Windows Hangs on Boot

Trojan Horse

Trojan Horse

Trojan Horse

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Whenever I boot my windows, straight after the BIOS screen there is a keyboard cursor (underline) in grey, on the top right, blinking.

After a few seconds the cursor dissapears and then it goes black for another 30 seconds and then the windows logon screen finally appears.


It takes much longer than it should. I usually see the windows screen within 20 seconds but now is taking longer than a minute. I own an SSD and I don't know how it could have/why it changed?

The only thing I did recently was add page file on new internal drive, and set my external drive to HDD mode instead of AUTO mode.


CPU: i5 4670K @ 4.5ghz
Mobo: Gigabyte Z87X-UD3H
RAM: 16GB
SSD: Samsung 830 128gb
GPU: Radeon HD 6950
 
Hmm thanks for that.

I disconnected the external HDD and found some interesting things:

Firstly windows boots in old times, however as soon as it goes past the BIOS screen I still see a cursor blinking in the top right (the external HDD is still connected via USB3 but power is off for it).

In BIOS when it is disconnected, it is fine.. but as soon as I power on the HDD the BIOS freezes and hangs, and then I powered it back off and BIOS went back to normal.

How can I go back and set the EXTERNAL HDD as AUTO instead of HDD. The priority for Boot is my SSD, and all other hard drives have been set to DISABLE.

someone told me disabling legacy USB would help???
 
update:

fixed the issue by disabling HOT PLUG...


lol windows loads so blazing fast; i get to the logon screen within 8 seconds man! :)


will edit once I boot with external turned on.

EDIT: yep everything is fine now. the only downside to powering with the external plugged in is that the POST screen, with bios info, is a little less responsive and takes about ten DELETE hits before it goes into BIOS. without external it is instant. does anyone know how to fix this?
 
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