What is this?

[rajunpl]

I just installed XP pro in my machine. When I restart only XP pro logo comes and then screen goes black. No welcome menu.

Istart by safe mode option, then I can see systwm tray with safe mode written on the four corner of the screen. That's it. I can click start menu and everything comes but no background or wallpaper

What is this?

[Tiger Shark]

Is your video card compatible with WinXP? Is it on the Hardware Compatibility List, (HCL)? Do you have WinXP compatible drivers loaded or did you rely on your old ones?

[rajunpl]

Well, there was a home edition b4. And it was fine, I could atleast see the welcome screen and do all the stuff. No change in hardware

[Tiger Shark]

Then I'd consider formatting and starting again, it sounds like the load may be corrupt.

[rajunpl]

Did you mean ...problem on XP CD?

[SirDice]

Have you tried reinstalling the display driver?

You may need to remove the old one first (you can do that in safe mode).

[rajunpl]

Now i formatted HD again, and I installed win2k, while installin, i got an error saying callcont.dl_ file cannot be found, however i skip it and install, all good

still windows hang with starting up win2k logo

I went to safemode and got that fille from cd , how can I install that?

[Tiger Shark]

open a command prompt and type

expand /?

That will give you the appropriate syntax.

you will end up typing something like this:-

expand c:\temp\callcont.dl_ c:\windows\system32\callcont.dll <ENTER>

[SirDice]

Use extract to uncompress the .dl_ to .dll and place the file in the correct location.

Ah. Tiger beat me to it. And it's indeed expand, extract is for win9x cab files.

[rajunpl]

Is that command is extracting from cdrom?

Thanks you so much tigershark.......You really are Tiger