Vista countdown freeze on boot screen - countdown frozen

Sometimes when Vista boots, the boot managerscreen shows teh countdown timer frozen at 2 or 4 seconds.
\the number is still displayed but does not count down.
If I hit enter to boot vista it will start loading then go to a blank screen.
Sometimes it counts down fine and then boots ok with no apparent problems

Screen glitches and system crashes that still persist even while booted from the Install Disk points very strongly toward a hardware problem, even if AHT can't find it. Things to consider:
AHT asks that you disconnect non-essential pheriphals to run the test, & it doesn't test them. But you can just by removing them temporarily. (Note the the installer disk will boot the system even if no hard drive is installed.) Extend this to everything that can be removed without making the Mac Pro non-functional, including anything non-essential in its PCI slots.
Even though third party RAM is more suspect than Apple-supplied RAM, the latter can go bad as well. Try every combination of the minimum number of modules needed to run the OS on your Mac Pro to see what happens. You can also try extended RAM testing with Rember. You may also find the "Press" links at the Rember web site useful for more info about this, for example Troubleshooting Tools: Memtest and Remberfrom MacFixIt.
Physical inspection of the hardware sometimes also helps: are all cables & connectors (both internal & external) tight & in good condition? All covers in place & properly oriented? Any foreign objects lodged anywhere in the case, especially small bits of metal or other conductive substances? Mac Pro's are very cleanly designed inside as well as out, but it is still possible that the problem is caused by something like this.

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Since I got the phone, it's been freezing up and/or totally crashing to the reboot screen for no apparent reason. First time it happened, I had set an alarm on the clock, alarm went off & I turned the alarm off and put the phone down. Went back to it 10 min. later and phone was completely shut off. (And yes, I'm positive I did not turn it off, and no one else touched it, lol.)
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As you can see.. Stated above.. Quote "I have tried Recovery.. and it does not work.." Unquote
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I'm sure this is probably covered in here somewhere but I can't find it, after an hour of searching I have already done everything I see suggested!
I'm stuck on the Apple booting screen on my 3gs with the spinning wheel, I've tried resetting and restored to earlier versions and to blank but everything ends the same.
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Hi everyone, long time Mac owner, first time poster.
I have a problem. I have been the proud owner of a macbook pro 13' for a few years now. Recently I have felt the need to upgrade my laptop to include more memory and a SSD hard drive.
Below is the series of events that has led me to the problem of freezing during use of the "boot from cd" method
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I realize I can clone the drive however was looking for a fresh start. Am I missing any crucial steps here? Any insight into this issue would be appreciated.
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MacBook Pro 5.5 (unibody circa 2009-10)
Intel Core 2 Duo
2.26 Ghz
2GB Ram
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Hi Ryan & a warm welcome to the Forums, great detailed 1st post BTW!
Have you done a PRAM reset, CMD+Option+p+r...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=2238
Resetting MacBook and MacBook Pro System Management Controller (SMC)...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303319
Have you reseated the Optical connections? (Though I find them short lived)
Do you have another Mac with Firewire around that you could use as a FW Optical?
Currently running SL, looking to use original MBP OSX disk (Leopard) for recovery.
Hmmm, not certain, but I'm not sure that'll work at all.

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