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Strange behavior on windows startup
Hello.
Since about two days I have been experiencing a strange windows behavior while starting the system.
When powering the PC up, it goes through the post operations fine.
Then, it gets to the windows loading screen, the one with the colored lights orbiting.
The problem is that, when the logon screen should light up, i get a black screen. The display acts like it hasn't got an input signal (switching between digital and analog several times, then powering down; power led blinking).
The system stays in this state for about 90-100 seconds, then the logon screen appears and everything works fine.
I was wondering if I need to start worrying about some hardware which may be failing, or if it is something in the windows startup process that is creating trouble.
I can say that I went through the event logs, and there are no errors. In the system ones, there is only a strangely long time (abt two mins) between the kernel-cpu events and the "plug and play service running" one. The nvidia display driver seems to be working fine.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Mark