This is a weird one. I was running a NVidia 220GT PCIe video card on the PC listed in my system specs. I just swapped that for a ZOTAC NVidia GT 640 PCIe card. Now on boot up I don't see my BIOS splash screen. It's just a blank black screen with one beep and then the Windows 7 loading screen. I can...
My laptop takes 3min and 20 seconds to boot! its stuck in the welcome screen for 2min+ with the harddrive not doing anything.
I think its searching for network drivers or something... Help
I have attached MSINFO32.nfo file. Any boot logging programs I can run?
These recent days i have discovered a problem. When I turn on for the first time the PC in a day, about 5min or so after the boot up a black screen appears on the monitor, and if I have any kind of sound playing it jams. the strange thing is after i press the reset button, the PC works fine even...
I was trying to reproduce the nice behavior I had on my old Sony laptop (running XP, but that's not the point). Namely, the boot-up screens - either the animation or the text-style info if the animation is disabled - would show in *their* native resolution (not sure if that was 640x480 or 800x600)...
I wasnt quite sure where to post this but when i start my machine and the "starting windows" screen comes up there is no win7 icon on the screen or anything. I just get a black screen with "starting windows" written at the bottom. Ideas? I'm not dual booting by the way.