Boot problems  

I have a machine with Intel 945GNT board, Transcend 2 GB RAM with 667 MHZ, Seagate 500 GB SATA HDD, Samsung 80 GB IDE HDD. Everything was going good with my XP, but when I installed Windows 7 Enterprise, it takes more than 5 minutes to come up to OS selection screen. Before coming to OS selection it has black screen with blinking cursor on left. I removed all partitions and tried installing Windows 7 on Seagate HDD with with other one removed at that time. Also did same with Samsung IDE but problem persists. Can anybody please help me? Thanks in advance!

SmurofNeves said:

???????? Please be a bit more descriptive!!

And welcome to the forums.

Whenever I try to boot into windows 7, I get blinking cursor on top left corner with black screen. This situation is there for 5 minutes and then it boots finely into Windows 7. Thanks in advance!

SmurofNeves said:

Are you running a 64bit or 32bit machine.. You should have a look at your BIOS settings to see if the bootup time is not being delayed by the BIOS.

Thanks for quick reply. I am running a 32 bit machine. I put my Win 7 installed HDD as first to boot. Also system becomes extremely slow within period of black screen. Even if i press numlock within that period, it takes 5 seconds to glow the led on key board. Please help!

SmurofNeves said:

Have you tried resetting the CMOS via the battery.?
You must also configure your startup applications,
-Run
-msconfig.exe
-startup

It boots fine in safe mode, but menu for booting in safe mode comes after black screen which stays there for 5 minutes. I haven't tried resetting CMOS. Please tell me if will it be resolved by updating BIOS. I am having bios version from year 2006. Latest is released in 2009.