I have a system here that had a bad power supply. Swapped that out and now it won't boot to windows any more, in safe mode or otherwise. It gets to a mouse cursor and idles. I've enabled the bootlog.nt but it doesn't write anything(I'm using a windows ultimate boot cd to check).

I wiped the hard drive and reinstalled. Windows comes up and works fine. I try to reboot and it immediately resumes hanging(well, idling) in the same place.

At this point I'm assuming some sort of hardware has been fried by the old power supply, but without safe mode I'd have to repeatedly reinstall, disable some hardware while windows is running, then reboot and cross my fingers. Is there any way to make the windows boot process more verbose or disable drivers from the UBCD4Windows?

1/14/2010 1:54:23 PM

Use memtest to check the memory. Use a linux live CD to rule out the non-HDD hardware. My bet is the motherboard.

1/14/2010 3:58:08 PM

I really hope this name catches on for this issue.

1/15/2010 11:14:35 AM

i hope it catches on fire

1/15/2010 11:23:31 AM

i don't think it'd boot at all if it were the motherboard (by motherboard i mean anything that's not a specific port on the mobo)

remove each stick of memory and test each one - put one in, see if it boots, but the next in, see if it boots...it could be it's bad memory or a bad memory slot, so check those...if it's only one stick and you need one to test with let me know, i might have some lying around

if that doesn't fix the problem, start by removing all components that aren't absolutely necessary (if it has onboard video and a video card, remove the video card and try just the onboard) and try to boot

if that doesn't fix the problem, go into the BIOS and try disabling any unnecessary peripherals (doubt this will do anything, but it's worth a shot)

1/15/2010 12:11:49 PM