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| 1378673 | 2014-07-07 10:25:00 | Is this Dual Booting , windows and some other OS ? Log files: www.techrepublic.com for the link. I'm triple-booting Win7, Vista and Win 8.1 preview. |
Tony (4941) | ||
| 1378674 | 2014-07-07 10:39:00 | I've checked out msconfig and enabled boot logging but as someone pointed out, that is presumably not going to kick in until I've selected an OS, and the hang is before that point so I'm not sure it will tell us anything useful. | Tony (4941) | ||
| 1378675 | 2014-07-07 10:49:00 | Dont know if this will be of any use or not, but found a thread on Acronis, exact same problem, triple booting, slow with flashing cursor. No info has been given here, eg: was the case opened, something added etc, but have a read forum.acronis.com The answer is in post 17 for this case. ( on Acronis) It looks like the cause is the HDD is not booting/detecting the correct order. The above article may or may not trigger some memory ( no matter how minor it may seem) to whats happened ? |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1378676 | 2014-07-07 11:18:00 | Just a thought -- If you have multi drives, once it boots, run crystaldisk Info on the PC, make sure a HDD is not failing. crystalmark.info | wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1378677 | 2014-07-10 22:02:00 | I downloaded Crystaldisk and that reports all my drives are OK. I looked at that link to the Acronis forum, and the situation is remarkably similar to mine in that I also have a new SSD, although I'm thinking my issue predates the purchase. I tried the things suggested in that thread, but nothing has made any difference. I'm not going to spend any more time on it atm, as it is not a major impediment. Thanks everyone for the help and advice. |
Tony (4941) | ||
| 1378678 | 2014-07-12 02:51:00 | Update - I had the flashing cursor hang up this morning, but when I did the three-finger salute, it didn't do the POST again, just the enumeration - once - and then went on to the OS selection. Curiouser and curiouser... | Tony (4941) | ||
| 1378679 | 2014-07-17 02:15:00 | I think I may have found the problem. I had been separately having occasional problems with my network connections (i.e. no connection and red X in notification area) when Windows started, and a reboot would fix it. Finally a light dawned and I removed my network card and reconnected to the on board ethernet. Rebooted, and the enumeration still happened twice but with no pause in between, and the network connected immediately. Maybe it was always doing the double enumeration but was happening so quickly I didn't notice until it started pausing. |
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