Booting problems

manic111 · 28 Mar 2008 at 14:42

I am having trouble when booting Windows. It gets partway through the boot process (after the loading bar ends but before the Vista logo comes up) and then resets itself with no blue screen. Any ideas? I have run memtest and it is fine.

GingerNinja1989 · 28 Mar 2008 at 14:43

I had similar problem in my lappy... sent it back to HP and they claimed it to be a dead HDD. Dunno if I believe them though...

manic111 · 28 Mar 2008 at 15:04

Seems odd if it is-after rebooting itself a couple of times it boots to Windows and is perfectly stable when it reaches it. I have no corrupted data or anything either.

Tachyon · 28 Mar 2008 at 16:39

Does it definately reset itself, check it's not just your monitor and Windows is still booting up. If I have a DVI lead connected my setup reaches the same stage as you're getting to then the monitor goes into powersave mode. If I use a VGA lead I can get into Windows fine. Did you just install any drivers etc..?
In my case it's something to to with nvidia drivers, Vista & the monitor EDID.