Help me out please

Hi guys and gals,

I was involved in an accident three days back wherein the car I was travelling in hit a pedestrian and then ran off the road and rolled over on its side into a gutter after knocking a telephone post down. Me and my friend were sitting at the back while his driver was driving the car. It was a serious accident. I'm the only one who walked off with one very tiny scratch. Now coming to the problem.

My beloved G53 was with me in the same ill fated car and she suffered a (very) serious jolt. So bad that I thought that was it. But luckily for me. My computer was in its bag so it was kinda safe. No cracks. And everything was running fine until today when I noticed that at the Windows 7 boot up screen (just before the logon screen), the screen goes slightly crazy (like static at the lower quarter of the screen...you know....a few rows of dashes (I'm not sure what it is actually called-artifacts?)). It lasts for about one second and is noticeable. This is the first time it is happening. I don't know what the cause is though. Could it be that the violent jolt messed up my hard drive or something? I ran hdtune pro but it showed status as ok. Anybody has any idea? I'm not using a boot up editor software. I can reproduce it everytime (shutting down my laptop and switcing it on or even by restarting). It happens only in that screen. No where else. I did not install any software. Nor did i update any drivers (graphics or otherwise).

Call me paranoid but it is driving me nuts. Will a clean install help (I'm tired of reinstalling windows 7 for like the millionth time but I'm willing to give it a chance if nothing helps)?

Vipin

 

Try opening MSconfig - boot tab- and enable no boot GUI . This was one of the first tweaks I made to my machine.

 

I did run CCleaner (used both cleaner and the registry option to fix all issues) today. But this problem was there even before i ran ccleaner. Mebbe it's mild OCD or plain love or whatever but that one second irregularity right before (Yes. It happens one second before the screen blanks up for the logon screen while the starting windows text is displayed on the screen) the logon screen comes up is depressing.

 

Does it help in reducing boot up time? I read somewhere that it does but i dint notice any difference so i left it enabled. Will try it and update.

 

that is the original reason I did it (boot time) when I ran vista on an old dell. Now I just do it out of habit.