Windows 7 Failed to Boot

[NineLives]

For the second time, Windows 7 will start up, and will just hang for more than 10 minutes at the "Starting Windows" Splash screen. It normal takes about 30 to 50 seconds for W7 to boot but it just failed to.
I then hard powered it down and it booted up normally.

How can I view this in event viewer? Im looking through all the logs but there's nothing relevant to when I failed to boot.

Please help me find out where I can view info on the failure to boot in Event Viewer!
THANKS!!!

[Shadowmeph]

if you can boot into safe mode without any issues then it is most likely an application or driver problem.
So any new hard ware or software you have just installed I would check those. also go into ms config and uncheck everything that is in the start up and reboot if it reboots normally then it is something in there which you can isolate by going back into msconfig and either one at a time or a couple at a time recheck the startups and reboot until it has its problem. if you are not sure how to get into ms config just go to run and type in msconfig and it will load up.

also look in the event viewer windows logs and go through them look for any warnings ( which there is normally a few) and errors go through system files ( in the event viewer) . But I have a feeling that it is some software you have installed so look through all of the system viewer.

[NineLives]

Originally Posted by Shadowmeph

if you can boot into safe mode without any issues then it is most likely an application or driver problem.
So any new hard ware or software you have just installed I would check those. also go into ms config and uncheck everything that is in the start up and reboot if it reboots normally then it is something in there which you can isolate by going back into msconfig and either one at a time or a couple at a time recheck the startups and reboot until it has its problem. if you are not sure how to get into ms config just go to run and type in msconfig and it will load up.

also look in the event viewer windows logs and go through them look for any warnings ( which there is normally a few) and errors go through system files ( in the event viewer) . But I have a feeling that it is some software you have installed so look through all of the system viewer.

The only thing I have running on startup is my video card driver lol.

I was able to boot normally as I am here right now, its jsut weird. Its happened once before... so no biggie. Ill come back if it happens again!!!

[Shadowmeph]

maybe try a repair install