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Windows 7 [32 bit / 64 bit] - Sleep / Resume problem
Good day all,
I'm usually not one to register to these types of forums, but I've ran out of ideas and am completely stuck. I will try to sum up my problem, history and the troubleshooting steps I've taken as best I can, but please feel free to request more if needed.
Description
First of all, the title of my post might be misleading, but it's what I am presuming is the root cause of all this... Just to be clear, Windows 7 [32 bit] had been working fine for the past three weeks+ before this occurred. Also, I had not made any recent software changes (at least not that day) and much less any hardware changes.
I had left my PC idle for the afternoon and came back while it was in sleep mode. When waking it I found that the components were starting up as usual, but the CPU fan was continuing to run at max speed for over 10 + seconds, rather than the short 5 seconds it does usually. Unable to get anything on the display or any response what-so-ever from the system, I proceeded to doing a hard shutdown. When booting back up, W7 advised that the system had been unable to resume my sleep session and prompted me to either 1) Delete the session and start from new or 2) Try to reload the session. I chose option 1. This brought me to the first appearance of the problem. The Starting Windows animation begins and just as it would usually go to the Login Screen, the system hangs and becomes unresponsive.
Things I did after
I went ahead and did another hard shutdown. This time, W7 advised that is was unable to boot correctly and that it could attempt a repair, so I did that... still same problem. Having a short fuse with this kind of stuff, I didn't bother doing much more and decided to re-install with the 64 bit version (I have access to both 32 bit and 64 bit W7 through MSDN). I booted up with a USB with Slax and backed up most of my data to an external HDD, popped in the 64 bit W7 DVD and scrapped the partitions and started re-installing. Everything seemed to go seamless until Windows started finishing the install at which point I got a black screen with a flashing cursor at the top left of the screen. At this point the system is unresponsive (numlock/caplocks light do not light on/offl when hitting the keys).Thinking this may have been caused by 64 bit W7, I tried re-installing the 32 bit version (which had been working fine before and successfully installed after scrapping my Windows XP partition I had before), and again SAME PROBLEM.
1) I tried resetting my BIOS to default settings to no avail.
2) As of the writing of this post I am currently trying to re-install Win XP to see if that would work (also doing the thorough NTFS format).
My thoughts have me leaning towards it being a bad HDD... but it's never happened to me before.
Any thoughts on this would be much appreciated.
Dan