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Old March 28th 18, 10:40 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
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Default Win 7 Startup Problems - Again!

On Wed, 28 Mar 2018 10:02:49 -0400, Paul
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dadiOH wrote:
"philo" wrote in message
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On 03/27/2018 03:43 PM, wrote:
After replacing the HD one week ago, it worked fine every day, until
today.

Now some of the same symptoms are back:

Everything appears normal up to the Login screen. I enter my password
and "Welcome" appears but nothing more happens.

Sometimes it will finish startup, but take much longer.

No error messages appear except on a restart after a lockup, the
basic Windows startup menu appears because of a failed proper
shutdown.

I'm really upset. After all I did, it appears I'm back to square one.
I have no idea what to try now.



Could be a RAM problem or possibly a bad mobo.


Or power supply


The OP has already tested the RAM, which passed.

And if it is a power supply issue, why does it have
the earmarks of a "failed profile at startup" ? A power
supply failure will cause random failures at different
times of the day. Or perhaps consistently, when the
system has "power peaks". I've seen power peaks at
BIOS level (because the power management isn't very good
there), and if the PSU is pooping out, it could die
just as easily at BIOS level, before the desktop appears.

If, during shutdown, the system is actually doing "unclean"
shutdowns, that could be damaging some registry related
stuff. If you had "Automatically Reboot" set, your system
probably wouldn't shut down for you. It would reboot.
If the Automatically Reboot on a failure wasn't set, the
system could crash during shutdown, not write the registry
properly, and just... stop. Sometimes you get log entries
for things like that (Event Viewer), but not if it was a BSOD.
It might crash before having time to make a log entry.

Now, that's a lot of supposition on my part, but it's the
most likely thing to be messing up the profile (without
it being a disk issue, and the disk has been replaced).

When it comes to "BSOD Spectrum", if you look at a large
number of BSODS on your system, you'll notice a fingerprint.
For example, say the NVidia driver is really crap, then
there will be a ton of BSODS with "nvxx" in the name for
you to look at. If, on the other hand, the power supply
is bad, you'll be getting obscure errors nobody has
ever heard of. Ones you might have trouble finding in
the Aumha STOP list. At the moment, the OPs symptoms
seem to be pretty focused, but we don't have an overview
of Event Viewer to see anything else that might be
interesting. Or a view of any minidumps.

(Pictures for dramatic effect...)

https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html

Paul


Thanks Paul, and to the others. I've started making notes of every
weird thing that I notice.

I printed out all of the replies and will try to absorb it. My
progress is slow but I'll keep after it and report back.

Also going to fire up another PC and update my must-have apps so I can
have reliable net access.

Thanks,

DC

Maybe I really do have Mad Cow...
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