Seeing boot messages in Windows XP

[praka123]

Hello,
How do we able to watch windows XP's boot messages either by stopping windows splash screen..ANY ideas..

 

[Vishal Gupta]

open msconfig and goto BOOT.INI tab and select XP entry and enable /NOGUIBOOT OPTION...

 

[sakumar79]

^^ - /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]

I forgot to mention!

Also enable /SOS option, then u'll be able to see the messages...

 

[praka123]

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.