I'm experiencing a problem when my computer starts. Apparently - according to the system event-log - a service hung on startup. (Having my Windows set to English I'm unsure why there's a German word included but well...)
The Geräteinstallations-Manager service hung on starting.
^^^ Device-Installation-Manager ^^^This seems to slow down my startup every time, be it a restart, crash or simply startup, by almost exactly one minute. Right after the error log, there's an information log, also with source set to Service Control Manager.
The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) did not load:
damMy PC is a self-build, all updates are installed, running Windows 8.1 Pro.
Google has some sources for Windows 2000 and other outdated ways... does anyone know how this could be fixed ?
I also did sfc /scannow.
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MS source:
"The DAM is a kernel-mode driver that is loaded and initialized at system boot if the system supports connected standby."
It seems that the self-build hardware allows connected standby and the kernel is trying to load the driver before any user process is started.
You should check that the delay does not come from a boot time or system driver with higher priority (parent driver).
Does this happen on boot to Safe mode? (dam is not needed here I think) So you can exclude all drivers started in safe mode from check.
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