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Computer Q&A Board / Windows / winxp pro logon at startup
Posted by: Kalvin, October 12th, 2006, 10:00am
Lenova (IBM) T-30 running WinXP PRO I bought used and had no problems for about 6 months now is freezing at the logon screen at startup as soon as I hit any key on the keyboard. Noticed a few days ago that AFTER Windows loaded another logon screen popped up and accepted my password and logon info just fine. Now, though, I cannot get passed the startup logon screen. When I boot to safe mode or try to boot through the Windows XP cd, the system says my password is invalid.
Posted by: dlwolff0, October 14th, 2006, 1:17am; Reply: 1
Check this page, it sounds like you need to reset your password.
The page gives links and information to help you make a bootable CD to use to blank the current unknown password on the system. Once you get back into Windows, you can set a new password.
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html
Posted by: pdr, October 15th, 2006, 3:26pm; Reply: 2
Thanks dlwolfo for that link and info.
I wonder if Kalvin solved his problem. :-/
Peter
Posted by: Kalvin, October 19th, 2006, 12:13am; Reply: 3
hey, thanks, for the suggestion. I ended up ordering a "password reset" CD on ebay which did not solve the problem. My system was not responding to the keyboard as it turned out. I gave up, reformatted the hard drive and did a clean install of Win XP pro. Yikes. Downloaded and paid for the Win XP recovery CD program from Ray and hope I don't have to go through all that again. System is up and running just fine after the clean install. Thanks again.
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