Boot logging in Vista

[Mark R]

My systems have had a problem since I built them, but I'm trying to stabilize them.

Essentially, if I shut down normally, the next reboot will fail - It will hang at the boot screen with the green progress bar after about 30 seconds. This happens every time, after a clean shutdown which is not followed by a cold boot (i.e. disconnecting mains power).

I've been trying to debug this by enabling boot logging - but the problem is the failed attempts don't get logged. No log is created for the failed boot attempt - instead the next successful boot is logged (even if boot logging is not enabled for that boot).

Any idea how I debug this, short of manually disabling drivers one by one?

System specs:
P5B-Deluxe
E6600
8800GTX
X-Fi

 

[cprince]

I'm thinking it's a hardware issue. How big is the power supply? Try restarting into memtest86 and see if you can complete the test.

 

[Mark R]

No evidence of any hardware problems - orthos, memtest86, etc. all run fine. PSU is a 550 W seasonic.

I have had a bad RAM stick, but this problem occurred before the RAM went bad, while it was bad, and after I removed the offending stick.

 

[cprince]

Are you using matching RAM sticks(same size and speed).? I had a problem where the machine would BSOD because of different RAM stick sizes.

 

[nova2]

have you tried removing the sound card and using a different video card?
i'd try that.

 

[flexy]

video driver?