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Windows doesn't boot after Updates, tried a lot...
Hey there.
So I was trying to update my Windows 7 Home Premium on my rather dated Asus A6JA notebook but after installing updates through Windows Update the system fails to boot anymore, it simply freezes just before showing the Windows boot logo or text, thus a black screen (just after BIOS check it freezes with no message displaying).
NOTE: The system works flawlessly after installing W7 Home Premium with SP1, error only happens when updating packages through Windows update afterwards. It's over 100 updates, so I cannot really pinpoint the culprit, alas!
Things I've tried so far:
- Trying to boot in Safe Mode => same freeze
(Halts after loading/displaying CI.dll)
- Trying to set an earlier restore point before the Updates took place via Recovery console but I get an error 0x80000FFFF that the system failed to restore to a previous point.
- Ran sfc /scannow through the Command Prompt in Recovery console but I get a "system repair pending which requires reboot" message, thus failes, since I cannot successfully (re)boot the system.
- Ran bcdboot C:\Windows, bootrec /FixMBR, bootrec /FixBoot => didn't help, boot freeze remains.
- Tried booting with log files enabled but Ntbtlog.txt is NOT being created to check :/
- Did a full wipe and format, fresh Windows install with only SP1 installed (again, system boots and works flawlessly at this point) but once hitting Updates and rebooting = system freezes again.
- Updated BIOS and Mainboard Intel Chip drivers, updated graphics drivers etc to the latest versions and trying updating Windows updates afterwards, again same freeze.
- Tried Startup Repair through Recovery, says it didn't find any boot errors.
- Ran a chkdisk with all possible flags, no errors found.
- Checked for faulty RAM and HDD, no errors found.
I know for certain the ASUS A6JA does work with Windows 7 but I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I figure a particular Windows update is messing with the drivers but I don't know how to pinpoint it.
I didn't install any software, just a clean Windows 7 install incl. SP1, nothing more.
Any ideas?