Vista Boot issue

Hi,

We have two identical Vista machines (hardware wise). They are running Vista
Corp 64bit. When one of them boots, it sits at a black screen before the
login. Sometimes it will sit here for 2 minutes, sometimes 15mins, depends.
No hdd activity, no error logs, no nothing.

SP1 has been installed and still no joy.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Brink
Thu Apr 03 15:36:52 PDT 2008


Gorge Lucas;671539 Wrote:
> Hi
>
> We have two identical Vista machines (hardware wise). They are runnin
> Vist
> Corp 64bit. When one of them boots, it sits at a black screen befor
> th
> login. Sometimes it will sit here for 2 minutes, sometimes 15mins
> depends
> No hdd activity, no error logs, no nothing
>
> SP1 has been installed and still no joy
>
> Any ideas
>
> Thank

Hi Gorge

You might try running a Startup repair to see if it can find and fi
anything. This will show you how if needed

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/91467-startup-repair.htm

Shaw

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Gorge
Thu Apr 03 17:01:12 PDT 2008


"Brink" <Brink.37bc96@no-mx.forums.net> wrote in message
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>
> Gorge Lucas;671539 Wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> We have two identical Vista machines (hardware wise). They are running
>> Vista
>> Corp 64bit. When one of them boots, it sits at a black screen before
>> the
>> login. Sometimes it will sit here for 2 minutes, sometimes 15mins,
>> depends.
>> No hdd activity, no error logs, no nothing.
>>
>> SP1 has been installed and still no joy.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks
>
> Hi Gorge,
>
> You might try running a Startup repair to see if it can find and fix
> anything. This will show you how if needed.
>
> http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/91467-startup-repair.html
>
> Shawn

Cheers,

Will give this a try, thanks.

>
>
> --
> Brink
>
> *There are no dumb questions, just the people that do not ask
> them.*
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Rick
Thu Apr 03 17:14:31 PDT 2008

Hi,

Since they're identical, swap the hard drives and see if the behavior moves
as well. If it does, then it's the either the hard drive or the
installation. If it doesn't, then it's the hardware on the machine that's
stalling. I suspect the latter, possibly memory, psu, or motherboard.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
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Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"Gorge Lucas" <help@testingsvr.com> wrote in message
news:utrFcLdlIHA.464@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> We have two identical Vista machines (hardware wise). They are running
> Vista Corp 64bit. When one of them boots, it sits at a black screen before
> the login. Sometimes it will sit here for 2 minutes, sometimes 15mins,
> depends. No hdd activity, no error logs, no nothing.
>
> SP1 has been installed and still no joy.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks
>