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Seeing boot messages in Windows XP

5 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/seeing-boot-messages-in-windows-xp.22635/

praka123
praka123 Original post #1
Jan 24, 2006 at 9:42 AM
Hello,
How do we able to watch windows XP's boot messages either by stopping windows splash screen..ANY ideas.. :)
Vishal Gupta
Vishal Gupta #2
Jan 24, 2006 at 3:56 PM
open msconfig and goto BOOT.INI tab and select XP entry and enable /NOGUIBOOT OPTION...
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sakumar79 #3
Jan 24, 2006 at 4:10 PM
^^ - /noguiboot will remove the splashscreen (I use it), but I dont see any boot messages coming up... What messages are you expecting? If you want the initial BIOS messages, you should check the bios for option to disable the logo... In Safe mode, WinXP will list the drivers being loaded... But in regular mode, I dont think WinXP gives any messages...

Arun
Vishal Gupta
Vishal Gupta #4
Jan 24, 2006 at 4:17 PM
I forgot to mention!

Also enable /SOS option, then u'll be able to see the messages...
praka123
praka123 #5
Jan 24, 2006 at 10:59 PM
Yes.I tried enabling your said options and bootlisting some .sys files..cant we expect XP to show which drivers are the OS Loading for startup,which hardware are detetced during boot up.Thank You.