Hang Up On "Please Wait", System Restored, Now Black Screen?
May 31, 2012
So a couple of days ago, my PC started hanging up on a "Please Wait" loading screen in between the "Starting Windows" screen (where the Windows logo forms from coloured orbs) and the user account selection screen. Sometimes I'd leave it half an hour and it still wouldn't load.To start with, I simply gave my PC a hard reboot, and the problem would go away. When this stopped working, I system restored, and then the problem disappeared. This morning however, I performed a system restore from safe mode, and now when I boot my PC, in whatever mode, I get the "Starting Windows" screen, then the PC hangs up on a black screen with only the mouse pointer active.
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Dec 3, 2011
In the boot sequence, after the "starting windows" screen, Windows will freeze in a black screen as long as 15 seconds before proceeding to the "welcome" screen.
Tech Support Guy System Info Utility version 1.0.0.2
OS Version: Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate, 32 bit
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+, x64 Family 15 Model 107 Stepping 2
Processor Count: 2
RAM: 2046 Mb
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT, 512 Mb
Hard Drives: C: Total - 51199 MB, Free - 15553 MB; D: Total - 40754 MB, Free - 18391 MB; E: Total - 102421 MB, Free - 29962 MB;
Motherboard: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd., GA-MA78GPM-DS2H
Antivirus: ESET Smart Security 4.2, Updated and Enabled
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- im restarting the 7 and go to safemode, its worked. so my windows 7 can go to safemode
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