Posted by member 90067 on 2003-12-10 06:56:41 link
Hi mungo,
something similar has happened to me a couple of times, always after cold reboots / startups. In my case, I was able to pinpoint the culprit: my P4PE mainboard in conjunction with the PSU (Enermax) apparently takes a LONG time for enumerating the hardware properly at cold start — sometimes, it takes 30s just to pass POST —, and some features such as USB still aren't always recognised properly even after booting into WinXP. Result: WinXP thinks there's a graphics tablet, a mouse, a web cam, and a scanner, I start up Photoshop -> the shell (e.g. Litestep) goes into wild throes. Prior to Litestep, explorer just shut down and DrWatson came visiting. Reboot, everything works perfectly, no matter how often I log in or out, or reboot.
I found the issue could be reduced considerably with adding a bootup menu and a 10s delay before automatically booting WinXP.
Hope this helps,
-Sascha.rb
something similar has happened to me a couple of times, always after cold reboots / startups. In my case, I was able to pinpoint the culprit: my P4PE mainboard in conjunction with the PSU (Enermax) apparently takes a LONG time for enumerating the hardware properly at cold start — sometimes, it takes 30s just to pass POST —, and some features such as USB still aren't always recognised properly even after booting into WinXP. Result: WinXP thinks there's a graphics tablet, a mouse, a web cam, and a scanner, I start up Photoshop -> the shell (e.g. Litestep) goes into wild throes. Prior to Litestep, explorer just shut down and DrWatson came visiting. Reboot, everything works perfectly, no matter how often I log in or out, or reboot.
I found the issue could be reduced considerably with adding a bootup menu and a 10s delay before automatically booting WinXP.
Hope this helps,
-Sascha.rb