Re: vista black screen hang

Hi,

Open an elevated command prompt, run "chkntfs /d" to clear the dirty bit that is causing the disk checks. If this does not work, then either a) you have a drive that is likely faulty, or b) a drive tool/utility of some sort is or was used on the system that is causing an issue (use of non-compliant drive tools has been shown to do this).

While I didn't mention third party drivers as a possible problem, issues with them represent probably 90% of all system crashes. I don't think, from the sounds of it, that this is your issue. If it were, there would be a blue screen and crash dump we could analyze, nothing you've stated thus far indicates that.

What you commonly see on forums is the result of the majority of them slurping posts to and from the same source, the Microsoft newsservers (which is where I am as opposed the vbulletin web forum you are engaged with). One person posts an issue and it shows up on hundreds of different web forums due to this behavior, making it appear that many more have the same problem when that is not at all the case. Another annoying habit of these forums is that users don't quote what they are responding to, something that makes it difficult for those trying to help as we need to review what's already been done. On average most helpers are engaged in dozens of simultaneous sessions.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
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Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"dima_ben" <dima_ben.3l85ne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:dima_ben.3l85ne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

That is exactly the case - this IS THE BUG(!) in Vista booloader because
it happens to millions of users, you can easily find it by searching
different forums - the same problem with vista black screen on booting
happens too many times!
Most of advicers (like you) suggest to "test and change hardware",
"reinstall drivers", etc, but in reality only 3-5% are real problems
with hardware (I think) and the rest of 95-97% - is THE mentioned BUG in
Vista bootloader!

Most of users too impatient to wait (or report it to microsoft), so
they are pressing [reset], claiming to support, etc. But if we start to
pressing [spacebar] key each 3 seconds just right after the black screen
appears we can see that Vista loaded as usual. Because ChkDsk utility
suggest to skip check disk operation by pressing any key - so by
pressing spacebar key we can skip all disk checks at startup and make
Vista loaded without "black screen delay".

Also - if left computer with black screen for 10-20 minutes we can see
that Vista passed all ChkDsk operations and loaded as usual.

Thus, as you are MVP, please register this bug (I hope you should know
"secret" page where users can register bugs for Vista)!

Bug consists of 2 things: 1st - first ChkDsk call does not displayed on
a screen, looks like problems with wrong screen position initialization,
2nd - it is completely unclear why Vista decided to check all my disks
every morning(?!).


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