Vista is hanging within boot-process

[Jens Nixdorf]

Hi all,

some months ago a good mid-class computer (Intel Q6600, 2 GB Ram) with XP
Pro was updated with Vista Ultimate. At the first time all seems to be
fine, but since some days Vista is hanging sometimes within the
boot-process between the CPU-recognition and the message, that the
harddrives are ok. Vista is staying at this point until the computer will
get a manual hard reset. This happens in approx. 1 of 10 times.

Boot-logging is switched on, but in the logfile c:\windows\ntbtlog.txt is
nothing of value. Also in the event viewer is nothing to see about problems
in the boot process.

I know that a clean install instead of an update from XP to Vista should be
preferred, but thats not my decision.

Where can i look further? I got the hint, that i could use a debugger, but i
think this is breaking a fly on a wheel. Or not?

thanks in advance, Jens

 

[Eric]

Is this during the pre-boot tests? (Has Vista even started loading during
this point?) Sounds to me like it is during the pre-boot tests as you are
saying it's before the message that the hard drives are okay. In which case
you won't get any way of finding out what is going on with a log of any
sort, because it's not passing BIOS tests which is what is causing it to
hang up. It can't log anything, because it isn't at the point where it told
to log. In which case also it isn't a Vista issue it sounds more like a
hardware issue in that sense. I may be mistaken so don't hold me to it, I
may be reading into it wrong, but if it is during the pre-boot sequences
then it isn't anything to do with the software, or the OS, it's a hardware
issue

 

[Jens Nixdorf]

Hi Eric,

thank you for your answer,

Eric schrubte am Donnerstag, 20. Dezember 2007 11:23:

Is this during the pre-boot tests?  (Has Vista even started loading during
this point?)  Sounds to me like it is during the pre-boot tests as you are
saying it's before the message that the hard drives are okay.

I think my posting was a bit misunderstandable. No, it doesnt hang during
the POST-messages or such thing. Vista has a switch to show ehich drivers
it loads during its boot-process, and this switch is on. So you can see
after the POST-screen a list of loaded drivers, than the CPU, and after
this normally the checkdisk-messages. All this you can see instead of
this "cylonic progressbar". And Vista hangs at the point before the
checkdisk-messages are shown, but after loading drivers and after vistas
(not BIOS') cpu-recognition

regards, Jens