Hi, I'm experiencing a issue that started about a month ago while troubleshooting another problem but not sure if related or not.
The PC upon startup will sit for 20-30 or even more minutes in "Starting Windows" and seems to be doing something but difficult to tell. Sometimes it will make it to the user login, other times it seems to lock up forcing a hard shutdown. I'm in safe mode now after a couple of attempts.
A couple recent events. My internet clock was not syncing so I used this forum to troubleshoot that (time windows service was missing from my pc). It is working better with interval set to an every hour frequency but not 100%. Often the service stops itself or has error while syncing for the time difference being too large? Anyway a manual update usually works.
Also recently I hooked up a new 1080p LED 23" monitor and am now running HDMI from the motherboard video. I couple of times when I noticed the PC lock up, the screen freezes and a static type pattern appears. I tried running of the other video outputs but have not had repeatable success (back on HDMI).
I had one error I had never seen just today where when I went to boot up the PC said it had an error reading the drive and side to press ctl-alt-del to restart, which I did. But this was something that has never occurred just after the bios initializes. Can the drive be having issues? I've scanned for errors a couple months back and plan to again.
It would be great to have some kind of diagnostic run to see if it can pinpoint to either a specific hardware issue, etc. The most frustrating this is why it sits for so long waiting to boot in "Starting Windows" and sometimes does and others does not.
Thank you for your advice.
The PC upon startup will sit for 20-30 or even more minutes in "Starting Windows" and seems to be doing something but difficult to tell. Sometimes it will make it to the user login, other times it seems to lock up forcing a hard shutdown. I'm in safe mode now after a couple of attempts.
A couple recent events. My internet clock was not syncing so I used this forum to troubleshoot that (time windows service was missing from my pc). It is working better with interval set to an every hour frequency but not 100%. Often the service stops itself or has error while syncing for the time difference being too large? Anyway a manual update usually works.
Also recently I hooked up a new 1080p LED 23" monitor and am now running HDMI from the motherboard video. I couple of times when I noticed the PC lock up, the screen freezes and a static type pattern appears. I tried running of the other video outputs but have not had repeatable success (back on HDMI).
I had one error I had never seen just today where when I went to boot up the PC said it had an error reading the drive and side to press ctl-alt-del to restart, which I did. But this was something that has never occurred just after the bios initializes. Can the drive be having issues? I've scanned for errors a couple months back and plan to again.
It would be great to have some kind of diagnostic run to see if it can pinpoint to either a specific hardware issue, etc. The most frustrating this is why it sits for so long waiting to boot in "Starting Windows" and sometimes does and others does not.
Thank you for your advice.