Computer woes
Tuesday, 9 January 2007 06:44![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pneFor some reason, my computer hangs on the very first screen for a long time—where it just says "Pentium 4 with HyperThreading" or whatever, before it even shows the "starting Windows" screen.
That Pentium screen used to flash by in about half a second; now it seems to be there for about a minute.
I'm not sure what I could have changed in the past two weeks or so (it was fine until then), especially since I presume it would have to be something in hardware, rather than messing up Windows config or something.
Maybe some component is dying? RAM is taking a while to settle down to a stable state? The computer is having trouble contacting the hard disk?
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Date: Sunday, 14 January 2007 13:54 (UTC)Well, I see a processor logo immediately after booting.
press [ESC] to remove it and check if you see the key being reported.
Tried that; no (visible) response. Nor for [DEL], [CTRL], [F1], or [F2].
I didn't remember about [F6] or [F8]; might have to try those next time I boot.