Windows 7/XP Boot Problems.
Rilkoh
Canada
In advance, this thread could be in part associated with some hardware problem, but regardless it is also has to do with booting in to Windows XP and Windows 7.
So, this weekend I was running Windows 7 32-bit just fine on my system:
MSI G31M-F Mobo
Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 (2.66ghz)
x2 OCZ Platinum 1GB
500GB Seagate Barracuda
Suddenly, I was getting constant freeze-ups; explorer would crash, tasks would lag, programs unresponsive, and so on. My hard drive seemed to be on a fritz.
I checked my resource manager, and I had a couple processes that were reserving 100% of my hard drive, notably consent.exe and svchost.exe. Knowing that consent.exe controls admin access to programs, and svchost could hide potential malicious activity that could be running in the background, I assumed I had a rootkit, or was hi-jacked.
I instinctively rebooted my computer every time I froze up, and always the loading into W7 was gruesomely long.
I fiddled around, tried scanning several times with several different programs (including root-kit scanners), but to no avail. Not wanting to spend more time troublshooting, I reformatted. No big deal.
But oh! No problem reinstalling W7, all went well. I quickly installed any missing drivers, and rebooted, yet again a looong 'Starting Windows' splash. I wait.
Loading.. loading.. loading. Flash. BSoD.
So I restart, wait again, and now when I reach the point when it's been loading for a couple minutes, it's instead reboots the computer all over again and does the same thing over again.
I tried reinstalling XP, see if that would fix anything, I get the same symptoms. Anytime I reinstall the OS (W7/XP) I can successfully boot once, and only once. Otherwise I get the same long load screen OR a "Windows didn't shut down correctly..."
Other additional symptoms that I don't understand is that my motherboard splash screen stays up longer than it typically does, and I'm unable to load up any system recovery tools from the Advanced Boot menu. =/
What's going on? I've tried a variety of things, including reconnecting devices and hardware, nothing seems to work. Has my hard drive gone caput?
Thanks, if there's any additional info needed, let me know.
So, this weekend I was running Windows 7 32-bit just fine on my system:
MSI G31M-F Mobo
Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 (2.66ghz)
x2 OCZ Platinum 1GB
500GB Seagate Barracuda
Suddenly, I was getting constant freeze-ups; explorer would crash, tasks would lag, programs unresponsive, and so on. My hard drive seemed to be on a fritz.
I checked my resource manager, and I had a couple processes that were reserving 100% of my hard drive, notably consent.exe and svchost.exe. Knowing that consent.exe controls admin access to programs, and svchost could hide potential malicious activity that could be running in the background, I assumed I had a rootkit, or was hi-jacked.
I instinctively rebooted my computer every time I froze up, and always the loading into W7 was gruesomely long.
I fiddled around, tried scanning several times with several different programs (including root-kit scanners), but to no avail. Not wanting to spend more time troublshooting, I reformatted. No big deal.
But oh! No problem reinstalling W7, all went well. I quickly installed any missing drivers, and rebooted, yet again a looong 'Starting Windows' splash. I wait.
Loading.. loading.. loading. Flash. BSoD.
So I restart, wait again, and now when I reach the point when it's been loading for a couple minutes, it's instead reboots the computer all over again and does the same thing over again.
I tried reinstalling XP, see if that would fix anything, I get the same symptoms. Anytime I reinstall the OS (W7/XP) I can successfully boot once, and only once. Otherwise I get the same long load screen OR a "Windows didn't shut down correctly..."
Other additional symptoms that I don't understand is that my motherboard splash screen stays up longer than it typically does, and I'm unable to load up any system recovery tools from the Advanced Boot menu. =/
What's going on? I've tried a variety of things, including reconnecting devices and hardware, nothing seems to work. Has my hard drive gone caput?
Thanks, if there's any additional info needed, let me know.
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First check the ram using a program called memtest
Then scan the harddrive using tools from your harddrive manufacturer.