Hi,

Faulty hardware, possibly a hairline fracture in the solder someplace. Once
the system has run a bit and it's heated up (expanding the metal in the
process), the component acts normally.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"jjwm27" <jjwm27@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> hello, every time i turn my computor on from a powered off state it gets
> to
> the desktop and then freezes, i mean every single time, so i do a hard
> shut
> down and select "start windows normaly" and everything is fine, i can
> restart
> over and over and all is good, it just does it from a cold boot. any ideas
> what might be causing it?
> any help would be great because this is killing me. thanks.