I've checked and General is "normal" and boot is not ticked.I get about 15 secs of blackness, 5 secs of progress bar at the bottom,another 10 secs of blackness and then Vista.If I tick no gui in boot, I get "aurora" for the whole duration with no progress bar.
It boots on the F2 setup screen does several seconds of the loading bar, then my screen says 'no signal' and it goes back to the F2 setup screen and freezes. Then I have to turn of my computer by holding down the power button and start it again the second time where it boots fine.
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If the folder opens and explorer doesn't crash, then the only way I could fix this was to reboot, and after that it would be fine. By the way, when I open the folder, the window is completely black, and I cannot blindly click on the files nor can I rummage through them with my keyboard, etc. Another thing that this affects is the start menu. When I click the start menu, it is completely grey and partially transparent, like the top line of an explorer window (if settings are set to make it transparent). From there, I cannot select any file or option to open, and I cannot shut down, hibernate, log off, etc. from there. Basically, I want to know what is causing this to happen, how to prevent it, and what to do (other than reboot or force restart explorer.exe) when this happens again.
i started noticing a vista hang after the bootup..it stays on the black screen for about a min before the logon screen, before this it was like 2 seconds...wat could be wrong?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have a GW M6307 2gigs ram with VHP 32 bit. Over the last several days on start-up the computer will show the GW screen for about 150 sec. then boot normally. I did do a Java update just before this started and have since uninstalled and reinstalled Java with no problem. I ran malware bytes(no issues) SFC ( 2 files repaired from log) and CHK disc. After shutting down for 10min. and a start-up the GW logo was normal(6 sec) with swift boot. This lasted 2 days. I ran SFC again and that appeared to fix the issue again for 2 days.
There appears to be nothing wrong anywere,in fact the box works great. All my drivers and bios are up to date.
It's more of a PIA then a problem....What would be the possible causes for the box to hang on the GW logo for so long??
I am unsure what has caused my problem, so I was hoping someone may be able
to shed some light on it for me. I am running, Vista Business 32bit. Everything had been working fine, but without any changes to hardware, software or drivers I now have resolution problems. Firstly, when I boot my pc up it all goes well until just after the ???Windows Vista??? logo at the bottom of the screen comes up (during boot) the monitor goes into standby mode. Now the only way I have found to get my monitor out of this is to unplug the DVI cable from the back of my tower and plug in back in. The monitor then runs as normal ??? SO THATS ONE PROBLEM. Secondly, when the above problem first happened (and this is still happening) my resolution is stuffed. My monitor can go up to 1680x1050 and my Video Card can easily handle this. (Which it had been doing). But now I can only achieve 1024 x 768.
The first time vista launched I noticed that the sound at the opening logo screen was just a long hard screeching sound. Then when I started clicking around and installing my programs in the desktop environment I noticed that all the sounds had been replaced by horrific screeching sounds. After installing the Windows updates (hoping this might solve the sound problem) and my video drivers I restarted my pc. At the startup I still had the screeching sounds but now I also had white garbled lines on my desktop. When I started moving around my mouse cursor the screen started to get stuck at some places and white squares started showing up everywhere. Then finally, to end it all my pc just jumped to standby mode and all I could do is reset the pc with the powerbutton. When restarting the problem starts allover again. When starting up in save mode the white garble and squares don't show up, but the sound stays screechy.
View 4 Replies View Relatedabout a week ago my screen on my 6 month old laptop started looking stretched horizontally, I swear I didn't change any settings and have looked at the DPI and resolution to see whether that helps. Everything just looks wider and slightly out of focus, I'd really love it to be back to normal!
View 6 Replies View RelatedI've been running Vista for a few months now without much complaint until recently. After booting, the green loading bar is followed by the windows logo before the screen flickers several dark colors and then produces a black screen with a movable cursor. The hard drive light remains unlit after the black screen. Running in safe mode gives the same result. I do not have a repair disk and I would rather not wipe the hard drive with a factory default disk as I have important data on my hard disk.
View 7 Replies View RelatedMy computer is encountering a black screen with a movable cursor after the windows logo on start up and I have no idea what is causing this. When I start from safe mode (safe mode, safe mode with cmd prompt) it does the same thing. One thing that I've noticed is that when I run it in safe mode it stops at crcdisk and continues on to the black screen.
View 5 Replies View Relatedmy computer crash,and now all i get is a black screen which read the primary ide master hard drive self monitoring system has reported a parameter has exceeded it normal range.
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View 5 Replies View Relatedwhile I was playing my computer suddenly restarted but it wasn´t a normal restart cuz the screen just went black and nothing happened, after waiting several minutes I had to shut it down. When I turned it on nothing happened again and my screen went black so I kept trying to restart it andfinally after some attempts I got it to start but while it was loading vista a blue screen appeared and it restarted again. So I managed to restart it on safe mode and I got this blue screen again and a restart. This time the restart was worst cuz it won´t load anything, the screens just turns black, can´t access the BOOT menu or anything. I manged to take this picture of the blue screen.
View 6 Replies View RelatedThis is the best install I have ever done (or was)…I did a fresh install and followed a tweak which was to very enlightening, to say the least. From there I have been to a few other sites and moved on to fully customizing my desktop/login and……well…this is where I stuffed up…My BOOT screen no longer works properly, even with the original “winload.exe.mui” file replaced.
I downloaded and used “Vista Boot Logo Generator” I loved the results on my last install…It worked well. Upon deciding to do a fresh install with Tweaking in mind, I simply coppied over a Boot logo I made previously after allowing permissions and all that as well as changing the NO GUI in msconfig…ect….BUT......
So a few weeks ago, I was using my Gateway M-Series laptop with Vista Home Premium installed and I ran into a problem while using Firefox. The computer screen had a white-ish glow overlapping the desktop background and the computer had locked up. I had to turn off the computer manually and later, I tried rebooting it. Since then, my computer has failed to boot, and after many attempts of trying to access the "Recovery Drive" and other boot settings (Safe Mode etc..) I am stuck. The computer will boot the Gateway screen, give me options to the BIOS Menu & Settings (which I can access) and will eventually take me to a screen with two options: 1) "Launch Startup Repair (recommended)" and 2) "Start Windows Normally." I have tried booting with both options and neither will fully boot. After the Windows loading screen, the screen will go black and a very discreet sound emits from what I believe is the hard drive.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI am experiencing very slow boot up of Vista Home Premium 32 bit. It takes good 10 - 12 minutes to completely boot up. I am using Dell desk top inspiron with 4 Gb RAM. I did some research and learnt how to filter the event log and diagnose where the degradation occurs. In my case, a lot of degradation found in loading drivers like sound and video. Also AVG resident shield slows down.
When I first turn on the system, black screen with a mouse curser appears for two - three minutes. Then Welcome message appears and again it blanks out for another two to three minutes. Then the desk top appears and the icons are slowly appearing. By the time complete boot is in place - system idle mode, it is ten to twelve minutes.
For a at least a month now my computer has been freezing about five minutes after starting the boot-up sequence (as in 5 minutes after hitting the power button). No BSoD or anything. Just a freeze. I have tried many different things to troubleshoot. First let me tell you my specs and then I'll tell you what I've already tried so far.
Running Windows Vista x64 SP1 now here's what I've tried so far: initially tried system restore to a point before the problem started scanned for viruses and malware using Avira, Trendmicro online scan, Avast, Superantispyware and Malwarebytes upgraded my motherboard's BIOS returned all settings to stock upped the videocard fan speeds using Rivatuner replaced the video card ran chkdsk searched google endlessly for solutions I may be forgetting other things.
I'll let you know as hey are proposed. Usually I can finally get it to boot after several tries and I can play games normally and whatnot. Just now I was finally able to get it to boot on the 5th try. Another symptom that may or may not be related is that sometimes it freezes when you attempt to do something like attach a photo to a web-based email or upload photos to an online photo site. I built this system myself and I really hope I can get this fixed. I think my wife may be losing faith in me! Let me know any other info I can post that might help. My technical proficiency is pretty high.
I have a pc that has been booting slow and I checked in the performance area and found two issues effecting the system. One is for slow startup, and it gives me three programs that are doing this. I see one I will not be able to do anything with and two I should. They are:
1.) Symantec ( 67.7 seconds) ccSvchst.exe
2.) Acrobat Distiller (51.1 seconds) acrodist.exe
3.) Windows Mail (28.4 seconds) WinMail.exe
I went to find the programs and get them to stop loading "2 and 3) but they still load up. How do I stop them from loading on startup? Also on the other issue for visual settings. I tried to goto basic vista display but still get this Performance issue coming up in the Advanced tools area.
this Vista Ultimate goes into a permanent hard freeze during boot-up. Waiting it out does no good. It happens as it displays the little scroll bar. So far my solution of re-starting at 'last good startup' has worked, but I am wondering what might be causing the problem.
View 4 Replies View RelatedSuddenly my CounterSpy pops up with something saying that a program is trying to change my registry, I wasn't trying to do anything with that so I hit block. Few seconds later another CS pop up says "A known program is attempting to run was blocked" All it said was Program: services.exe (Misc (general )). Then about a minute later the system rebooted itself.
So after it rebooted it'll take me to the "Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause." screen with the safe mode options. Here's where the prob starts. After I select any of the safe modes (w/networking, w/command prompt, last know good config.,) or start windows normally I jus get looped back to the BSOD and go through this cycle of rebooting and back to the safe mode select screen. I've tried popping in the windows install cd and trying to repair from there via recovery. It works. Nice! The thing is it recovers right to where the whole mess started with the CounterSpy pop up and I have about 60 seconds to where the system will reboot itself and I'm back to the BSOD and safe mode screens. So basically I'm runnin in cicrles here. It's Vista Premium 32bit btw
I have a Toshiba Laptop which came pre-installed with Vista home. Lately, I have received an Invalid Partition Table on bootup. I tried using the recovery disk with the OS on it as a boot disk but it doesn't seem to be working even when I tell the bios to boot from CD/DVD.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have 2 pc's running vista Home premium. As of the morning of 5/7/08, both of them are having an issue after bootup where cpu usage is near 100% for about 20-30 minutes. The computers are completely un-usable in this state. Looking at resource monitor(which takes about 10 minutes to load), both are showing svchost (netsvcs) PID 1456 at 100%. After this initial 20 to 30 minute lock up session, both computers seem to work fine. After investigating the issue a bit, it has something to do with windows update. If I go to control panel windows update, and try to update, the same thing happens.
Not sure if this means anything but both computers have update KB940510 under the windows update control panel console, dated 5/7/2008. From researchign this update it is something to do with windows validation. Both PC's have OEM installs of vista, so I dont 'think' the validation is the issue.......
for a coupla months now but it finally got to me last night, my Vista 32bit PC is hogging my physical memory on bootup---seems like forever. my light on front is constantly on. i ran through a lot of tests last night to see whats up. i did see major spikes in my resources moniter. but i could not see or find what was useing it up. my physical memory showed 65% usage. i managed to do some windows updates and reboot which helped. i also ran chkdsk for my C hard drive.(i have 3 hard drives total). since it rebooted without me there, i assume the C hard drive may be ok.
I have a Logitech optical mouse and I need it to be rt.click. Whenever I reboot, Vista Premium resets to default. It is o.k at the user window and almost at the end of the desktop b4 it resets. Vista also deletes my passwords in Outlook 2002/XP every bootup.But Vista Mail is untouched.
View 4 Replies View RelatedFor some reasom this folder opens without promoting everytime I start my pc. A little annoying but is there a way to stop this ?
View 3 Replies View RelatedNeed To Fix Boot Logo OS?Vista Home Premium/service pack 1. This is the best install I have ever done (or was)?I did a fresh install and followed a tweak guide at 'NBR Vista Tips and Tweaks Guide - Notebook Forums and Laptop Discussion' which was to very enlightening, to say the least. From there I have been to a few other sites and moved on to fully customizing my desktop/login and??well?this is where I stuffed up?My BOOT screen no longer works properly, even with the original ?winload.exe.mui? file replaced.
I downloaded and used ?Vista Boot Logo Generator? I loved the results on my last install?It worked well. Upon deciding to do a fresh install with Tweaking in mind, I simply coppied over a Boot logo I made previously after allowing permissions and all that as well as changing the NO GUI in msconfig?ect?.BUT
The problem is as follows:??..The original auora background comes up?...and without the Windows is Loading Text???......I mean wtf?I just moved and replaced the original file and I get this on reboot. I have tried making more logos but everytime I restart the same thing. I have disable and re-enabled the boot gui option in msconfig?even putting back the original file does not get it working properly as the loading text is gone from that pic???
I am running Vista Home Premium x64. Everytime I bootup, the Language Pack removal service runs (as it is supposed to, apparently).
However, Vista seems to treat this as a significant system event, which triggers a restore point to be created. The restore point creation is slowing down access to my hard disk everytime I reboot.
When I look at the list of restore points that Vista has created, a restore point is created at every bootup due to the event “Uninstall: Language Pack Removal”. I can see the list by running “System Restore”, then selecting “choose another restore point” and clicking Next.
Any idea how to stop the restore point being created at every bootup? I assume there’s a good reason Vista runs the Language Pack removal service at every bootup, so I’d rather keep that running.
I also want a restore point created when there is a software install/uninstall, so want to keep the system restore service running, too.
After changing the bios settings for the pci-e freq and (dumb) the cpu voltage to 1.0 it doesnt do anything after saving and restarting .. it just powers on and nothing boots up, nothing onscreen at all (i made sure the monitor is hooked up right too) i didnt do anything other than the bios changes from when just before it worked fine. I changed those things to try and fix the stutter from the sound card. I made and tested a caldera dos boot CD disk with the asus flash utility but it wont boot it up. just runs with nothing happening.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI would like to put my own logo on the icons on my desktop. I can go in and find lots of icons but would prefer my own, ie: bank logo, ebay logo, etc. Is this possible?
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View 4 Replies View RelatedI have A computer In witch i have Done Something In BIOS... I have Set Hight Performance options Default .. So i Set this Option And then Saved And Exited But when The Computer StartS it Looks Like Having another Bios Another Logo and Dont Start Up Neither windows Nor Go ine thE Bios Options So Is there A way To Restore My Previsous Settings OR Something Like That Or To RESET to factory Defaults.I have tried to remove the Battery and Put it Back again But nothing happened :I dont Know Exactly Witch Is my Motherboard But the Only I Remember It Is that the Bios Manufacturer Was AMI : American Megatrends INC.
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