Solved Black screen at startup

[phenix]

Thanks for any help or point me to where I can read.
I am running Windows 7 Professional 32-bit.
Went I do a fresh boot I get a totally black screen for about 40 seconds give or take before the Windows message appears.
Is it some possible program mix that I have?

 

[bigmck]

You don't list you CPU in your specs (not your case size). What kind do you have? I see your HD is pretty small. Could you post a screen shot of your Disk Management. Thanks,

 

[phenix]

Thank you Bigmck for responding.
Running a Dell Precision Workstation T3400.
80g HD, 2.33 memory
I have attached a file of the "Disk Management" in pdf format.
Hope that's ok.

 

[bigmck]

How full is your drive? If there is hardly any free space, that could slow things down. Click on the "Computer" icon on the desktop and that will tell you the amount of free space in both your C: and D: drive

 

[phenix]

C drive has 44 GB free
D drive has 17 GB free
This is about a black screen at startup before the "Start Windows" message appears

 

[karlsnooks]

phenix,
The questions you were asked are because quite often what you are seeing is because of a drive with very little free space available, which doesn't appear to be the case here.

Download, install and run CCleaner (link in my sig). Run the cleaner portion thereof.

After that, then carry out following:

LIST OF STARTUP PROGRAMS USING CCLEANER


CCleaner | Tasks icon | Startup tab | click on Save to text file button (bottom right side)

Using the PAPER CLIP icon in the top panel of a Message Reply window, attach the .txt file generated by CCleaner.

 

[phenix]

Thanks for answering Karl.
I have attached the info requested.
If it is not right tell me and I will do it again.

 

[karlsnooks]

For right now, uncheck ALL except for:

egui "C:\Program Files\ESET\ESET Smart Security\egui.exe" /hide /waitservice

Unchecking doesn't delete anything. Just tells Win 7 to not run them at startup time.

 

[phenix]

I did what you asked Karl.
Black screen still prevailed for about 40 seconds upon a new startup.
Waiting further instructions.

 

[karlsnooks]

As an experiment, uncheck eset, completely disable your eset and restart your computer.

 

[Heyyou]

I have always had a momentary black screen during boot up, which sports the arrow at the end followed by the Welcome screen. I had it on my XP computer and now on my WIN7 computer. I assumed it is normal. I have 1TB of free space.

 

[karlsnooks]

phenix,
You can help us out by adding a little more info to your System Specs:

UPDATE YOUR SEVENFORUMS SYSTEM SPECS


User CP (3rd item in the top menu bar) |
in left-hand column, under Your Profile, Edit System Spec |


Use Speccy - System Information - Free Download
and/or SIW to gather info for filling in the blanks.

Do me a favor and add the word laptop or desktop to the “system manufacturer” block.

Use the “Other Info” block for Optical Reader, Mouse, touchpad, wifi adapter, speakers, monitor

Scroll down and click on the SAVE CHANGES button.

 

[phenix]

Hi Karl,
Could you be a tad more specific what you want on System Information as SIW
is quite large. Will update more tomorrow.
Thanks

 

[karlsnooks]

phenix,
Generally, what we want is the info blocks filled in on your User Profile.

I ask for more info as shown in my post.

SIW helps you find the answers. Generally speaking, Speccy will provide all of the requested info and is not overwhelming.

 

[phenix]

Updated as requested.
A few I had no idea what they meant.

 

[karlsnooks]

phenix,
completely disable Eset and see what your performance is then.

 

[karlsnooks]

phenix,
Is this computer connected to the internet or to any other network?

 

[phenix]

Hi Karl,
I disabled ESET and the black screen lasted between 35 and 40 seconds.
I am not connected to any networks.

 

[karlsnooks]

good.
Now completely remove ESET and install MSE (link in my sig). ESET is excellent, however, the least interring protection software is MSE.

Download, install and run Soluto. Soluto will make some suggestions to you.

Soluto

 

[phenix]

I think I have solved the problem.
I have this quirk where I avoid changing any drivers.
So I went up on Dell and downloaded a vista driver for the BIOS.
I was running a03 and the new bios is a11.
This reduced the black screen to 6 seconds. Quite tolerable.