Vista blue screen before booting

[UnholyBUrger]

Before I start, no not a BSOD. When ever I boot my computer, my screen is a solid blue for about 3 minutes before loading my desktop. It started doing this after I didnt use it for about a month. Does anyone know why this could be happening?

Sorry if this is the wrong forum.

[slim142]

Degraded RAM?
Try leaving the Vista CD on the DVD drive and fix the MBR, repair your installation etc.

[UnholyBUrger]

Degraded RAM?
Try leaving the Vista CD on the DVD drive and fix the MBR, repair your installation etc.

repairing the MBR is just like clicking on an option in my OEM vista disk right? I dont jhave to make some kind of fancy boot file?

[dengyong]

Run disk check, reboot.
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[UnholyBUrger]

Run disk check, reboot.
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Thanks for the idea. I did it, but sadly I still get the blue screen.

[dengyong]

Before I start, no not a BSOD. When ever I boot my computer, my screen is a solid blue for about 3 minutes before loading my desktop. It started doing this after I didnt use it for about a month. Does anyone know why this could be happening?

Sorry if this is the wrong forum.

With the same monitor ?

Have you tried system restore ?

[hersounds]

enter safe mode, delete vga drivers,use ccleaner, o guru3d nvidia cleaner, reboot,and again enter safe mode,install last vga driver and reboot,if persist check the dvi/ vga pins cable conector.

[UnholyBUrger]

enter safe mode, delete vga drivers,use ccleaner, o guru3d nvidia cleaner, reboot,and again enter safe mode,install last vga driver and reboot,if persist check the dvi/ vga pins cable conector.
Do I have to go into safe mode to do this? I have never gone into safe mode when uninstalling video drivers before.

Note: It's a little embarrassing, but how do you go into safe mode again anyway? is it F9 at startup?

[clokker]

It's a little embarrassing, but how do you go into safe mode again anyway? is it F9 at startup?
It's F8.

[gillll]

what the bluescreen says ?

what's the stop msg ?

wait before almost reformating...

[UnholyBUrger]

what the bluescreen says ?

what's the stop msg ?

wait before almost reformating...

Nothing. It's a solid blue screen, nothing is on it.

[UnholyBUrger]

enter safe mode, delete vga drivers,use ccleaner, o guru3d nvidia cleaner, reboot,and again enter safe mode,install last vga driver and reboot,if persist check the dvi/ vga pins cable conector.

I did all that except checking the pins because I have changed monitors since I have had this problem and it happens on both. I still get the blue screen. However, when I entered safe mode I did not get the blue screen after the welcome screen, it loaded fine. I am not sure what that means but it's better than nothing

[hersounds]

well if in safe mode run fine and load fine...is 100% driver corruption, anyway in safe mode run WIN + R next msconfig.exe and in starup,delete all entries about vga drivers...but better if you uninstall the drivers ,clean the registry and install a new / other version.

[gillll]

there's a stop somthing on the bsod .

what is it ?

[3Z3VH]

Gillll, as he said, it is not a BSOD, nor a stop error. it is showing a blank blue-coloured desktop before it loads the user login screen.

Have you added a USB hard drive to this system recently ? Those tend to lengthen your boot times significantly if they are powered on before/with the PC.

At that point in the Windows boot sequence, it has loaded most of your drivers, including the video driver, already, so I doubt that is the issue. More likely, it is a driver for a less critical piece of hardware like the Network card, Wireless card, Bluetooth, Audio, etc. or it is a piece of software your machine loads on startup that it has to copy from disk into memory. What software have you loaded recently ? Can it be uninstalled as a test ? What if you unplug your computer from the network, or disable the wireless ? Does that speed it up ?

[UnholyBUrger]

Gillll, as he said, it is not a BSOD, nor a stop error. it is showing a blank blue-coloured desktop before it loads the user login screen.

Have you added a USB hard drive to this system recently ? Those tend to lengthen your boot times significantly if they are powered on before/with the PC.

At that point in the Windows boot sequence, it has loaded most of your drivers, including the video driver, already, so I doubt that is the issue. More likely, it is a driver for a less critical piece of hardware like the Network card, Wireless card, Bluetooth, Audio, etc. or it is a piece of software your machine loads on startup that it has to copy from disk into memory. What software have you loaded recently ? Can it be uninstalled as a test ? What if you unplug your computer from the network, or disable the wireless ? Does that speed it up ?
The weird thing is, it started doing this AFTER I didnt use it for awhile. I have no idea how this happened. It cant be a new software problem because it worked fine when I used it last, but after a month of not using it, the blue screen just comes up. The only explanation I can think of is driver corruption. I have already uninstalled my nvidia drivers and got the newest ones without any luck. I dont have bluetooth, or any kind of PCI card besides audio. I am not sure how to troubleshoot my drivers. Blarg, this could be anything

[3Z3VH]

Does the machine boot fine into Safe Mode ?

[UnholyBUrger]

Does the machine boot fine into Safe Mode ?

yes

[3Z3VH]

Then it is a driver or service that was installed on the machine that is causing the problem. My bet is it is a service that is the culprit because of the point in the boot sequence it stops at.

Once in Safe Mode, go to Start/Run and type msconfig and hit OK. Inside here you can see all the programs that are set to start up with your machine, including Services. Disable any third party services you see in there that have been recently installed and reboot, and see what happens.