Re-Starting from Hibernation, computer will not Boot

Well, since the unit did restore to a previous date and the hibernation issue was eliminated, I turned the machine off last night.

Mistake! Tried to boot and was back again stopping at the windows logo indicating that windows was starting………………which it then locked up.

Booted from the Windows 7 disk and it went through the repair routine until I was able to select Restore. After using the restore that worked yesterday, started getting the BOD on several attempts to boot.

Finally got to a System Recovery Tools screen and selected the memory check again, which worked the last time but not this time due to it locked up after 21% on the first past.

Rebooted again, this time the BOD was up just after starting from the System disk.

The last attempt for this night was to again hope that the startup disk would lead me to a System Restore, but it locked up prior to going anywhere.

Need a suggestion on how to get to System Restore other than what I have been trying. Did not do a backup for this month on the C Drive and am at this point reluctant to restore with Acronis True Image and loose all the various data that was stored in the My Dir area.

The only items that I can remember updating were for the motherboard which was a direct download from MSI through there update system. Items that I would immediately eliminate when I can would be “fast boot” and the program dealing with the hard drives. In retrospect, I should have downloaded those programs for install by using the one at a time method rather than download and install all. Big mistake…………I do think.

Did you read Troubleshooting Windows 7 Failure to Start. because it gives everything possible to Start Win7 but also tells you how to rescue your files (which are always there except with HD failure) and if necessary run Recovery or Clean Reinstall.

Keep trying System Restore and Startup Repair from System Recovery Options on DVD or Repair CD. What does Startup Repair report? Does it find an installation to repair ?

What were the results of the successful RAM test? Was it only Windows MD? We recommend RAM - Test with Memtest86+ for 5-6 passes to stress it. Having so much RAM makes it a suspect.

If you're running the bloated factory preinstall then I suggest you consider doing what most tech enthusiasts do which is to Clean Reinstall - Factory OEM Windows 7 following these steps to get a perfect install. There's really no MSI programs that are needed except to cause you problems.

Maybe I missed something in the “Troubleshooting Windows 7 Failure to Start” because under normal booting, the screen stops at the “starting windows”.

Machine can not get to Safe Mode. There is an attempt but it normally locks in the “Please wait”. I cannot get to a prompt at all to do anything.

I have kept trying System Restore and Startup Repair from System Recovery Options on DVD. The Startup Repair report, when it gets to the end or running, provides a listing and a request to send it to MS. It does find my main drive and other than Restore, does not always allow me to select and run and I get a BOD. Today’s BOD is BUGCODE_USB_DRIVER. Each day when I get a BOD, it is usually a different code.

I am trying to avoid using my Acronis Backup which is dated November 30, 2012. There are many items of data that I have saved to the main drive that I would like to keep. I am not interested in doing a new install of Win 7 so if I can not get to this drive, I will use that backup.

Number 9 in the list indicated data recovery through a copy, which I searched and found a disk from Paragon as Paragon Wipe 11. Loaded the disk and it looked like it allows me to copy various files to another disk. I selected what I thought that I wanted and currently am in the process of making that copy to another hard drive of 25.5 GBs.

THE PLAN:
After the copy is complete, which will take approximately 5 hours; I will use my Acronis backup from last month and hopefully the “copy” that I made will allow me to use it to update the data that I think I will need by “copy & paste” back to where it should belong.

If the copy of files is available as I have planned, then I should be alright. I will lose some programs that were installed in Dec. which I will have no record and will not be able to repeat these. These programs etc. will be lost, but this action needs to be taken since I need to use that computer again.

Alternate PLAN

It would be appreciated if you could advise me that there is an alternative that will revive my main drive as it was before or if my PLAN has a flaw that should be addressed.

When this works, I will remove the MSI apps, which I believe were the cause of this problem.

Your comments would be appreciated.

So it sounds like you've done two steps out of 11 in the tutorial to start unbootable Win7. It starts with disinfection because we can never assume its not infected and may not repair if so.

Most users just quit if Startup Repair won't fix their Win7 when run once. But did they know that Startup Repair can't fix it at all if for some reason the boot partition is not still marked Active? That's why it specifies in tutorial how to check that the Win7 100mb boot partition is indeed marked Active, before running three separate Startup Repairs no matter what it reports. If these fail, there it says to move the Active flag to C and run the same number of Repairs again.

So if you didn't do all of that, even the one Startup Repair step you did run wasn't done fully.

Then there are bootrec commands to run and several other things to try before doing the reinstall.

If you reinstall I would delete all partitions during install and repartition as desired before reinstall using the installer Drive Options shown in Steps 6/7 of Clean Install Windows 7.

And be sure to study the steps in Clean Reinstall - Factory OEM Windows 7 so you get a perfect reinstall.

I took your advise and copied the 11 steps to my WP and did them one by one. Most of them I could not complete but I gave it a shot. The results were the same being no correction to the issue.

Prior to going to my other plan as mentioned previously, I checked the MB manual and tried to reset the CMOS. There was button on the MB and instructions on how to in the MSI extended manual.

It worked.

I have restarted a number of times without issue. I have not tried a cold boot but will do that tonight. It would appear until tomorrow anyway, that the problem has been solved. Will report tomorrow with the results

When a step cannot be completed, ask back here for help so you can complete it, instead of skipping most of the 11 steps and then later saying "I must have missed something..."

Let us know if the BIOS reset solves it.

I turned it on and off several times and it is working fine.

After doing MemTest, I removed some memory sticks and left the 4x3 in place instead of the 2x3 which was there originally. Strangely, MemTest only shows 8GB total, but does show the three memory units in place.

Other than the memory issue, all seems to be alright.

I did pull the 3 units and mixed and put them back but still only shows 8GB.

Box maker indicated that this might be the beginning of a MB failure. Is this a possibility? or did they want just to make me buy a new MB?

Any comments.....................or should I show this as solved and do the memory issue separately?

The RAM tutorial shows how to isolate the problem sticks and/or slots so you can avoid them. Not really worth repairing if the board is older.