Bootcamped iMac's Freeze on Boot

[wkilner]

Hi all.

 

I have a very random / intermittent problem with a room full of iMac's

 

The machines are set to boot into XP first and every now and then a bunch of them will just freeze at the XP loading screen - The Black Screen with the progress bar, the bar freezes and the only way to recover is pulling the power.

 

The odd thing is, booting the machine again after pulling the power, the machine will start fine and continue to start fine.

 

This happened alot more before I rolled out latest bootcamp 3.0 but the problem still exists.

 

Any one any ideas?

 

Cheers all

 

W

[AntonioRocco]

Hi

 

Does the problem happen if you disconnect the network cable first?

 

Antonio Rocco (ACSA)

[wkilner]

I am unable to try that as the fault is very intermittent. a room of 31 and maybe 5 may do it every 3days or so!!!