Since the problem resurfaced after logging back on we had to assume something was making a change. After logging in and restarting it disappeared again! Odd? What happened to the logo?Īfter a bit of experimentation we found out that making any change to the boot entry, via BCDEDIT and other similar tools caused the logo to reappear. Upon next reboot the logo had disappeared again.Īfter logging in again I checked the “No GUI Boot” option and it was indeed cleared. After letting the disk check complete (it took about 20 mins) the system eventually booted and I was able to logon ok.
If it had been left for long enough it would have eventually arrived at the logon screen. It then became apparent the disk checker needed to run – the laptop had been actually booting after all, but the disk checker wasn’t visible. The next time the system rebooted the logo reappeared. I had to use a Windows 7 install disk and boot into the recovery tools and run the command There is plenty of debate on the Internet as to what this actually does and doesn’t do – I’m not going to get into that here – the end result was that clearing this made the boot animation return.Īt this point I couldn’t actually toggle that option since the system wasn’t booting. On the boot tab from MSCONFIG is a “No GUI Boot” option. Turns out there is an option that controls that! The screen was black apart from a series of coloured lines in the top left hand corner. On starting the laptop the usual Windows 7 boot animation was missing. Had a bit of weird problem this week I wanted to write down somewhere in case it happens again!Ī call came in from a client to say the laptop wouldn’t boot.
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