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Boot problem
Suggestions are requested for cause and cure of boot problems on an
IBM/Lenovo M52, running Win7 (updated) with a ViewSonic ViewSonic 2033 LED monitor, beginning about two weeks after replacing a (clicky) drive C: with a Samsung 860 EVO SSD (with no problems at cloning and installation.) At cold boot, the system hangs at "Starting Windows" with rows of coloured stripes across the screen. These are nonuniform, i.e. appear in any of three or four different patterns (just once with also the four-colour flag, but Win7 failed to start. Switching on and off again may or may not start Windows normally. I usually get there after three to five restarts. I checked inside the case for dust bunnies and reseated all drive cable connectors and four units of 1 Gb RAM -- no improvement. A further malfunction after successful boot was "USB unavailable" which prevented USB mouse for about 20 sec. but corrected itself. I cured this by verifying printers and removing ghost instructions to print 3 or 4 pages. Another anomaly was that Network Detection switched itself off, but I could turn that back on. (This PC is linked via wireless to another desktop and a laptop on different floors of the house.) This pattern of failure to boot is new in the last two days, two weeks after installing the SSD drive C. I should be grateful if anyone knows what causes this and how to prevent it. -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) |
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