Stalling at startup when loading U32Ico.fio - fixed (for me)

richardnau · Post by **richardnau** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 5:27 am

Hi,

I had the (apparently quite common) problem that PI would fail to start, stalling when loading U32Ico.fio.

I pored over many threads and found little joy. Deleting temp files and clearing temp folders didn't do a thing.

One user aired a suspicion that the problem may be related to having PI installed on a drive other than C:.

Through my own error, my PC had (for a couple of weeks after a major upgrade) no C: at all. Long story, don't ask. Bottom line, WinXP was installed on E:, and so were the apps. This caused a few annoyances at install times when things would try to install to C: (or at least to unpack files into temp directories on C:), but I mostly managed to work with it.

In the end, as a last resort, I thought I would bite the bullet and re-install the whole shebang on C: - a clean Windows install with fresh installs of all the apps.

Lo and behold, PI installed just fine and now works as designed. I used exactly the same install files, followed exactly the same process.

Sorry, I can't explain WHY this has worked for me. Maybe there's something hardcoded to C: deep within the bowels of PI, and maybe this caused my problem. Maybe it's just coincidence. But I thought that I should at least report that...

... IF you have problems with PI stalling when trying to load U32Ico.fio at startup, and...

... IF you have PI installed on other than C: (you may or may not even have a C:)...

... THEN re-installing PI on C: (and/or rebuilding your system so that you actually have a C:) MAY solve your problem.

It seems to have worked for me.

Richard.

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 3:35 am

Well, I have my system and app's installed on D:\ drive. MF 4 DC, PI 11 and PI 12 work well on this.

richardnau · Post by **richardnau** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 5:05 am

Like I said, maybe it's just a coincidence. Someone speculated in this direction in an earlier thread, and I'm just reporting what I found.

Best,

Richard.

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 5:21 am

Was it this post or another?
http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic. ... 4789#84789

richardnau · Post by **richardnau** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 11:18 pm

Steve,

No - not your post.

There are a couple of hints at the bottom of this thread:
http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic. ... u32ico+fio

But I'm sure it was something else that sent me in this (last ditch) direction. It might have been this one:
http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic. ... u32ico+fio

To be honest, I went down so many blind alleys, I'm not certain which post gave me the biggest hint. And, as I said in response to Heinz above, I can't be CERTAIN that re-installing to C: was the fix. Could be coincidence - many things change with a fresh Windows install...

Richard.