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Win 7 start-op woes
It boots as far as the Windows start-up animation, and then it hangs, no disk activity, just a solid black screen, or pale orange, turquoise or any number of other pastels I have experienced so far. Mind you, sometimes it actually boots to the desktop, it's a 50/50 chance. Yay!
But the threshold is always right after the animation, that's when the trepidation starts: will it go into windows? will it actually start? do I have to go again thru a half hour of repairs, diagnostics, scans and what have you, that solve exactly nothing?
Check disk - done it (more than once) no problems. Sfc /scannow - done it (more than once) no problems. Virus scans with MSSecurity Essentials, Malwarebytes, HerdProtect, Rootkit Scanner - done it (more that once) no problems.
Now comes the fun stuff:
Since the start-up hangs, my only option is to restart manually with the restart button. Then, because it failed to boot previously, start-up repair comes on automatically, and as it goes thru its diagnostics it tells me that there is something wrong, but it doesn't know what and it can't repair it and would I like to tell Microsoft about it? Sure, lets tell 'em, as if they care... Then the PC restarts, and this time it boots all the way to the desktop - that means start-up repair did do something to nudge the system into compliance, although unwittingly. Now, let's have a look at the Event Viewer, which tells me that the system was "not cleanly shut down" and that this "unclean shut down was unexpected", which is not quite true because my finger did the shutting down, so I did expect the shut-down, but it must have been a surprise for the machine... Nothing else in Event Viewer.
I have tried startup repair, system repair disk, system repair from Windows installation disk, and Windows will always boot up after running any of these..., until it hangs again the next morning. Blech!
Been experimenting a bit with this situation and it seems that when the system hangs again after another failed startup and I am prompted for system repair, I don't have to go thru with the repair, just initialize the repair program and then choose to start normally: and behold, Windows starts! That means whatever is wrong with it is being fixed simply by starting the repair program and then choosing to restart normally from within that program before actually doing any repair. Is that weird, or what??
other issues: USB keyboard not recognized during boot (though USB legacy devices enabled in BIOS), have to use PS/2 keyboard. Some times during startup repair USB mouse has no cursor - makes navigating menus challenging/impossible. Sometimes PC does not wake from sleep, have to reboot without "cleanly shutting down" - and then the whole above described scenario repeats.
Windows is installed on SSD.
help, please
Last edited by klauskunkel; 04 Dec 2017 at 22:42. Reason: grammar