Bootloop issue developed yesterday after a forced shutdown after failing to resume from sleep mode, so I tried to reset the CMOS by removing the battery. That worked, but now different bootloop issue came up. Before it would bootloop before POSTs, and there was this constant beeping every few seconds, but now it loads upto the windows logo and then resets.
I have a dual boot system, Windows 7 on my C drive, and Windows Server 2012 on a different drive. Server 2012 boots up fine, Im using it right now to type this, but Windows 7 is the one with the issue, booting in safe mode shows it stalling on Aswrvrt.sys, which seems to be an Avast driver file.
Any ideas on how to fix this? I have a bootable Windows 7 Repair USB, and Hirens Live Boot USB, and can download any other required tools.
Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks
EDIT: I’ve already ran Chkdsk with the flags /f and /r and left it running overnight, windows reports that there are no problems.
EDIT 2: Attached FRST log.
hey and welcome to the avast forum i suggest you go to this guide, scroll down to the part i can’t boot my computer and attach a frst+addation logfrom there a malware expert will help you out
Thanks, I’ll try it and report back on the result.
Yes when the problem first cropped up i thought it was purely a BCD related issue, so I tried rebuilding it a couple of times to no avail. I couldn’t understand why the same process fixed the Server 2012 BCD but not the Windows 7 BCD, especially since the detailed report from Startup repair reported that the Windows 7 OS booted successfully. That’s when i thought to boot into safe mode and check where exactly the boot process stalled and saw that Avast driver as the last loaded file.
Ok so I ran the fixlist, the fixlog says everything went successfully, tried to boot into normal mode, still wont work. So i checked the startup drivers again through booting into safe mode, the last driver to appear at the bottom of the list is Classpnp.sys, though from what I gather that might not be the driver causing the problem, but rather the next driver in the list, which wouldn’t appear as the system is crashed at that point? Tried to get a bootlog but thats been unsuccessful.
I then booted into Startup repair and ran FRST again, I’ve attached that log to this post.
You mean the other drive that contains Windows Server 2012? Its installed on a separate drive to Windows 7, and yes, it does boot into it with no issues.
Ok could you go into BIOS and set the non booting drive to either IDE or SATA (i.e. change from what it currently is ) then see if that allows a boot. If not revert the settings
