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The problem turned out to be that there was a plastic adapter over the pins on the old hard drive that I needed to remove and install on the new drive. Once I did that all is working fine.
Thanks.

Update: I received and installed the new hard drive. The boot problem has been corrected, except now the problem is that the new drive is not recognized. I went into to the BIOS, there is no setting...

Actually my cd rom is first in my boot order. That's my concern, I think that with the cdrom first in the boot order the computer should boot from the cd with a bad hard drive, or even with no hard...

UPDATE:I tried to boot up today from the boot menu and got a warning message about an imminent hard drive failure, backup all data immediately, etc. So it looks like I need a new hard drive, but I...

Yes, clock time is correct.

No, it only goes to the blank screen, none of the usual F8 options. Strange though that when I get to the boot menu and select the hard drive it will boot just fine.

Sorry PhotoLady,
should've mentioned that I already tried booting to Safe Mode to no avail. It does the same thing, just goes to a blank screen.

This is a Compaq Presario R3000 laptop, Intel P4 2.8 G, 384 M RAM running XP Home. On start up, I get the Compaq BIOS screen, then just a blank screen after that. No error messages, no nothing. On...

This is a new Dell running Windows Vista Home, 1Gig RAM. On many websites such as:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/05/070514-galapagos-video.html
The video won't play, it's just a...

Finally got my hands on an OEM XP Pro cd. Installation went like a charm. Didn't even have to call MS. Activation went through online.
Thanks to all of you for your help.

Yes, the product ID from the VLK cd that I have is 55274270. I tried changing it to 55274OEM, as suggested by the link I posted above, but as I mentioned above that didn't work.

I guess it's worth a try but I have a feeling that they won't help me because I don't have the original oem cd that the os was initially installed from.
Thanks for the help.

Welshjim:
I've got the label on the case with the 25 digit license key. The hard drive has been formatted so I don't have the product id from the old installation, but I've modified the product id...

rythymace:
When I've done similar upgrades in the past, the installation would accept my license key, but the online activation would fail and I would have to call MS to get activated. The...

Hello:
I installed a new motherboard in an old home built computer, and have reformatted and am attempting to reinstall XP PRo. I have a legit OEM COA sticker on the case. My XP PRo cd is...

Thanks SpywareDr.
Someone had apparently used Windows Task Scheduler to Works at Startup.
HiJackthis identified it.

On a Dell Dimension running XP Pro,SP2, on startup an MS Works database opens. I have checked the Startup folder and msconfig and looked in MS Works for any settings like "run at startup" but haven't...

I have a small home office with 3 comupters all running xp Pro w/SP2. Two Dells and and HP Pavilion. Internet via Verizon DSL. On the HP, aftere a day or two I will lose the internet connection....

The one thing I hadn't done was to remove the old profile, I'll give it a shot and let you know.
thanks.

I have a Dell Dimension running XP Pro with a D-Link wireless card that has recently been moved to a new office. In the old office it connected with no problem to the wireless network that was...

I found over 4000 files in his c:\documents and settings\username\desktop folder. There were over a hundred copies each of every word and excel document from his My Documents folder. I have not idea...

I have a business associate running XP SP2 on a Dell Dimension. He said he was just moving some files around and suddenly his desktop is full of shortcuts, literally hundreds of copies of documents....

Steve:
That was my thinking also but I found that the problem is due to AVG antivirus free edition. Uninstalling the application corrects the problem. I'll post to their forum to see if anyone there...

Steve:
I should've added to my initial post that this is a fairly recent phenomenon, so it is definitely not normal. And I've already checked for other versions of winlogon, and none exist.
Thanks...

This is a Dell Optiplex running Windows 2000. On startup, winlogon.exe consumes 30 to 90 % of cpu resources for a minute or so, then returns to normal (0%). I've verified that the system is clean of...