Boot problems

[sandydisuza]

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]

Welcome to the forums.

 

[sandydisuza]

???????? 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]

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.

 

[sandydisuza]

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]

Does it boot up in safe mode fine? Have you checked out your boot settings for the delay option.

 

[SmurofNeves]

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

 

[sandydisuza]

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.

 

[SmurofNeves]

Its no easy task updating your BIOS!! I'd advise you to stay away from there... Lets rather work on this.Try .. Run >cmd >sfc /scannow after that chkdsk /r then reboot and wait for the chkdsk to complete all 5 stages.. Then report back,,

 

[SmurofNeves]

Do you have both OS's on one drive? Why does it give you the BOOT SELECTION?

 

[seekermeister]

A black screen with a blinking cursor is probably the result of not having the hard drive set as the first boot device in the BIOS Boot Priority. I get that when a CD/DVD drive is set first. It shouldn't delay the boot as much as it has in your case, but it is still work checking into.

 

[sandydisuza]

Do you have both OS's on one drive? Why does it give you the BOOT SELECTION?

I have installed Windows 7 on Seagate HHD (500 GB). When I start machine there is only HDD connected to PC. It is Seagate. My friend who is a computer expert is going to update the BIOS. Before that I am going to try yours method. Thank for quick reply. I will report you.

 

[SmurofNeves]

Not so great Idea.... But let me know how it went!!

 

[sandydisuza]

Not so great Idea.... But let me know how it went!!

Yesterday I updated BIOS and it worked! Thanks for your support and replies. May god fulfill all your dreams. All the best!

 

[SmurofNeves]

Why I said that its not a good idea is for the reason if something went wrong like a power outage or an interruption you would be buying a new motherboard.. But glad this issue has been solved.

 

[thakur]

I have windows 7 x64 laptop. Few months ago, I have installed windows 8 in a partition with primary boot as windows 8 and thus I had dual boot drive (windows 7 and windows8). As I didn't like windows 8 last week I have deleted the partition. Now the system is searching for windows 8 during the boot and not booting windows 7. Can you please help