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Black screen when Vista boots up

  • 18-05-2007 12:27pm
    #1
    Stephen P
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,891 ✭✭✭


    OS: Vista Home Premium

    I have a Western Digital My Book 250GB HDD. When I boot up the system there's a black screen for about 2 minutes right after the green progress bar. I read somewhere on a different forum that it's due to the WD HDD. Sure enough if I disconnect the HDD before boot up I don't get the black screen for 2 minutes. I went into the BIOS and Disabled "Boot from removable drives" but that didn't work. My C:\ is set to boot up first then the My Book drive.

    Anyone any suggestions as what I could do?


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  • #2
    8T8
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,757 ✭✭✭8T8


    Try running scandisk on the WD external drive & reboot after it's done to see if it still happens.

    Also are you using readyboost on anything attached to the computer ?

    Finally what make chipset is the motherboard ?


  • #3
    Stephen P
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,891 ✭✭✭Stephen P


    8T8 wrote:
    Try running scandisk on the WD external drive & reboot after it's done to see if it still happens.

    Also are you using readyboost on anything attached to the computer ?

    Finally what make chipset is the motherboard ?

    I ran scandisk, rebooted and the problem remains. The motherboard is Intel D945Psn


  • #4
    8T8
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,757 ✭✭✭8T8


    Well from Google I think there is some talk that it might be related to ReadyBoost are you using it at all on any device as if you were I'd try disabling that to see if anything changes.

    Try contacting Western Digital tech support directly via email and let them know the problem as they may have a fix, HD companies rarely release public firmware updates to their hardware. But it is possible they know of the problem you certainly have plenty of Google evidence to back you up and let them know it's not an isolated incident.


  • #5
    8T8
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,757 ✭✭✭8T8


    Readyboost is only enabled on flash based tech (USB flash, SDcard, CF etc) it wont be enabled for external HD's so no tab is normal.


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