My windows 7 is freezing on the starting windows screen right before the windows logo starts to form. I took the SSD out and tried it in my notebook and it booted normally, i tried it on the exact similar Mother board like the one it is freezing on and it booted normally, when i returned it back to the original Motherboard, it freezes again. I replaced the SATA 2.0 cable and disconnected all USB devices and it still won't pass the starting windows screen on that specific Motherboard. Is it possible that my BIOS might needs flashing?
Windows 7 freezes on starting windows screen.
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Yes.
Did you make any changes in your BIOS lately? If you can restore the defaults, give that a try.
If that didn't help, and the SSD works on a similar board just fine, then there is a problem with your current motherboard. If its a desktop, you might want to replace it, or return it if its under warranty. Of course, this is only if you can't resolve the issue yourself. Laptops are harder to repair, so you may have to send the entire unit in for repair or replacement. Don't forget to transfer your files!
Hope this helps.
Did you make any changes in your BIOS lately? If you can restore the defaults, give that a try.
If that didn't help, and the SSD works on a similar board just fine, then there is a problem with your current motherboard. If its a desktop, you might want to replace it, or return it if its under warranty. Of course, this is only if you can't resolve the issue yourself. Laptops are harder to repair, so you may have to send the entire unit in for repair or replacement. Don't forget to transfer your files!
Hope this helps.
i didn't make any changes to the BIOS recently, and restoring default didn't solve it either. It's a desktop and it was working perfectly until it restarted by itself. After the restart, it requested a startup repair or start normally, i tried the start normally and it froze at the starting windows screen, i did the startup repair and it still froze. Another thing; i tried a hard drive with windows 8 installed and it booted normally, than i tried one other hard drive and one SSD with windows 7, the mother board ( Sapphire pure patinum H61/H67) restarts automatically every time it gets to the starting windows screen. I have enough new spare mother boards, but i would really like to know why is it refusing to boot windows 7. I have 30 other Computers using the same board and they are all working fine with windows 7. I'm going to be adding another 50 Computers soon. I have never encountered such a problem before, that's why i need to know what's wrong exactly.
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When it freezes, whats the longest amount of time you've left it alone?
Quick Fix #1:
So lets break this down... SSD won't boot on Mobo1. SSD will boot on Mobo2 (Exact same model). Mobo1 will boot other drives just fine. And lastly, you have 30+ computers to work with. My thoughts would be to just permanently swap the Mobo of two computers here, and see if they can work well.
More troubleshooting ideas:
A: Try booting with a different SATA port. Looks like that mobo has 4 ports to choose from.
B: Disable/Stop any third party programs that may interrupt Windows Startup process. Use MSCONFIG to turn programs on or off. It could be a network issue, where a startup program like Skype (Bad example I know.) wants to access the network, but cannot find any network connection. So the computer hangs and waits.
C: Use Windows last known good configuration:
http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windows7/ss/last-known-good-configuration-windows-7.htm
D: It wouldn't hurt to do a few cleanup or scanning checks in Windows 7 on the SSD that freezes on startup. First get it to boot on another motherboard. Then:
D1. Goto My Computer and right-click the Local Disk (C: )
D2a. Under General tab, click the Disk Cleanup button, and run the cleanup process.
D2b. Under Tools tab, click the Check-now button, for an error-checking scan.
E: Uninstall any recent Windows Updates:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/remove-update#1TC=windows-7
F: Lastly, Reinstall Windows. - I would transfer the documents to a third drive and perform a fresh installation of Windows 7 over it. Don't transfer back the files yet, and see if it will bootup again on the original motherboard. Hopefully that would get rid of any startup issues or possibly missing or corrupt files/sectors.
Hope this helps.
Quick Fix #1:
So lets break this down... SSD won't boot on Mobo1. SSD will boot on Mobo2 (Exact same model). Mobo1 will boot other drives just fine. And lastly, you have 30+ computers to work with. My thoughts would be to just permanently swap the Mobo of two computers here, and see if they can work well.
More troubleshooting ideas:
A: Try booting with a different SATA port. Looks like that mobo has 4 ports to choose from.
B: Disable/Stop any third party programs that may interrupt Windows Startup process. Use MSCONFIG to turn programs on or off. It could be a network issue, where a startup program like Skype (Bad example I know.) wants to access the network, but cannot find any network connection. So the computer hangs and waits.
C: Use Windows last known good configuration:
http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windows7/ss/last-known-good-configuration-windows-7.htm
D: It wouldn't hurt to do a few cleanup or scanning checks in Windows 7 on the SSD that freezes on startup. First get it to boot on another motherboard. Then:
D1. Goto My Computer and right-click the Local Disk (C: )
D2a. Under General tab, click the Disk Cleanup button, and run the cleanup process.
D2b. Under Tools tab, click the Check-now button, for an error-checking scan.
E: Uninstall any recent Windows Updates:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/remove-update#1TC=windows-7
F: Lastly, Reinstall Windows. - I would transfer the documents to a third drive and perform a fresh installation of Windows 7 over it. Don't transfer back the files yet, and see if it will bootup again on the original motherboard. Hopefully that would get rid of any startup issues or possibly missing or corrupt files/sectors.
Hope this helps.
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Here at Tom's they have tons of help on SSDs used for Windows. Including optimizing Windows for an SSD, and more.
Check out these links under this topic:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/270102-32-useful-articles-part
okay, tried all that, still didn't work. the mobo boots windows 8 smoothly, but hangs on windows 7. i tried to flash the bios and got stuck on bios write protect. There isn't any feature in the bios menu that allows me to switch it off and i couldn't figure out which jumpers to jump. I was on a deadline and i was already falling back, so i changed the bios rom and ram from another mobo that got struck by a lightning. It worked, windows 7 is booting smoothly and properly now. thanks though.
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