boot issues

I have a ASUS Netbook (X200CA) that has received the free Win 10 upgrade a year or two ago. It recently went about it's business and installed one of the many Win 10 updates and has never been able to recover since that time (around 12/25/17 or shortly thereafter). It gets to the blue Win 10...

Recently the updates released by Microsoft to combat Meltdown and Spectre have caused some boot issues for those running with certain AMD processors. (this issue is only affecting older AMD cpu's apparently) January 3, 2018—KB4056897 (Security-only update) January 9, 2018—KB4056894 (Monthly...

I have three computers on a home network that perform certain functions automatically and when no one is attending them. I use auto logon on all three so that they can boot up and perform those functions. This has worked flawlessly under XP, Win7 and Win10 until the 2017 Creators Edition broke...

Hi! I tried installing Debian 9 on my Windows 7 laptop this morning and have managed to break my Windows. I'd like to have it set up so I can choose which OS to boot from at start up. I used the Debian GNU installer to partition my hard drive and install. I am able to start Debian from GNU GRUB...

I have a HP Pavilion, and for the last two days it’s been stuck on either the loading screen, diagnosing screen, or preparing updates. No matter what I do I can’t get past it. I’ve tried every type of resetting, which has worked in the past when this has happened. All I want is to get into my...

Whenever I boot up or restart my PC, it'll always start on the next screen (which is bank) instead of the screen with all my icons and links. How do I make this screen the default?

My W8.1 64 bit Acer XC605 worked OK for some time and still when SSD installed as boot DD. Suddenly it decided to always enter Setup on boot, despite BIOS being set to boot from SSD. Nothing seems to alter this and I have to use f12 every time to boot to Win. Any ideas? PS: I tried to...

Due a 'publishing problem' some users experienced problems after installing recent updates. This has now been rectified with details below: "Microsoft is aware of a publishing issue with the October 10th, 2017 monthly security updates for Windows 10 version1703 (KB4041676) and version 1607...

Hello, I just found my old pc and it has windows xp installed on it, last time I used it, it worked perfectly and now a few years later it don't work! Whenever it tries to load windows xp it always reboots and starts over, even in safe mode. Can someone please help, thanks in advance! :)

Hey everyone, Please help me! I tried to install Kali Linux on my pendrive, but it was not complete due to some partition problem and I aborted the installation, after which my device restarted. But after the HP logo, the screen became black and unresponsive. I powered off by power button and...

Sorry I am sort of a newbie sorry if I forgot any thing, let me know if I need to add anything. Okay so I noticed when I started my computer today that the disk is at 100% more or less all the time right now. I cannot figure out why this is happening and it causes my machine to go really slow...

I have a new Surface Laptop and want to boot to a USB thumb. Unlike the Surface Pro, the laptop does not have a Volume button. It does use F5/F6, but neither work for booting. I know that I can select a custom startup from within Win 10 Pro, but want to go from power off to USB boot. Thanks.

For the last two weeks, every time I boot up Windows 10 Windows Defender find threats! I clear them out and more pop up the next time I reboot. This is something other than the threats. Maybe its buggy software in Windows 10. It's annoying more than anything else. Here's the threat...

Hi everyone, I'm having a similar issue , when my HP all in one pavillion model 23-p108a tries to boot the screen goes blue with the crash code stating that hard drive is not mountable , so i tried to test the hardware which tested all , memory and hardrive and everything else and it was all...

I have a Lenovo Ideapad 15-500isk laptop running Windows 10 (ip to date) and connected wirelessly (5G) to the network via a Virgin Media Superhub 2 running a 150 MB/s. I have also connected, via the hub 2, an Acer Laptop running Windows 10, a smart TV, a Galaxy Tabs,a Galaxy A3. a Galaxy S7...

Hey, guys. I am currently dealing with the annoyance of my PC booting into bios whenever I try to start it up. After I exit the bios, it then boots into windows but this is causing my PC to slow down tremendously because I have an SSD cache. The cache gets wiped every single time this happens...

Since creators update was installed a couple of days ago, I've been seeing this message on the screen during boot up: "Scanning and repairing drive , (followed by a bunch of things in parentheses), then ending with 100%" Then the machine finishes booting up. This happens all the time when...

screen saver photos show when win10 is booted and left without using mouse for 6 min the photo screen saver comes on and shows the px fine .. after I move the mouse and open a program the screen /saver photo s will not work again until the pc is rebooted. would like to get fixed. t/you

Hello Is it normal for a windows to run this two files at/after boot (always delayed) for time to time and at specific time always 1:00 AM (conhost) or is some kinda virus ?? I'm using win 7 ultimate x64 Thanks for help

Hi all, I've got a 2TB hdd that I want to remove from the current machine, but I've noticed that there is a System Reserved partition on it. If I remove the HDD, the system will boot up normally? Or I'll have problems?