothing there and therefore the computer doesn't recognize either, as after the pcmcia kernel runs, you go to login and i can't login, nor get a text boot screen.

Windows can't habdle large images
I can't get my computer to boot up in safe mode. I have tried hitting the F8 key and also tried hitting the Ctrl key as soon as I turn my computer on. All that happens is that my computer comes up to its normal boot screen with the cursor frozen and I have to manually shut the computer off.

Wireless 2011 PC-card causes Sony Vaio to freeze
... software that modifies standard system components, eg to give a different boot screen, or even custom theme, uninstall it before installing either service pack. For example, if one instance of IE is frozen whilst attempting to connect to www.google.com, task manager will show TWO identical application tasks

Ubuntu on a Mac
Rebooted and got the 5.0 boot screen and then it gave me my new desktop, no icons, and my cursor was frozen. Funny thing I could evoke the menu changer that is new for Be. Every application was still in the menu, including all the ones I had downloaded and installed. But that was it. Nothing would invoke.

Zip Rescue Freezes
... then get a confirmation box warning that you are forcing the configuration - but has the machine has frozen and you have no alternative but to reboot, the first freeze the machine will not boot up with the card inserted - it stalls on the first Windows 2000 boot screen with the progress bar at about 75%.

ASUS AGP Hell... HELLp!!!!!!! Please!!!!
If the JDos is there you will know by the boot screen with the J-dos header, in addition to the regular bytes free message. There are also the other possibilities that others have mentioned. Phil Porth (aka Phone Man) From the land of the frozen North, Calgary Alberta Canada Home of the Calgary Stampede and Calgary

SP5 / FP2kSE Install -- Frozen Boot Screen
CMPI cmp...@hotmail.com comp sys oric Hi, I've just got an Atmos and when i start it i just see a cursor on a frozen screen. The cursor is at the right bottom of the screen. To describe a little bit more : 1) When i power on the atmos, i've the classical boot screen with the black screen and some white chars on it.

AX59Pro & ACPI Progress (long)
Alternately, is there some way to boot to a "safe mode" or a prompt in Be, so I could just re-install? Thanks... -- E Safe mode always used to be activated by pressing the space bar at the boot screen. I can't remember if this changed in 4.5, but I don't think it did. -Graham.

Abit-BH6: long beeps after BIOS setup
My problem: Each successive boot into Windows XP gets longer and longer to load the OS until I get frozen at the boot screen with the bar moving across with the Windows logo on. At this point, I hit the reset button and retry the operation choosing "Load last known configuration that worked", and this doesn't work

The King's Toaster
Choosing to boot in safe mode goes to a prompt to crete a Basic Rescue Disk. If you choose yes, it asks to remove floppy and re-boot. If you choose no, you're returned to the boot screen and remain frozen. Hi Tom, Try the following: 1. Change the config.sys on the rescue floppy so that the DEVICEHIGH=ASPIPPM1.

My oric don' t boot
A colored square in the upper left corner of the screen starts to flash, but after a while it stops loading. The screen is frozen. Punching keys of clicking mouse buttons doesn't help, it seems crashed or something. After that I turned of the computer, and turned it on again. This time I inserted the boot disk I

********Setup Does Not Recognize Processor***********
He said, "Toasters don't just turn bread into toast, they are also used to warm frozen waffles. What you see before you is really a breakfast food cooker. When the breakfast cooker is plugged in, users should see a cowboy boot on the screen. Users should click on it and the message 'Booting UNIX v.

BootVis and System Issue
I booted from a CD, so the fact that it took a while to boot is no shock. The boot screen, though, was massively ugly. Could be based on my having a Eventually I would get the dialog telling me it had frozen. Disappointing. * Hmmm, had not tested if I was on the network yet, so I opened the terminal and pinged.

Pro Edition
Boot to the boot menu by holding down either the ctrl or F8 key after the ram count occurs on the boot screen. Select Command Prompt Only and at the C: prompt, I have spent the last several hours checking and unchecking boxes in msconfig and have had the same result after restarting in Normal mode, a frozen

Windows 2000 freeze, large pixels on mouse pointer & icons
If the setting is on lower MHz, then I can get out from BIOS setup menu without long beeps, and enter the boot screen. But it fail the boot screen - saying that the processor setting is not correct - so I have to go back to the BIOS setup menu to fix it (and frozen on long beeps afterwards).

noticeboard
Now the mouse is frozen again. Ah, Ctrl-Alt-Del finally responded, now the restart sequence is engaged. It's been going for a couple minutes now, slowly ending apps one at a time. Finally, the boot screen. Pretty shitty. Same here. The sequence is almost exactly the same. I noticed that a precursor to the reboot is

Windows can't habdle large images
Either the screen border or the whole screen goes solid red and everything is frozen. Brutal Football: Game play starts but all the player sprites seem to be invisible! As far as the games go, I've already tried all the boot up configuration options with the 1200 boot screen and Zappo CD boot screen that I can.

Not so temporary 'Total Freeze'
After installing SP5 and FP2k server extensions on an NT4 box, it never completes the boot cycle. The box is now locked up at the login banner with the interlaced logo. The mouse moves, but it is catatonic and will not respond to keystrokes or mouse clicks. Even ctrl/alt/del does not work.