Boot messages on screen missing...

Boot messages suddenly stopped showing up on screen during boot - these are the messages preceeded with the green [OK] and red [FAILED].
The equivalent shutdown messages still show on screen when shutting down. No change in mkinitcpio.conf or syslinux.cfg (syslinux bootloader). ....and there is no "splash" or "quiet" parameter being passed to kernel.
Missing messages most likely started after a system upgrade but not sure which package or when.
During boot I get the "Welcome to Archlinux" and some fsck messages, then the prompt for userid.
No problems with system after boot.....just not getting those system boot messages. Hate when stuff changes without knowing why.
I know about getting boot messages via journalctl, so please do not recommend.

Following is pacman.log from Aug 2014 to now. Appreciate the help.
[2014-08-02 10:27] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -Syu'
[2014-08-02 10:27] [PACMAN] synchronizing package lists
[2014-08-02 10:27] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade
[2014-08-02 10:28] [PACMAN] removed lzo2 (2.08-1)
[2014-08-02 10:28] [PACMAN] installed lzo (2.08-3)
[2014-08-02 10:28] [PACMAN] upgraded cairo (1.12.16-2 -> 1.12.16-3)
[2014-08-02 10:28] [PACMAN] upgraded libcups (1.7.4-1 -> 1.7.5-1)
[2014-08-02 10:28] [PACMAN] upgraded cups (1.7.4-1 -> 1.7.5-1)
[2014-08-02 10:28] [PACMAN] upgraded ffmpeg (1:2.3-1 -> 1:2.3.1-1)
[2014-08-02 10:28] [PACMAN] upgraded gettext (0.19.1-1 -> 0.19.2-1)
[2014-08-02 10:28] [PACMAN] upgraded tdb (1.2.12-1 -> 1.3.0-1)
[2014-08-02 10:28] [PACMAN] upgraded ldb (1.1.16-1 -> 1.1.17-1)
[2014-08-02 10:28] [PACMAN] upgraded libarchive (3.1.2-6 -> 3.1.2-8)
[2014-08-02 10:28] [PACMAN] upgraded libwbclient (4.1.9-1 -> 4.1.11-1)
[2014-08-02 10:28] [PACMAN] upgraded mkinitcpio (17-1 -> 18-1)
[2014-08-02 10:28] [PACMAN] upgraded parted (3.1-4 -> 3.2-1)
[2014-08-02 10:28] [PACMAN] upgraded python2-boto (2.31.1-1 -> 2.32.0-1)
[2014-08-02 10:28] [PACMAN] upgraded smbclient (4.1.9-1 -> 4.1.11-1)
[2014-08-02 10:28] [PACMAN] upgraded samba (4.1.9-1 -> 4.1.11-1)
[2014-08-02 10:28] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] Syslinux BIOS update successful
[2014-08-02 10:28] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]
[2014-08-02 10:28] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> For setting up Syslinux BIOS using the syslinux-install_update script follow
[2014-08-02 10:28] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Syslinux#Automatic_Install
[2014-08-02 10:28] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]
[2014-08-02 10:28] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> For setting up Syslinux EFI follow
[2014-08-02 10:28] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Syslinux#UEFI_Systems
[2014-08-02 10:28] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]
[2014-08-02 10:28] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> The syslinux-install_update script does not currently support EFI install
[2014-08-02 10:28] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]
[2014-08-02 10:28] [PACMAN] upgraded syslinux (6.03pre18-1 -> 6.03pre19-1)
[2014-08-02 10:28] [PACMAN] upgraded xorg-server-common (1.16.0-5 -> 1.16.0-6)
[2014-08-02 10:28] [PACMAN] upgraded xorg-server (1.16.0-5 -> 1.16.0-6)
[2014-08-02 10:28] [PACMAN] upgraded xorg-xrandr (1.4.2-1 -> 1.4.3-1)
[2014-08-02 10:28] Exited with code 0
[2014-08-06 02:23] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -Syu'
[2014-08-06 02:23] [PACMAN] synchronizing package lists
[2014-08-06 02:23] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade
[2014-08-06 02:25] [PACMAN] upgraded mesa (10.2.4-1 -> 10.2.5-1)
[2014-08-06 02:25] [PACMAN] upgraded mesa-libgl (10.2.4-1 -> 10.2.5-1)
[2014-08-06 02:25] [PACMAN] upgraded ati-dri (10.2.4-1 -> 10.2.5-1)
[2014-08-06 02:25] [PACMAN] installed pyqt5-common (5.3.1-1)
[2014-08-06 02:25] [PACMAN] installed python2-pyqt5 (5.3.1-1)
[2014-08-06 02:25] [PACMAN] installed qt5-svg (5.3.1-1)
[2014-08-06 02:25] [PACMAN] installed python2-chardet (2.2.1-2)
[2014-08-06 02:25] [PACMAN] installed python2-html5lib (0.999-4)
[2014-08-06 02:25] [PACMAN] upgraded calibre (1.40.0-1 -> 1.204.1-2)
[2014-08-06 02:25] [PACMAN] upgraded device-mapper (2.02.106-2 -> 2.02.108-1)
[2014-08-06 02:25] [PACMAN] upgraded dhcpcd (6.4.2-1 -> 6.4.3-1)
[2014-08-06 02:25] [PACMAN] upgraded libutil-linux (2.24.2-1 -> 2.25-3)
[2014-08-06 02:25] [PACMAN] upgraded e2fsprogs (1.42.10-1 -> 1.42.11-1)
[2014-08-06 02:25] [PACMAN] upgraded git (2.0.3-1 -> 2.0.4-1)
[2014-08-06 02:25] [PACMAN] upgraded lib32-mesa (10.2.4-1 -> 10.2.5-1)
[2014-08-06 02:25] [PACMAN] upgraded lib32-mesa-libgl (10.2.4-1 -> 10.2.5-1)
[2014-08-06 02:25] [PACMAN] upgraded libpeas (1.10.0-1 -> 1.10.1-1)
[2014-08-06 02:25] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] >>> Updating module dependencies. Please wait ...
[2014-08-06 02:25] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] >>> Generating initial ramdisk, using mkinitcpio. Please wait...
[2014-08-06 02:25] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset: 'default'
[2014-08-06 02:25] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux.img
[2014-08-06 02:25] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Starting build: 3.15.8-1-ARCH
[2014-08-06 02:25] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [base]
[2014-08-06 02:25] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [udev]
[2014-08-06 02:25] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [autodetect]
[2014-08-06 02:25] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [modconf]
[2014-08-06 02:25] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [block]
[2014-08-06 02:25] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [resume]
[2014-08-06 02:25] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [filesystems]
[2014-08-06 02:25] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [keyboard]
[2014-08-06 02:25] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [fsck]
[2014-08-06 02:25] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [shutdown]
[2014-08-06 02:25] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [usr]
[2014-08-06 02:25] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Generating module dependencies
[2014-08-06 02:25] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Creating gzip-compressed initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux.img
[2014-08-06 02:25] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Image generation successful
[2014-08-06 02:25] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset: 'fallback'
[2014-08-06 02:25] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img -S autodetect
[2014-08-06 02:25] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Starting build: 3.15.8-1-ARCH
[2014-08-06 02:25] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [base]
[2014-08-06 02:25] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [udev]
[2014-08-06 02:25] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [modconf]
[2014-08-06 02:25] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [block]
[2014-08-06 02:25] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: aic94xx
[2014-08-06 02:25] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: smsmdtv
[2014-08-06 02:25] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [resume]
[2014-08-06 02:25] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [filesystems]
[2014-08-06 02:25] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [keyboard]
[2014-08-06 02:25] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [fsck]
[2014-08-06 02:25] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [shutdown]
[2014-08-06 02:25] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [usr]
[2014-08-06 02:25] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Generating module dependencies
[2014-08-06 02:25] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Creating gzip-compressed initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img
[2014-08-06 02:25] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Image generation successful
[2014-08-06 02:25] [PACMAN] upgraded linux (3.15.7-1 -> 3.15.8-1)
[2014-08-06 02:25] [PACMAN] upgraded lvm2 (2.02.106-2 -> 2.02.108-1)
[2014-08-06 02:25] [PACMAN] upgraded python-setuptools (1:5.4.1-1 -> 1:5.4.2-1)
[2014-08-06 02:25] [PACMAN] upgraded python2-boto (2.32.0-1 -> 2.32.1-1)
[2014-08-06 02:25] [PACMAN] upgraded s-nail (14.7.4-1 -> 14.7.5-1)
[2014-08-06 02:25] [PACMAN] upgraded tdb (1.3.0-1 -> 1.3.0-2)
[2014-08-06 02:25] [PACMAN] upgraded traceroute (2.0.19-2 -> 2.0.20-1)
[2014-08-06 02:25] [PACMAN] upgraded util-linux (2.24.2-1 -> 2.25-3)
[2014-08-06 02:25] [PACMAN] upgraded virtualbox (4.3.14-2 -> 4.3.14-3)
[2014-08-06 02:25] [PACMAN] upgraded xorg-twm (1.0.8-2 -> 1.0.8-3)
[2014-08-06 02:25] [PACMAN] upgraded youtube-dl (2014.07.30-1 -> 2014.08.05-1)
[2014-08-06 02:25] Exited with code 0
[2014-08-07 09:40] Exited with code 0
[2014-08-07 09:40] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -R nss'
[2014-08-07 09:40] Exited with code 1
[2014-08-07 23:10] Exited with code 0
[2014-08-07 23:12] Exited with code 0
[2014-08-30 01:55] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -Sc'
[2014-08-30 01:56] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -Syuw'
[2014-08-30 01:56] [PACMAN] synchronizing package lists
[2014-08-30 01:56] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade
[2014-08-30 01:57] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -Syuw'
[2014-08-30 01:57] [PACMAN] synchronizing package lists
[2014-08-30 01:57] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade
[2014-08-30 09:30] Exited with code 130
[2014-08-30 09:31] Exited with code 0
[2014-08-30 09:52] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -Syu'
[2014-08-30 09:52] [PACMAN] synchronizing package lists
[2014-08-30 09:52] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade
[2014-08-30 09:58] [PACMAN] removed icedtea-web-java7 (1.5-1)
[2014-08-30 09:58] [PACMAN] removed libreoffice-en-US (4.2.5-1)
[2014-08-30 09:58] [PACMAN] removed libreoffice-common (4.2.5-1)
[2014-08-30 09:58] [PACMAN] removed libreoffice-calc (4.2.5-1)
[2014-08-30 09:58] [PACMAN] removed libreoffice-draw (4.2.5-1)
[2014-08-30 09:58] [PACMAN] removed libreoffice-impress (4.2.5-1)
[2014-08-30 09:58] [PACMAN] removed libreoffice-writer (4.2.5-1)
[2014-08-30 09:58] [PACMAN] upgraded openssl (1.0.1.h-1 -> 1.0.1.i-1)
[2014-08-30 09:58] [PACMAN] upgraded mariadb-clients (10.0.12-2 -> 10.0.13-1)
[2014-08-30 09:58] [PACMAN] upgraded mariadb (10.0.12-2 -> 10.0.13-1)
[2014-08-30 09:58] [PACMAN] upgraded akonadi (1.12.1-2 -> 1.13.0-1)
[2014-08-30 09:58] [PACMAN] upgraded bash (4.3.018-3 -> 4.3.024-1)
[2014-08-30 09:58] [PACMAN] upgraded kbd (2.0.1-1 -> 2.0.2-1)
[2014-08-30 09:58] [PACMAN] upgraded libgcrypt (1.6.1-1 -> 1.6.2-1)
[2014-08-30 09:58] [PACMAN] upgraded libsystemd (215-4 -> 216-1)
[2014-08-30 09:58] [PACMAN] upgraded systemd (215-4 -> 216-1)
[2014-08-30 09:58] [PACMAN] upgraded mesa (10.2.5-1 -> 10.2.6-1)
[2014-08-30 09:58] [PACMAN] upgraded mesa-libgl (10.2.5-1 -> 10.2.6-1)
[2014-08-30 09:58] [PACMAN] upgraded ati-dri (10.2.5-1 -> 10.2.6-1)
[2014-08-30 09:58] [PACMAN] upgraded avahi (0.6.31-12 -> 0.6.31-13)
[2014-08-30 09:58] [PACMAN] upgraded avr-gcc (4.9.0-2 -> 4.9.1-1)
[2014-08-30 09:58] [PACMAN] upgraded avr-libc (1.8.0-5 -> 1.8.1-1)
[2014-08-30 09:58] [PACMAN] upgraded krb5 (1.12.1-1 -> 1.12.2-1)
[2014-08-30 09:58] [PACMAN] upgraded kdelibs (4.13.3-2 -> 4.14.0-1)
[2014-08-30 09:58] [PACMAN] upgraded gnupg (2.0.25-1 -> 2.0.26-1)
[2014-08-30 09:58] [PACMAN] upgraded gpgme (1.5.0-1 -> 1.5.1-1)
[2014-08-30 09:58] [PACMAN] upgraded kdepimlibs (4.13.3-1 -> 4.14.0-1)
[2014-08-30 09:58] [PACMAN] upgraded poppler (0.26.3-1 -> 0.26.4-1)
[2014-08-30 09:58] [PACMAN] upgraded poppler-qt4 (0.26.3-1 -> 0.26.4-1)
[2014-08-30 09:58] [PACMAN] upgraded libtasn1 (4.0-1 -> 4.1-1)
[2014-08-30 09:58] [PACMAN] upgraded gnutls (3.3.6-1 -> 3.3.7-1)
[2014-08-30 09:58] [PACMAN] upgraded gsm (1.0.13-7 -> 1.0.13-8)
[2014-08-30 09:58] [PACMAN] upgraded libx264 (1:142.20140311-4 -> 1:142.20140311-6)
[2014-08-30 09:58] [PACMAN] upgraded ffmpeg (1:2.3.1-1 -> 1:2.3.3-1)
[2014-08-30 09:58] [PACMAN] upgraded kdegraphics-mobipocket (4.13.3-1 -> 4.14.0-1)
[2014-08-30 09:58] [PACMAN] upgraded kfilemetadata (4.13.3-1 -> 4.14.0-1)
[2014-08-30 09:58] [PACMAN] upgraded baloo (4.13.3-1 -> 4.14.0-1)
[2014-08-30 09:58] [PACMAN] upgraded bluez-libs (5.21-2 -> 5.22-2)
[2014-08-30 09:58] [PACMAN] upgraded bluez-utils (5.21-2 -> 5.22-2)
[2014-08-30 09:58] [PACMAN] upgraded imagemagick (6.8.9.6-1 -> 6.8.9.7-1)
[2014-08-30 09:58] [PACMAN] upgraded python2-lxml (3.3.5-1 -> 3.3.6-1)
[2014-08-30 09:58] [PACMAN] upgraded libwebp (0.4.0-2 -> 0.4.1-1)
[2014-08-30 09:58] [PACMAN] upgraded python2-pillow (2.5.1-1 -> 2.5.3-2)
[2014-08-30 09:58] [PACMAN] upgraded calibre (1.204.1-2 -> 2.1.0-1)
[2014-08-30 09:58] [PACMAN] upgraded cherrytree (0.33.4-2 -> 0.34.0-1)
[2014-08-30 09:58] [PACMAN] upgraded convertlit (1.8-6 -> 1.8-7)
[2014-08-30 09:58] [PACMAN] upgraded cracklib (2.9.0-2 -> 2.9.1-1)
[2014-08-30 09:58] [PACMAN] upgraded cups-filters (1.0.55-1 -> 1.0.58-1)
[2014-08-30 09:58] [PACMAN] upgraded device-mapper (2.02.108-1 -> 2.02.109-2)
[2014-08-30 09:58] [PACMAN] upgraded poppler-glib (0.26.3-1 -> 0.26.4-1)
[2014-08-30 09:58] [PACMAN] upgraded evince (3.12.1-1 -> 3.12.2-1)
[2014-08-30 09:58] [PACMAN] upgraded fakeroot (1.20-1 -> 1.20.1-1)
[2014-08-30 09:58] [PACMAN] upgraded flashplugin (11.2.202.394-1 -> 11.2.202.400-1)
[2014-08-30 09:58] [PACMAN] upgraded git (2.0.4-1 -> 2.1.0-1)
[2014-08-30 09:58] [PACMAN] upgraded glew (1.10.0-2 -> 1.11.0-1)
[2014-08-30 09:58] [PACMAN] upgraded gperf (3.0.4-4 -> 3.0.4-5)
[2014-08-30 09:58] [PACMAN] upgraded gtksourceview3 (3.12.2-1 -> 3.12.3-1)
[2014-08-30 09:58] [PACMAN] upgraded harfbuzz (0.9.32-1 -> 0.9.35-1)
[2014-08-30 09:58] [PACMAN] upgraded harfbuzz-icu (0.9.32-1 -> 0.9.35-1)
[2014-08-30 09:58] [ALPM] warning: /etc/profile.d/jre.sh saved as /etc/profile.d/jre.sh.pacorig
[2014-08-30 09:58] [ALPM] warning: /etc/profile.d/jre.csh saved as /etc/profile.d/jre.csh.pacorig
[2014-08-30 09:58] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] Installing multiple non-conflicting Java environments is now supported
[2014-08-30 09:58] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] Check the following wiki section for more info:
[2014-08-30 09:58] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Java
[2014-08-30 09:58] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] Please make sure JAVA_HOME is set to /usr/lib/jvm/java-default-runtime
[2014-08-30 09:58] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] If not, you may have to logout and login again to set it according to /etc/profile.d/jre.sh
[2014-08-30 09:58] [PACMAN] installed java-common (1-5)
[2014-08-30 09:59] [PACMAN] upgraded jre7-openjdk-headless (7.u65_2.5.1-3 -> 7.u65_2.5.2-1)
[2014-08-30 09:59] [PACMAN] upgraded jre7-openjdk (7.u65_2.5.1-3 -> 7.u65_2.5.2-1)
[2014-08-30 09:59] [PACMAN] installed icedtea-web (1.5.1-1)
[2014-08-30 09:59] [PACMAN] installed zita-alsa-pcmi (0.2.0-1)
[2014-08-30 09:59] [PACMAN] installed zita-resampler (1.3.0-2)
[2014-08-30 09:59] [PACMAN] upgraded jack (0.124.1-1 -> 0.124.1-3)
[2014-08-30 09:59] [PACMAN] upgraded kdebase-katepart (4.13.3-1 -> 4.14.0-1)
[2014-08-30 09:59] [PACMAN] upgraded oxygen-icons (4.13.3-1 -> 4.14.0-1)
[2014-08-30 09:59] [PACMAN] upgraded kdebase-runtime (4.13.3-1 -> 4.14.0-1)
[2014-08-30 09:59] [PACMAN] upgraded libkexiv2 (4.13.3-1 -> 4.14.0-1)
[2014-08-30 09:59] [PACMAN] upgraded kdegraphics-okular (4.13.3-1 -> 4.14.0-1)
[2014-08-30 09:59] [PACMAN] upgraded kdesdk-kate (4.13.3-1 -> 4.14.0-1)
[2014-08-30 09:59] [PACMAN] upgraded lib32-harfbuzz (0.9.32-1 -> 0.9.35-1)
[2014-08-30 09:59] [PACMAN] upgraded lib32-krb5 (1.12.1-1 -> 1.12.2-1)
[2014-08-30 09:59] [PACMAN] upgraded lib32-libcups (1.7.4-1 -> 1.7.5-1)
[2014-08-30 09:59] [PACMAN] upgraded lib32-libgcrypt (1.6.1-1 -> 1.6.2-1)
[2014-08-30 09:59] [PACMAN] upgraded xcb-proto (1.10-2 -> 1.11-1)
[2014-08-30 09:59] [PACMAN] upgraded libxcb (1.10-3 -> 1.11-1)
[2014-08-30 09:59] [PACMAN] upgraded lib32-libxcb (1.10-3 -> 1.11-1)
[2014-08-30 09:59] [PACMAN] upgraded lib32-openssl (1.0.1.h-1 -> 1.0.1.i-1)
[2014-08-30 09:59] [PACMAN] installed lib32-libssh2 (1.4.3-2)
[2014-08-30 09:59] [PACMAN] installed lib32-curl (7.37.1-1)
[2014-08-30 09:59] [PACMAN] upgraded lib32-systemd (215-1 -> 216-1)
[2014-08-30 09:59] [PACMAN] upgraded lib32-mesa (10.2.5-1 -> 10.2.6-1)
[2014-08-30 09:59] [PACMAN] upgraded lib32-mesa-libgl (10.2.5-1 -> 10.2.6-1)
[2014-08-30 09:59] [PACMAN] upgraded pango (1.36.5-1 -> 1.36.6-1)
[2014-08-30 09:59] [PACMAN] upgraded lib32-pango (1.36.5-1 -> 1.36.6-1)
[2014-08-30 09:59] [PACMAN] upgraded sqlite (3.8.5-1 -> 3.8.6-1)
[2014-08-30 09:59] [PACMAN] upgraded lib32-sqlite (3.8.5-1 -> 3.8.6-1)
[2014-08-30 09:59] [PACMAN] upgraded lib32-util-linux (2.24.2-1 -> 2.25-1)
[2014-08-30 09:59] [PACMAN] upgraded libbsd (0.6.0-2 -> 0.7.0-1)
[2014-08-30 09:59] [PACMAN] upgraded libedit (20140213_3.1-1 -> 20140620_3.1-1)
[2014-08-30 09:59] [PACMAN] upgraded menu-cache (0.5.1-2 -> 0.6.0-1)
[2014-08-30 09:59] [PACMAN] upgraded libfm (1.2.1-1 -> 1.2.2.1-1)
[2014-08-30 09:59] [PACMAN] upgraded libidn (1.28-2 -> 1.29-1)
[2014-08-30 09:59] [PACMAN] upgraded libkcddb (4.13.3-1 -> 4.14.0-1)
[2014-08-30 09:59] [PACMAN] upgraded libmm-glib (1.2.0-4 -> 1.2.0-5)
[2014-08-30 09:59] [PACMAN] upgraded libnl (3.2.24-1 -> 3.2.25-1)
[2014-08-30 09:59] [PACMAN] upgraded libpcap (1.5.3-1 -> 1.6.1-1)
[2014-08-30 09:59] [PACMAN] installed libreoffice-still-en-US (4.2.6-4)
[2014-08-30 09:59] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] Arch is now shipping LibreOffice in two branches:
[2014-08-30 09:59] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] * libreoffice-still: the maintenance branch you are using right now
[2014-08-30 09:59] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] * libreoffice-fresh: the new fresh release branch offering latest feature additions
[2014-08-30 09:59] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] If you want switch to the "fresh" branch run
[2014-08-30 09:59] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] pacman -S libreoffice-fresh
[2014-08-30 09:59] [PACMAN] installed libreoffice-still-common (4.2.6-4)
[2014-08-30 09:59] [PACMAN] installed libreoffice-still-calc (4.2.6-4)
[2014-08-30 09:59] [PACMAN] installed libreoffice-still-draw (4.2.6-4)
[2014-08-30 09:59] [PACMAN] installed libreoffice-still-impress (4.2.6-4)
[2014-08-30 09:59] [PACMAN] installed libreoffice-still-writer (4.2.6-4)
[2014-08-30 09:59] [PACMAN] upgraded libunrar (1:5.1.6-1 -> 1:5.1.7-1)
[2014-08-30 09:59] [PACMAN] upgraded libwacom (0.9-1 -> 0.10-1)
[2014-08-30 09:59] [PACMAN] upgraded libxkbcommon (0.4.2-1 -> 0.4.3-1)
[2014-08-30 09:59] [PACMAN] upgraded libxkbcommon-x11 (0.4.2-1 -> 0.4.3-1)
[2014-08-30 09:59] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] >>> Updating module dependencies. Please wait ...
[2014-08-30 09:59] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] >>> Generating initial ramdisk, using mkinitcpio. Please wait...
[2014-08-30 09:59] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset: 'default'
[2014-08-30 09:59] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux.img
[2014-08-30 09:59] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Starting build: 3.16.1-1-ARCH
[2014-08-30 09:59] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [base]
[2014-08-30 09:59] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [udev]
[2014-08-30 09:59] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [autodetect]
[2014-08-30 09:59] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [modconf]
[2014-08-30 09:59] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [block]
[2014-08-30 09:59] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [resume]
[2014-08-30 09:59] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [filesystems]
[2014-08-30 09:59] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [keyboard]
[2014-08-30 09:59] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [fsck]
[2014-08-30 09:59] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [shutdown]
[2014-08-30 09:59] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [usr]
[2014-08-30 09:59] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Generating module dependencies
[2014-08-30 09:59] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Creating gzip-compressed initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux.img
[2014-08-30 09:59] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Image generation successful
[2014-08-30 09:59] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset: 'fallback'
[2014-08-30 09:59] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img -S autodetect
[2014-08-30 09:59] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Starting build: 3.16.1-1-ARCH
[2014-08-30 09:59] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [base]
[2014-08-30 09:59] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [udev]
[2014-08-30 09:59] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [modconf]
[2014-08-30 09:59] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [block]
[2014-08-30 09:59] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: aic94xx
[2014-08-30 10:00] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: smsmdtv
[2014-08-30 10:00] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [resume]
[2014-08-30 10:00] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [filesystems]
[2014-08-30 10:00] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [keyboard]
[2014-08-30 10:00] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [fsck]
[2014-08-30 10:00] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [shutdown]
[2014-08-30 10:00] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [usr]
[2014-08-30 10:00] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Generating module dependencies
[2014-08-30 10:00] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Creating gzip-compressed initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img
[2014-08-30 10:00] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Image generation successful
[2014-08-30 10:00] [PACMAN] upgraded linux (3.15.8-1 -> 3.16.1-1)
[2014-08-30 10:00] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] :: lirc.service and lircm.service have been replaced
[2014-08-30 10:00] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] by the upstream unit files lircd.service and
[2014-08-30 10:00] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] lircmd.service.
[2014-08-30 10:00] [PACMAN] upgraded lirc-utils (1:0.9.0-75 -> 1:0.9.1.a-3)
[2014-08-30 10:00] [PACMAN] installed thin-provisioning-tools (0.3.2-1)
[2014-08-30 10:00] [PACMAN] upgraded lvm2 (2.02.108-1 -> 2.02.109-2)
[2014-08-30 10:00] [PACMAN] upgraded man-pages (3.70-1 -> 3.71-1)
[2014-08-30 10:00] [PACMAN] upgraded mencoder (37224-1 -> 37224-2)
[2014-08-30 10:00] [PACMAN] upgraded mesa-demos (8.2.0-1 -> 8.2.0-3)
[2014-08-30 10:00] [PACMAN] upgraded mplayer (37224-1 -> 37224-2)
[2014-08-30 10:00] [PACMAN] upgraded openresolv (3.5.6-1 -> 3.5.7-1)
[2014-08-30 10:00] [PACMAN] upgraded netctl (1.8-1 -> 1.9-1)
[2014-08-30 10:00] [PACMAN] upgraded nmap (6.46-1 -> 6.47-2)
[2014-08-30 10:00] [PACMAN] upgraded ntp (4.2.7.p446-1 -> 4.2.7.p465-1)
[2014-08-30 10:00] [PACMAN] upgraded openal (1.15.1-2 -> 1.16.0-1)
[2014-08-30 10:00] [ALPM] warning: /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist installed as /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.pacnew
[2014-08-30 10:00] [PACMAN] upgraded pacman-mirrorlist (20140706-1 -> 20140823-1)
[2014-08-30 10:00] [PACMAN] upgraded pcmanfm (1.2.1-1 -> 1.2.2-1)
[2014-08-30 10:00] [PACMAN] installed perl-xml-namespacesupport (1.11-3)
[2014-08-30 10:00] [PACMAN] installed perl-xml-sax-base (1.08-3)
[2014-08-30 10:00] [PACMAN] installed perl-xml-sax (0.99-4)
[2014-08-30 10:00] [PACMAN] installed perl-xml-sax-expat (0.51-2)
[2014-08-30 10:00] [PACMAN] upgraded perl-xml-simple (2.20-2 -> 2.20-3)
[2014-08-30 10:00] [PACMAN] upgraded php (5.5.15-1 -> 5.5.16-2)
[2014-08-30 10:00] [PACMAN] upgraded poppler-data (0.4.6-2 -> 0.4.7-1)
[2014-08-30 10:00] [PACMAN] upgraded python-setuptools (1:5.4.2-1 -> 1:5.7-1)
[2014-08-30 10:00] [PACMAN] upgraded python2-paramiko (1.14.0-1 -> 1.14.1-1)
[2014-08-30 10:00] [PACMAN] upgraded r8168 (8.038.00-9 -> 8.038.00-10)
[2014-08-30 10:00] [PACMAN] upgraded reflector (2014-4 -> 2014.8-1)
[2014-08-30 10:00] [PACMAN] upgraded s-nail (14.7.5-1 -> 14.7.6-1)
[2014-08-30 10:00] [PACMAN] upgraded strace (4.8-1 -> 4.9-1)
[2014-08-30 10:00] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Make sure you have ForwardToSyslog=yes in /etc/systemd/journald.conf
[2014-08-30 10:00] [PACMAN] upgraded syslog-ng (3.5.5-1 -> 3.5.6-1)
[2014-08-30 10:00] [PACMAN] upgraded systemd-sysvcompat (215-4 -> 216-1)
[2014-08-30 10:00] [PACMAN] upgraded tcl (8.6.1-1 -> 8.6.2-1)
[2014-08-30 10:00] [PACMAN] upgraded tcpdump (4.5.1-1 -> 4.6.1-1)
[2014-08-30 10:00] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] You must install one of tesseract-data-* packages or whole tesseract-data group
[2014-08-30 10:00] [PACMAN] upgraded tesseract (3.02.02-4 -> 3.03rc1-1)
[2014-08-30 10:00] [PACMAN] upgraded tesseract-data-eng (3.02.02-4 -> 3.02.02-5)
[2014-08-30 10:00] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] >>> texlive: updating the filename database...
[2014-08-30 10:00] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] warning: kpathsea: configuration file texmf.cnf not found in these directories: /usr/bin:/usr/bin/share/texmf-local/web2c:/usr/bin/share/texmf-dist/web2c:/usr/bin/share/texmf/web2c:/usr/bin/texmf-local/web2c:/usr/bin/texmf-dist/web2c:/usr/bin/texmf/web2c:/usr:/usr/share/texmf-local/web2c:/usr/share/texmf-dist/web2c:/usr/share/texmf/web2c:/usr/texmf-local/web2c:/usr/texmf-dist/web2c:/usr/texmf/web2c://texmf-local/web2c:/://share/texmf-local/web2c://share/texmf-dist/web2c://share/texmf/web2c://texmf-local/web2c://texmf-dist/web2c://texmf/web2c.
[2014-08-30 10:00] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] mktexlsr: Done.
[2014-08-30 10:00] [PACMAN] upgraded texlive-bin (2013.30973-10 -> 2014.34260-1)
[2014-08-30 10:00] [PACMAN] upgraded tk (8.6.1-1 -> 8.6.2-1)
[2014-08-30 10:00] [PACMAN] upgraded tzdata (2014e-1 -> 2014f-1)
[2014-08-30 10:00] [PACMAN] upgraded unrar (1:5.1.6-1 -> 1:5.1.7-1)
[2014-08-30 10:00] [PACMAN] upgraded vim-runtime (7.4.383-1 -> 7.4.410-1)
[2014-08-30 10:00] [PACMAN] installed libyaml (0.1.6-1)
[2014-08-30 10:00] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] The default location of gem installs is $HOME/.gem/ruby
[2014-08-30 10:00] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] Add the following line to your PATH if you plan to install using gem
[2014-08-30 10:00] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] $(ruby -rubygems -e "puts Gem.user_dir")/bin
[2014-08-30 10:00] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] If you want to install to the system wide location, you must either:
[2014-08-30 10:00] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] edit /etc/gemrc or run gem with the --no-user-install flag.
[2014-08-30 10:00] [PACMAN] installed ruby (2.1.2-1)
[2014-08-30 10:00] [PACMAN] upgraded vim (7.4.383-1 -> 7.4.410-1)
[2014-08-30 10:00] [PACMAN] upgraded virtualbox-guest-modules (4.3.14-3 -> 4.3.14-5)
[2014-08-30 10:00] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] In order to use the new version, reload all virtualbox modules manually.
[2014-08-30 10:00] [PACMAN] upgraded virtualbox-host-modules (4.3.14-3 -> 4.3.14-5)
[2014-08-30 10:00] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] Wordpress is in /usr/share/webapps now
[2014-08-30 10:00] [PACMAN] upgraded wordpress (3.9.1-1 -> 3.9.2-1)
[2014-08-30 10:00] [PACMAN] upgraded x264 (1:142.20140311-4 -> 1:142.20140311-6)
[2014-08-30 10:01] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] To autostart xbmc standalone read: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xbmc#Autostarting_at_boot
[2014-08-30 10:01] [PACMAN] upgraded xbmc (13.1-4 -> 13.2-2)
[2014-08-30 10:01] [PACMAN] upgraded xf86-input-mouse (1.9.0-3 -> 1.9.1-1)
[2014-08-30 10:01] [PACMAN] upgraded xfsprogs (3.2.0-1 -> 3.2.1-1)
[2014-08-30 10:01] [PACMAN] upgraded xorg-xinit (1.3.3-3 -> 1.3.3-4)
[2014-08-30 10:01] [PACMAN] upgraded youtube-dl (2014.08.05-1 -> 2014.08.29-1)
[2014-08-30 10:01] Exited with code 0
[2014-08-30 10:08] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -Syu'
[2014-08-30 10:08] [PACMAN] synchronizing package lists
[2014-08-30 10:08] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade
[2014-08-30 10:08] [PACMAN] upgraded icedtea-web (1.5.1-1 -> 1.5.1-2)
[2014-08-30 10:08] Exited with code 0
[2014-08-30 10:09] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -Syu'
[2014-08-30 10:09] [PACMAN] synchronizing package lists
[2014-08-30 10:09] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade
[2014-08-30 10:09] Exited with code 0
[2014-08-30 18:15] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -Syu'
[2014-08-30 18:15] [PACMAN] synchronizing package lists
[2014-08-30 18:15] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade
[2014-08-31 02:07] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -Syu'
[2014-08-31 02:07] [PACMAN] synchronizing package lists
[2014-08-31 02:07] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade
[2014-08-31 02:07] Exited with code 0
[2014-09-03 00:45] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -Syu'
[2014-09-03 00:45] [PACMAN] synchronizing package lists
[2014-09-03 00:45] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade
[2014-09-03 00:48] [PACMAN] upgraded libsystemd (216-1 -> 216-3)
[2014-09-03 00:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] :: Coredumps are handled by systemd by default. Collection behavior can be
[2014-09-03 00:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] tuned in /etc/systemd/coredump.conf.
[2014-09-03 00:48] [PACMAN] upgraded systemd (216-1 -> 216-3)
[2014-09-03 00:48] [PACMAN] upgraded device-mapper (2.02.109-2 -> 2.02.111-1)
[2014-09-03 00:48] [PACMAN] upgraded cryptsetup (1.6.5-2 -> 1.6.6-1)
[2014-09-03 00:48] [PACMAN] upgraded firefox (31.0-1 -> 32.0-1)
[2014-09-03 00:48] [PACMAN] upgraded gstreamer (1.4.0-1 -> 1.4.1-1)
[2014-09-03 00:48] [PACMAN] upgraded gst-plugins-base-libs (1.4.0-1 -> 1.4.1-1)
[2014-09-03 00:48] [PACMAN] upgraded gst-plugins-base (1.4.0-1 -> 1.4.1-1)
[2014-09-03 00:48] [PACMAN] upgraded icedtea-web (1.5.1-2 -> 1.5.1-3)
[2014-09-03 00:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] Installing multiple non-conflicting Java environments is now supported
[2014-09-03 00:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] Check the following wiki section for more info:
[2014-09-03 00:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Java
[2014-09-03 00:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] Please make sure JAVA_HOME is set to /usr/lib/jvm/default
[2014-09-03 00:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] If not, you may have to logout and login again to set it according to /etc/profile.d/jre.sh
[2014-09-03 00:48] [PACMAN] upgraded java-common (1-5 -> 1-6)
[2014-09-03 00:48] [PACMAN] upgraded kdebase-katepart (4.14.0-1 -> 4.14.0-2)
[2014-09-03 00:48] [PACMAN] upgraded kdesdk-kate (4.14.0-1 -> 4.14.0-2)
[2014-09-03 00:48] [PACMAN] upgraded libnm-glib (0.9.10.0-2 -> 0.9.10.0-4)
[2014-09-03 00:48] [PACMAN] upgraded libtar (1.2.20-1 -> 1.2.20-2)
[2014-09-03 00:48] [PACMAN] upgraded linux-firmware (20140603.a4f3bc0-1 -> 20140828.13eb208-1)
[2014-09-03 00:48] [PACMAN] upgraded lvm2 (2.02.109-2 -> 2.02.111-1)
[2014-09-03 00:48] [PACMAN] upgraded minidlna (1.1.3-2 -> 1.1.4-1)
[2014-09-03 00:48] [PACMAN] upgraded networkmanager (0.9.10.0-2 -> 0.9.10.0-4)
[2014-09-03 00:48] [PACMAN] upgraded openslp (1.2.1-7 -> 2.0.0-1)
[2014-09-03 00:48] [ALPM] warning: /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist installed as /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.pacnew
[2014-09-03 00:48] [PACMAN] upgraded pacman-mirrorlist (20140823-1 -> 20140901-1)
[2014-09-03 00:48] [PACMAN] upgraded ppp (2.4.6-2 -> 2.4.7-1)
[2014-09-03 00:48] [PACMAN] upgraded pygobject2-devel (2.28.6-10 -> 2.28.6-11)
[2014-09-03 00:48] [PACMAN] upgraded python2-gobject2 (2.28.6-10 -> 2.28.6-11)
[2014-09-03 00:48] [PACMAN] upgraded python2-pyenchant (1.6.5-3 -> 1.6.6-1)
[2014-09-03 00:48] [PACMAN] upgraded systemd-sysvcompat (216-1 -> 216-3)
[2014-09-03 00:48] [PACMAN] upgraded thunderbird (31.0-1 -> 31.1.0-1)
[2014-09-03 00:48] [PACMAN] upgraded virtualbox (4.3.14-3 -> 4.3.14-4)
[2014-09-03 00:48] [PACMAN] upgraded webkitgtk2 (2.4.4-1 -> 2.4.5-1)
[2014-09-03 00:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] To autostart xbmc standalone read: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xbmc#Autostarting_at_boot
[2014-09-03 00:48] [PACMAN] upgraded xbmc (13.2-2 -> 13.2-3)
[2014-09-03 00:48] [PACMAN] upgraded youtube-dl (2014.08.29-1 -> 2014.09.01.2-1)
[2014-09-03 00:48] Exited with code 0
[2014-09-03 08:23] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -S mythes-en'
[2014-09-03 08:24] [PACMAN] installed mythes-en (20060306-3)
[2014-09-03 08:24] Exited with code 0
[2014-09-03 08:25] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -S hyphen-en'
[2014-09-03 08:25] [PACMAN] installed hyphen-en (2.8.7-2)
[2014-09-03 08:25] Exited with code 0
[2014-09-04 23:07] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -Syu'
[2014-09-04 23:07] [PACMAN] synchronizing package lists
[2014-09-04 23:07] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade
[2014-09-04 23:07] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] Installing multiple non-conflicting Java environments is now supported
[2014-09-04 23:07] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] Check the following wiki section for more info:
[2014-09-04 23:07] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Java
[2014-09-04 23:07] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] Please make sure JAVA_HOME is set to /usr/lib/jvm/default
[2014-09-04 23:07] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] If not, you may have to logout and login again to set it according to /etc/profile.d/jre.sh
[2014-09-04 23:07] [PACMAN] upgraded java-common (1-6 -> 1-7)
[2014-09-04 23:07] [PACMAN] upgraded libmediainfo (0.7.69-1 -> 0.7.70-1)
[2014-09-04 23:07] [PACMAN] upgraded mediainfo (0.7.69-1 -> 0.7.70-1)
[2014-09-04 23:07] [PACMAN] upgraded tcpdump (4.6.1-1 -> 4.6.2-1)
[2014-09-04 23:07] [PACMAN] upgraded youtube-dl (2014.09.01.2-1 -> 2014.09.04.3-1)
[2014-09-04 23:07] Exited with code 0

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After reading MANY posts about this in various forums, a common theme was removing hardware. I tried that, and as OP had done, at one point I removed everything including cables from MB to front panel USB ports.
What worked was plugging in the old HDD I had cloned from a couple days ago. Yes, this fixed a booting problem at the POST phase. And I was able duplicate the works/doesn't work circumstances repeatedly after that.
If you haven't solved your problem (it's been a month), I would try a different HDD or putting a bootable DVD or attaching a bootable USB drive (of anything). SOMETHING bootable for a confused boot loader to find (I suspect the boot loader on your HDD got corrupted when Win8.1 didn't install completely).
My setup was a Compaq Vision CQ2723w with Win7 and an EFI boot system. Part of the boot loader resides in NVRAM (presumably on the MB). Things worked fine until I got done setting everything up (including booting from F9 boot menu very often) and removed the thumb drive with a bootable Win7 Install on it and rebooted. Based on what I saw later (bcdedit /enum firmware), there are many duplicate boot manager and USB HARD DISK entries. There is even an entry from the Acronis loader used during disk cloning ... and neither disk was plugged in at the time. Hence my belief that boot loader stuff is stored on the MB. (Microsoft Tech blog talked about the firmware version, but didn't mention physical location).
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I still have multiple Boot Managers listed in the F9 Boot Menu. "bcdedit /enum firmware" still shows a display order with four duplicates for <bootmgr> and six of the GUID associated with USB HARD DRIVE. BUT THE SYSTEM BOOTS!!!!
Now, I just have make sure bootable USB drives do not come within 10 feet (and I'm hanging on to the original 500 MB Seagate that "fixes" the problem when its connected.
Hope this helps you or someone/somewhere/sometime to solve their problem or get one step closer to understanding how all this booting crap really works (or doesn't).

Intel iMac will not boot past gray screen

Intel iMac will not boot past gray screen
my system:
new (month old) 24" intel imac, 2.8 ghz, 4 gb ram.
running: leopard (upgraded from tiger, which was pre-installed at purchase), installed 10.5.1 update right before this huge problem occurred.
install discs on-hand: two-disc tiget set, single leopard upgrade disc.
what led to this:
i wanted to install windows using bootcamp on a 50 gb partition.
at this point i was running leopard 10.5
i followed all bootcamp instructions, printing out the guide, as well. once i got into the windows setup, i was prompted to choose a partition to install windows. unlike the bootcamp guide, which showed three partitions, one clearly labeled "bootcamp", i saw only one partition. not wanting to risk writing over my mac partition, i quit the setup and rebooted the mac os. after some googling around, i looked for firmware updates (didn't need any), and then software updates. i decided to try updating to 10.5.1.
i then ran through boot camp again, deleting my previous windows partition, creating a new one, and moving forward as before. once again, i was only shown one partition to choose from in the windows setup. i exited the setup again to reboot through the mac os, but this time, i was only given a blank gray screen.
here's what i have tried so far:
booting from a CD, holding down the C or D keys: no response (in fact, i have to restart the computer holding down the mouse button to be able to eject the CD)
booting with option key held down: gray screen
booting with option key held down with external bootable firewire drive attached: the firewire drive appears as a boot icon, and i can click on it within a five second window, but then the screen freezes after that time period, and nothing changes
booting into target mode while attached to another mac: gray screen (no firewire icon, and drive never shows up on other mac)
resetting NVRAM: i'm able to hear the boot chimes, but no difference in performance. gray screen every time
Safe boot: nothing but a gray screen
Verbose mode: gray screen
Single user mode: gray screen
Single user mode with firewire drive attached: occasionally (not every time), i am able to get the white on black terminal to show up. from here, i'm able to run fsck, but it appears to only be checking the firewire drive. i have tried several times to boot from here, and once it took me to a blue screen with movable arrow cursor, but it never went beyond this.
is there anything else left to try before taking it to apple?
any help would be greatly appreciated.
thanks,
Casey Burns
Casey Burns Illustration and Design
http://CaseyBurns.com

I'd call Apple support at this point. You'll need
to put this issue on the record.
Call U.S. iPod and Mac technical support: 1-800-APL-CARE (1-800-275-2273)
The wait may be long for an agent to come on the line
so expect that and have some other stuff to do in the meantime.
If you have the applecare protection plan, I'd ask about "onsite"
service.
I like your work ! Good luck !
Slim
Message was edited by: slimpikkunz

[Solved] [Xorg+KMS+Intel] Can't see login console / boot messages!

Hi,
My problem is that using an Intel video card (with KMS) after latest Xorg 1.8 update, I can't see boot messagges and the login console anymore.
I've just noticed that after last Xorg update I can't access anymore to runlevel 3 on boot.
I've got an Intel video card so KMS is enabled by default (and mandatory).
I always used SLiM as a display manager, configured through /etc/inittab to go to runlevel 5 on boot:
# /etc/inittab
# Runlevels:
# 0 Halt
# 1(S) Single-user
# 2 Not used
# 3 Multi-user
# 4 Not used
# 5 X11
# 6 Reboot
## Only one of the following two lines can be uncommented!
# Boot to console
#id:3:initdefault:
# Boot to X11
id:5:initdefault:
rc::sysinit:/etc/rc.sysinit
rs:S1:wait:/etc/rc.single
rm:2345:wait:/etc/rc.multi
rh:06:wait:/etc/rc.shutdown
su:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin -p
# -8 options fixes umlauts problem on login
c1:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty1 linux
c2:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty2 linux
c3:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty3 linux
c4:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty4 linux
c5:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty5 linux
c6:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty6 linux
# Hypervisor Virtual Console for Xen and KVM
#h0:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 hvc0 linux
ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now
# Example lines for starting a login manager
#x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/xdm -nodaemon
#x:5:respawn:/usr/sbin/gdm -nodaemon
#x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/kdm -nodaemon
x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/slim >& /dev/null
To enable runlevel 3 at boot, I commented the id:5:initdefault: and the x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/slim >& /dev/null lines and uncommented id:3:initdefault:.
Now, during boot, the last thing I see is Loading UDev modules..., then the screen becomes dark gray and I can't see any other boot messages (actually this appened also before, after xorg update).
The problem is that before slim started but now I can't see any login console.
I also figured out that typing my username, password and then startx, starts X normally, so the problem is just that I can't see the tty console anymore.
Once I am in X I can switch to ttys normally.
What can I do?
I just wanted to get rid of slim and start X automatically after console login but I can't see the console login!
I hope to have been clear enough, thanks for your help!
Last edited by rent0n (2010-07-04 11:36:38)

rent0n wrote:
Well, it seems I spoke too early. It doesn't work as expected at every startup, sometimes I still have the black screen.
Now I'm trying with:
video=SVIDEO-1:d
that seems to work, but I just tested it one time and I'm starting to think that screen blanking happens randomly...
Any hint is more than welcomed.
After a few reboots, I can confirm this workaround seems to work.
This is weird indeed as I don't have any SVIDEO-1 interface listed by xrandr -q, but still.
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1280 x 800, maximum 8192 x 8192
VGA1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
LVDS1 connected 1280x800+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 331mm x 207mm
1280x800 60.0*+
1024x768 60.0
800x600 60.3 56.2
640x480 59.9
TV1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
The only problem is that now boot lasts a lot of time and, between UDev modules loading and disks checking, I have to wait for at least 30 seconds with a black screen and a central white dash flashing.
Anyone experiencing the same thing?

Hp 8560w booting into black screen, seems to be booting without display

Hi,
Ive got this elitebook 8650w from a friend who asked me to help him try to get it to run.
First thing noticable that something was wrong with this machine is when it started shutting down/rebooting randomly, i suspected overheating since it hadnt been cleaned and doing these shutdowns while it was running 3d games.
I told my friend he had to get it cleaned or it could sustain damage.
The next day the system started to reboot right after it completed windows logon, getting into a loop.
I suspected the temprature failsafe was doing this, because after the system did one cold start,it would boot to windows,reboot on its own and then wouldnt get through the boot process alltogether and just showed a black screen with the cooling fan running at top speed, capslock blinking.
It wasnt even showing the hp bios startup screen anymore.
I tried hooking up a monitor to the external vga, but the monitor goes into standy and remains black.
I know it did boot onto windows eventhough it was showing a blackscreen because i could type in the logon password, wait a bit and then shutdown the system with pressing alt-f4, enter.
clearly the system boots but just the display isnt working. but it isnt giving off any beeps or showing anything on boot.
So i took out the cooling parts and cleaned it to redo the thermal paste.
the job had previously been done by hp, and turned out to be done very very poorly,   half the GPU didnt even have thermal paste onit, a big airbubble prevented contact for more then 2/4th of the gpu surface.
i feared a burnout, but the surface didnt show discoloration and it had been working like this since he got it.
Eventhough it was a poor job done, it didnt seem to be burnt and the temperature failsafe just saved it from burning out.
After thouroughly cleaning the big blobs of paste hp put there most of it ending up next to the gpu and cpu instead of onit,blobs big enough to cover atleast 4 of the same type gpu's/cpu's
I redid the thermal paste using arctic silver number 5, the way it should be done and then reinstalled the blocks and heatpipes.
It all went smoothly into place and i reassembled the parts taken off the laptop.
Confident i rebooted, nothing changed and the problem persisted, it seems to be booting, but the screen doesnt display a thing, and stays completely black.
Shining a light onto the screen doesnt reveal any unlit graphics due to a broken backlight or anything.
Since it went through this loop often and me and my friend have been pressing keys to see if it would boot into a bios screen or anything i suspected the bios might have gotten screwed up, so i decided to try and restore default bios.
But how to do that without a screen?   i tried locating a bios jumper to do this but didnt find any.
Then i found a text the hp forom saying i could force factory setting by pressing f10 repeatedly 5x times during startup, then f5 for default and then f10 to safe and exit,enter.
I did try that a couple of times, but the machine doesnt reboot as it should when you safe an exit bios, s i dont even know if i get into bios in reality.
Now ive come across a few known problems with this machine in my forumcrawling.
2 problems wich results in the same behaviour are : 1 a faulty mobo and 2 a faulty board for the webcam behind the top of the display somehow preventing the screen to work properly.
So , dear hp support -  are there any known problems and sulotions to them other then, drain power and boot again?
If this machine did appear on the market with some of em having a faulty mobo, like some mssges say, why is that not on the official forum, and could i be dealing with such a machine, how do i find out?
If im dealing with a broken display, could that have been caused by a videocard overheating?
You can help me by telling me:
-Can i force bios default without having an active screen? if so, how? just pulling the battery and draining power didnt change a thing.
-Can i find out if GPU is broken (the system does seem to boot in the dark on a cold start)
-Can i find out if the display is broken by blinking messages or someting?
-Are there other known problems with this machine that give these failures as a result?
Can it be theres a broken inverter for the backlight? i geuss not, the vga port would be working then.
hopefull for an answer,
A friend's computer fixer.

I brought it into the Apple Store and I was completely denied of the 8600m GT recall. I am not paying $800 for a **** logic board replacement! Seriously, what the ****!?
I find this problem just as bad as the 8600m GT failures because this isn't the only forum I've been too that have people complaining about the same thing.
I don't know what to do anymore. Money doesn't grow on trees and I need a working laptop for school.
If anyone has any other suggestions please don't hesitate to let us know here.
Good luck to the rest of you!

Need ugly boot message

I'm new to the mac pro and I have to run WinXP XP is up and configured but but have an issue now that I've installed an Adaptec RAID card.
I've installed an Adaptec RAID contoller in Slot 2. It is connected only to disks 3 and 4, not to the boot disk. The Mac boots into OS X with no problem. Using the diagnostics util, I can see the card reported in the PCI slot.
The problem is that when I select WinXP for boot, the system hangs with a black screen and a blinking cursor even before Windows gets a chance to boot. The Adaptec manual says i need to press Ctrl-A to get to the RAID controller configuration. However, I'm never prompted for the Ctrl-A and when I simply press Ctrl-A on boot, the keys seem to be ignored.
I worry that the RAID controller is taking over the boot sequence but I can't override this since I can't get to the controller config util. How does one access the ugly boot messages on a Mac? Thanks.

The card is an Adaptec 3405. I've got two 500 Gig Seagates attached to it.
I didn't want XP dealing with the RAID until I had the bootcamp stuff all working. So I XP installed first. I'm very experienced in XP, just not the Mac.
The drives are connected directly to the RAID card via SATA cables. I modified the Mac drive bays 3 & 4 by unscrewing the SATA+power connecters at the end of the drive to make room for the SATA connectors going to the card. Drive power is tapped from the power connector in the 2nd CD bay.
I tried not attacheing the drives but no change. Thanks for your help on this.

T43 – Model 1871-FU1: Will not boot with blank screen. Only Fan is running. Any ideas?

T43 – Model 1871-FU1: Will not boot with blank screen. Only Fan is running. Any ideas?
Solved!
Go to Solution.

What lead_org is referring to is commonly known as "re-balling" which involves unsoldering the Southbridge chip from the planar, replacing all (6-700) solder balls with new ones and then re-attaching it under heat/pressure.
This is the place that you need:
http://www.theboardroom.info/index.html
Good luck.
Cheers,
George
In daily use: R60F, R500F, T61, T410
Collecting dust: T60
Enjoying retirement: A31p, T42p,
Non-ThinkPads: Panasonic CF-31 & CF-52, HP 8760W
Starting Thursday, 08/14/2014 I'll be away from the forums until further notice. Please do NOT send private messages since I won't be able to read them. Thank you.

Photoshop Elements #11 dialog screen missing

I AM UNABLE TO OBTAIN THE SCREEN THAT HAS THE ADVANCED DIALOG BOX ON THE LOWER LEFT HAND CORNER SO THAT I CAN STATE NAME OF CREATOR, COPYWRIGHT ETC.    I have had PS Elements since #1, and never had this problem.'    Yes, I have gone into Preferences and can set download option, but cannot get the screen I have just described.     PLEASE HELP ME

HI,
This still does not work. I have tried to correct this several times
before by doing just what you suggest, but it does not work.   I click on "APD
Advanced Dialog", and it still does not appear when I load my compactflash
card.    This also DOES NOT bring up the Advanced Dialog box where I can
select either advanced or regular etc.   Something is seriously wrong with
this edition of Photoshop 11.   I also tried to acces the link you sent, and
I cannot open it. - ???????
We still have a problem that is not fixed.
I still await your phone call either tomorrow (Friday) or Monday.
Regards,
Dave Pidcock
David E. Pidcock
VisionQuest Enterprises
VisionQuest Photography
405 27th Avenue N.E.
Great Falls, MT 59404
(406) 727-2466
[email protected]
In a message dated 2/21/2013 7:30:12 P.M. Mountain Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
Re: Photoshop Elements #11 dialog screen missing
created by andaleebfatima1
(http://forums.adobe.com/people/andaleebfatima1) in Photoshop Elements - View the full discussion
(http://forums.adobe.com/message/5083732#5083732)

[SOLVED] how to prevent Xorg from clearing boot messages in scrollback

I have an updated Arch install with MATE and LightDM. LightDM autologin is enabled, so I normally boot directly to my desktop. I like seeing the messages that flash by during boot, so I deleted the word "quiet" from the linux line in my grub.cfg. Because I want all the messages to still be there after flashing by (in case I want to scroll through them later), I followed the advice here https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Di … t_messages and I also increased the scrollback buffer and enabled early KMS start.
Despite all the above, I can only scroll back to the beginning of the boot messages if I boot into non-graphical mode (e.g., by adding "systemd.unit=multi-user.target" to GRUB command line). If I allow a normal boot to my destkop and THEN go to non-graphical mode with "sudo systemctl isolate multi-user.target" to look at the boot messages, I notice that I cannot scroll back very far at all--most of the messages that flashed by during boot are gone. Therefore, it seems to me that either lightDM or Xorg is resetting the scrollback buffer and erasing all but the last few boot messages.
So, how do I tell LightDM or Xorg (whichever one is the culprit) *not* to clear the scrollback buffer, so that when I get out of graphical mode and into non-graphical mode the boot messages are all still there?
Last edited by bdantas (2014-08-01 14:19:06)

Since the answer to my original question seems to be "it is not possible," I will make this my last post to prevent the thread from going off-topic.
I came up with a simple workaround that (almost) recreates the old /var/boot/log:
1) put "quiet" on grub2's kernel command line so that only* [FAIL] messages show up, so that I don't have to deal with the scrollback buffer
2) create a startup script with the following contents (script or at least the setterm command must run as root because the setterm command needs to be able to read from /dev/vcs1):
#!/bin/bash
# this script will dump the text of tty1 to /var/log/boot, with same formatting as on the screen
export TERM=xterm
setterm -dump 1 -file /var/log/boot
exit 0
* Unfortunately, even in quiet mode grub2 starts printing all the boot status messages to screen once it encounters a [FAIL]. Therefore, if the [FAIL] occurs early enough in the boot process, the beginning of the messages will scroll off the screen and the workaround won't work. I spun off my two questions related to this nuisance into their own threads:
a) How to make grub2 actually only print [FAIL] messages during boot? https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=184702
b) How to print the contents of console's scrollback buffer to a file? https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 9#p1439359
I hope I can figure out how to do one of the above, because then the workaround would be perfect.
Thanks for the help, guys!
Last edited by bdantas (2014-08-15 02:16:38)

Displaying boot messages besides dmesg everything.log

Hi,
I'm on a fully updated Arch 64b/KDE.
During the pre-graphic boot process I can see several lines indicating a problem with alsa, yet these lines disappear too fast to read them.
After graphically logging in sound works.
Neither dmesg nor everything log display any alsa problems.
Is there a way to either slow the display of the boot messages or capture them/the screen for later analysis?
Thanks

Maybe not the perfect solution but there is also something in the wiki:
Disable_Clearing_of_Boot_Messages

Issues with passing boot messages to Plymouth - absolutely no results!

Lately I've made it my little project to fancy up my box with a nice Plymouth boot screen with scrolling boot messages. I've found the following two pages that give a guide to setting up such a Plymouth theme:
Plymouth: Create your own splash screen with scrolling boot messages
Plymouth pulsating crunchbang logo with boot messages and progress bar
I quickly realized when I tried to make the system changes needed to send boot messages to Plymouth that my system doesn't have either /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/functions (which I believe is very outdated) or /lib/lsb/init-functions which is brought up in the #! forums. I'm assuming that #! uses Linux Standard Base and Arch does not - so I went looking for the files I needed.
The two most likely candidates to me seem to be /lib/initcpio/init_functions and /lib/initcpio/functions. However, changing either one of these files to contain
if [ -x /bin/plymouth ]; then
/bin/plymouth update --status="$@"
fi
or its equivalent produces absolutely no results on reboot, even after running
mkinitcpio -p linux
Are these the correct files? Or am I barking up the wrong tree? I've already tested my Plymouth theme by running the Plymouth daemon and opening up a splash screen in X and using Plymouth's --update=<string> option, and everything works great. I'm kind of at my wit's end, and would rather not have to install LSB to get this working. Has anyone else been successful with this, or perhaps knows which direction to point me in?
Thanks in advance for any advice!!

Bump.
^ No, only joking!
I'm posting again to say that I have found /etc/rc.d/functions - and this seems to be the file I'm looking for. Maybe someone could confirm that before I start mucking around with a file that looks a little to easy to mess up? And maybe perhaps someone knows and easier way to edit this for sending messages to Plymouth other then putting something similar to
if [ -x /bin/plymouth ]; then
/bin/plymouth update --status="$@"
fi
into every function (such as status(), stat_fail(), stat_done(), etc.) I see that /etc/rc.d/functions is called by /etc/rc.sysinit. Could I possibly change rc.sysinit to be
#!/bin/bash
# /etc/rc.sysinit
. /etc/rc.conf
# Call functions for Plymouth
. /etc/rc.d/plymouth_functions
. /etc/rc.d/functions
## Truncated ##
And then create a /etc/rc.d/plymouth_functions file very similar to /etc/rc.d/functions, except running "plymouth update --status=$@" instead of echo commands? Then it would be a simple matter of using gEdit's Replace tool (i.e. "status() ==> status() & plymouth_status()") to edit /etc/rc.sysinit.
Any ideas on whether or not this would work?

Boot Messages In Plymouth

I have plymouth working correctly but I noticed that for this arch theme I'm using called wave (goes from a blue drop of water to the Arch logo on a black background) the boot messages display one by one in the upper left-hand corner when shutting down yet it doesn't display anything when its booting up. Is this normal or is it theme based? I don't really know anything about Plymouth, I just got it working a few days ago.
Last edited by brando56894 (2011-06-08 22:04:07)

ygoreus wrote:
I had a problem like this a few days ago:
If you are using the plymouth from the official repos then it is a bug in plymouth version 0.9.., if you install plymouth-legacy 0.8.8-2 (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/plymouth-legacy/) from the AUR the bug isn't present and it should work.
Thanks so much man it totally fixed the problem! I wonder why the newest version of plymouth doesn't work on laptop, it is pretty new. Hmm. Anyways I can boot but gdm-plymouth.service gets stuck on waiting for plymouth boot screen to end but regular gdm works fine, so I'll stick with that. Thanks for your help!

IMac G5 boots to gray screen with Apple logo only

iMac G5 boots to gray screen with apple logo only.
What I've tried:
Won't boot to safe mode.
Reset PRAM several times.
Won't boot to install disk with "C" depressed at startup.
Will boot to screen showing HD and arrow buttons when "alt" depressed at startup. But clicking HD icon and proceed arrow just goes back to the gray screen with apple logo. Note the HD icon has a blue "x" symbol.
With install disc in, will boot with "alt" depressed at startup to three icons, HD, install disc, and apple hardware test. Both HD and install disc icons have the blue "x" symbol and won't run. BUT the apple hardware test icon doesn't have a blue "x" and runs. Extended test says all hardware OK.
Finally, startup in single user mode with "apple-s" depressed goes to a non-gui white text (UNIX core?) which gives blocks of repetitive text starting "unresolved kernal trap (cpu0)...(lots of date)...latest crash.....backtrace:" My rough guide to the Mac gives me text to enter at that point but I can't input to the screen.
That's where I'm stuck.

You're encountering a kernel panic.
[I got a black screen telling me I had to reboot in many languages, what was it?|http://www.dslreports.com/faq/4970] Also has detailed description of what happens during a KP.
[Apple docs: What's a kernel panic? (Mac OS X)|http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106227]
[Topic : kmosx: Kernel Panics? Don't panic too !|http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=121923]
[X-Lab: Resolving Kernel Panics|http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/kernelpanics.html]
[Tutorial: Avoiding and eliminating Kernel panics|http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20060911080447777]
[Tutorial: An introduction to reading Mac OS X crash reports|http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20060309075929717]
[12-Step Program to Isolate Freezes and/or Kernel Panics|http://macosg.com/group/viewtopic.php?t=800]
[Texas Mac Man's post on kernel panics|http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1723768&tstart=0]
These are often attributed to hardware problems though they can also be due to corruption of software. Since you're also encountering it with your DVD I'd tend more towards the former. Your computer seems to be passing the early stage POST tests for RAM. Apple Hardware Test also seems to be passing but [X-Lab: The Apple Hardware Test|http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/aht.html] document recommends using this in loop mode to test for intermittent problems.
Sometimes the crash logs (all the error messages you are seeing) contain information about the problem, but there's an art to reading those.

[SOLVED] Stop first 20 boot messages clearing

How to stop the first 20 or so, boot messages clearing? Petty sure this happened after a previous systemd update.
I know about changing TTYVTDisallocate to no - https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sy … er_boot.3F - but this only keeps the remaining messages on screen.
Last edited by Colanco (2013-08-12 07:58:49)

Colanco wrote:Solved this on my particular setup by doing the following:
Thanks for posting this - really appreciate it.
1. Enabled 'early KMS start' by adding radeon to MODULES line in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/KM … _KMS_start
This was needed to stop console is being reset by the graphics module in Late KMS Start (default) thus clearing boot messages before module was loaded.
OK. So I guess early KMS is not my problem .
2. Change TTYVTDisallocate to no in [email protected] to stop boot message clearing:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Di … t_Messages
This does not seem like the right way to do this but I'm not entirely sure what is. I think that what is in that directory should be just a symlink.
The recommended way to edit unit files is at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sy … unit_files. However, I'm not clear quite how to apply that in this case. What I'm currently trying is
$ cat /etc/systemd/system/[email protected]/TTYVTDisallocate-BLOCK.conf
[Service]
TTYVTDisallocate=no
However this will affect all VTs generated from the template. Does anybody know if it is bad to have TTYVTDisallocate set to false for tty{2,3,...}?
EDIT: Or are the other VTs generated from something else? It makes no sense to me they'd be generated from the template in /usr/lib/systemd/system since surely TTYVTDisallocate is inappropriate for the other ttys? Doesn't disallocating it make it unavailable for login etc.? Or have I misunderstood?
3. Increased scrollback for console by adding fbcon=scrollback:300k to /boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Scrollback_buffer
Did you also append xxxfb as the wiki says? If so, what did you use? I'm confused because it mentions the name of your video driver but I'm not sure what that is since this is not concerned with X.
Last edited by cfr (2013-08-12 23:35:57)

FIX: IPad turns on and off in a loop during charging, boots to home screen and reboots

Ok, after having my ipad 2 3rd Generation for about a year, its bombed out on me,playing on it until battery drained. Didn’t think anything of it, plugged into charge thinking it would be charged by the morning. This didn’t happen.
It was stuck on the apple sign, booted to home screen and switched off again due to low battery. Continued on this loop for the whole day……
I searched the internet and it seemed all doom and gloom that I would need to by another one. Then I stumbled upon a forum where the advice so far has worked for me.
The reason why it gets stuck in a loop is because the IPad was not shut down manually, so therefore keeps trying to boot up soon as it has some battery power. Problem is, its gone beyond a point and now and there isn’t enough battery life to boot to main or home screen after apple logo.
The remedy is quiet simple, follow these steps to get the ipad to home screen to power it down so it has sufficient time to charge up and boot normally and get off the endless loop.
Plug into wall socket to get it charging.
Wait until the apple logo appears and wants to boot up.
QUICKLY hold down home button and reset/ sleep button at the same time until it reboots.
Release buttons now. should now power down and reboot
Repeat step 3 at least 30 to 40 times which is about 10 minutes in duration everytime you see the logo appear on the screen.
Now Let IPad boot up fully, should see home screen with about 2% battery life
QUICKLY hit the rest/ sleep button down for about 2 to 5 seconds.
Swipe the screen to when slider appears to switch off the ipad.
This will now power down the IPad which now will not reboot by itself so it can now charge without any interruption’s.
Allow battery to charge for a least an hour or two without trying to put it on.
Switch the IPad on
You should now have about 10 to 20% battery Life
Power it down again by holding the reset/ Sleep button down again and swipe the screen to power down, let it charge fully to 100% now which will take few hours
Enjoy your IPad again
Lesson learnt. When your battery power is low, dont wait for it drain completely, rather power the pad down manually and let it charge when there is only about 2 to 4% battery life left.
Hope this guide helps people with the same problem as I had. Took me about 2 days of research and searching until I found a solution that worked. Hopefully this will assist anyone going through the same pain, and possibly not have to buy another one which seems to be the case when people take the pad to an istore with the same issue.
Cheers,

I tried to restore using recovery mode it give error 4013, also tried the same with iMac with my friend again error.
Let me give little more details:
1. After iOS 8.2 upgrade, 2-3 days often 3-4 times a day it used to restart again and again then will get Home screen.
2. Also at times it happened, it boots again and again left the device as it is then it comes to Home screen.
3. Lastly it did the same behavior but it did not boot up, but keep booting again and again apple logo is shown then restart
4. Tried to get into recovery mode, windows PC error 4013, now in the recovery mode.
My Battery was in good condition, when it happened it was ~80% now may be very less did not charge until now.
I read somewhere in the forum keep re-starting manually again and again, someone said since it did not shutdown properly there is a problem, please help.
The device is 1.2 yrs old ONLY.
Best regards
Prabu

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