What causes Windows Boot to stall?
- by Nick Berardi
For about 6 months now I have been having this weird problem where Windows 7 fails to fully boot correctly. What happens is this.
Starting Windows shows up on the screen.
Then 3 out of 4 times nothing else happens, no Windows Flag animation, just nothing occurs.
After 3 or 4 restarts repeating steps 1-2 above, the Windows Flag animation finally shows up and everything works as expected.
My question is what is causing this problem in steps 1 and 2? Because I have tried the following with no luck:
Error checking and correcting of any disk errors
Updating drivers
Doing a clean install of Windows 7
My setup is as follows:
Windows 7 64-bit Ultimate
8 GB RAM
128 GB Crucial SSD (firmware 0005)
Dell Latitude E6410
Intel Wireless and Graphics
Other than what I have tried above I am totally out of ideas and looking for some new ones to try.