I have a windows 2000 machine with all the latest service
packs and security updates etc.. As long as I can
remember, it has always hung on the first boot for the day
and successful on the second, successive try. Recently,
it began hanging on every boot, even multiple times a day
if tried, yet still successful on the second try. Its
annoying. I defragged, scandisk, ran a repair
with "emergency repair disk", changed out the harddrive.
Nothing seems to rid me of this nuisance. Any of your
experts out there have any additional ideas?

It has a 400Mhz AMDK62 processor, but fast enough for what
I do at home. Has a slave harddrive for all the digital
photos. Other than that, nothing fancy.

Thanks in advance and sorry about the long post.

"Jim" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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I have a laptop that hangs on reboots. All reboots it hangs at, but cold
starts it works fine. With 98/ME/NT4 no problems, but with 2K or XP it hangs
always at reboot. I've searched for the answer and have asked many places
like here, but no one knows why.

It's a Celeron 433 clone. At power down it sits at the "It's now safe to
turn off your computer" screen too BTW.

Good luck.

Rach

Interesting, Rach. I hope someone can help us. I forgot
to mention that mine doesn't shutdown. You can
select 'shutdown' or 'restart' and both of them yield
a 'restart'. I wonder if that tyes into the hang on
boot....