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Boot menu at start up, 2 min of beeps before Win7 successfully starts
(Hello, people coming here with the same problem.
update/edit: the boot menu upon start up has been resolved with this
Start up beep issue has not been resolved. Upon start up, it is still beeping and displaying "starting windows" for minutes before windows successfully starts--but not in safe mode.)
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Thank you in advance for any help. I run Windows 7 Premium on a refurbished Acer that my mother gave me right after she let windows install updates,and only since then the computer has had this problem. It booted fine prior. Now when I power it on it goes straight to the boot menu, I select the operating system, then sit through 2 minutes of loud beeps while Win7 loads files then starts up. I have no recovery CD's or images (for this Acer but can burn from an Asus Win 7 64 bit) but barely know what I am doing and have tried:
*created system repair disk: successful--joy!
*System restore: successful once for 2/9/17 point but has failed for other points via safe mode, system recovery, and normal admin log in.
*windows memory diagnostic tool via system recovery: unsuccessful. Gets to end of scan, retarts, goes back to boot manager, does not display results (?) after loading windows successfully.
* Disk check via system recovery command prompt: unsuccessful? "chkdsk/r" did not work because the volume was right protected. "chkdsk c: /f /r/ /x" I tried three times and got a different message: failed to transfer logged messages, or in use by another process.
*Startup repair via boot disk and via boot manager, advanced boot options: unsuccessful with nothing attached to the computer! Grr. Both ways produced "start up repair could not detect a problem. If you have recently attached a device to this computer, ..., remove it and retart your computer."
Start up repair diagnostic and repair details
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last successful boot time: 3/19/2017
number of attempts: 2
session details
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system disk = /device/harddisk0
windows directory = d:/windows
autochk run = 0
number of root causes=1
test performed
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name: check for updates
result: completed successfully. Error code = 0x0
time taken : 15ms
test performed
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name system disk test
result: completed successfully. Error code = 0x0
time taken: 0ms
test performed
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name: disk failure diagnosis
result: completed successfully. Error code = 0x0
time taken: 219 ms
test performed
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disk metadata test
result: completed successfully. Error code = 0x0
time taken: 62 ms
test performed
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name: target OS test
result: completed successfully. Error code = 0x0
time taken: 203ms
test performed
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name: volume content check
result: completed successfully. Error code = 0x0
time taken: 234ms
test performed
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name: boot manager diagnosis
result: completed successfully. Error code = 0x0
time taken: 0 ms
test performed
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name: system boot log diagnosis
result: completed successfully. Error code = 0x0
time taken: 0ms
test performed
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name: event log diagnosis
result: completed successfully. Error code = 0x0
time taken: 46ms
test performed
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name: internal state check
result: completed successfully. Error code = 0x0
time taken: 246ms
test performed
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name: boot status test
result: completed successfully. Error code = 0x0
time taken: 47ms
root cause found:
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boot status indicates that the OS booted successfully
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Last edited by Pikake; 26 Mar 2017 at 23:48.