restart loop

If you were hoping for a smooth end to 2024 with your Windows 11 PC, well, Microsoft might’ve dropped the proverbial lump of coal into your digital stocking. The KB5048685 update, rolled out as part of December’s Patch Tuesday, has turned into a whirlwind of troubles for many users across...

Hi, everyone. Trying to fix this issue already 2nd day and I realize that I need more help. My windows 7 was installed on Samsung SSD. I recently got Crucial SSD and decided to install Windows 10 as second OS. Before installation I decided to change my Windows 7 disk from MBR to GPT using...

So, I’m running windows 7 32 bit on my work pc and some new policies come down from corp. headquarters that all the pc’s hard drives need to be encrypted with kapersky and the have to be updated every month with windows updates else the pc will be booted from the network. So, I reboot by pc one...

Alright so today I decided to clean out my cluttered gaming laptop and start completely fresh. So I decided to do a full system refresh. All was going good until my computer began to get stuck at the windows OS install screen saying "Installing windows 10%. Installing drivers 16%" for 3 hours...

Hello Everyone, Yesterday evening, my PC decided to automatically update to the newest Windows 10 update. About 64% in I got a blue screen with the message '' Sorry we could not continue with the installation. We will restartsWindows for you'' and since then it is stuck on a restart loop. The...

Windows Defender Software automatically updated on my Dell Venue 8 Pro, which is preloaded with Windows 8.1. When I wanted to shut down my tablet, I chose the option to install updates and for it to shut down afterwards. The next morning I switched my tablet on, the BSOD appeared with an error...

Hi Guys I'm getting a blue screen when I try and shut down my computer. I get the normal "Shutting Down" screen and after a minute or so a blue screen pops up. It shows this error message. Driver Verifier IOManager Violation UIMbuss.sys Then the computer says that it has to restart, and it...

Hello all, After 5 years of use, my college laptop (Windows Vista) finally gave up on me a couple of months ago. Each time at start up, it would automatically go to the blue screen of death and never get past that point. I wound up getting a new laptop (ASUS S500CA) operating on windows 8, and...

Ok, i think i really screwed up. I ran a disk check and when it was about 27% i thought it was stuck because it wouldn't move from there, so i hard shut it down. (i should mention that it installed 11 updates when i restarted). When it restarted the prompt telling me to press any key to bypass...

The HDD in my laptop failed and i got a new one, I had to install Windows 7 again obviously and whenever i start the computer i'm greeted with "Windows is preparing for first time use" When it boots into windows 7 it then brings up a window that is only supposed to come up the first time you use...

My wife has gotten the FBI scam virus and I'm trying to get rid of it. Just to not to waste time.. I cannot enter safe mode. I cannot get the windows enter screen. Sorry but I've been to a hundred different sites and they all pretty much say the same thing. When I try to go into safe mode it...

hi there, I'll describe my initial problem first: Packard bell PC imedia something, radeon sapphire 5670 HD GPU upgrade, recent (Jan 2012) windows 7 64 bit custom install upgrade from vista 32 bit, during which i backed up all files on a Samsung external hard drive, then did a complete hard...

Hello. This wierd problem accured to me today. Yesterday I was playing, surfin on my PC. Now when i tried to start windows it would not come pass the loading screen to my desktop. It will just restart the PC over and over again. I have tried to repair windows with my install CD but it cannot...

Hello :smile: I have a Intel Quad Core HP elite Desktop M8190a everything is as manufactured except i upgraded the ram to 4GB. Originally running Vista .. Last week while playing a mp3 file from an external HDD a loud "ticking" occured then the computer crashed. Restarted automatically then a...

Hi guys, I recently upgraded our old computer from Windows XP to Windows 7 Professional. It wouldn't boot from the CD to install for some strange reason so I put the hard drive in my computer and installed it from there. After it installed, I put the HDD back into the old computer and tried to...

So about a day ago my desktop began displaying the blue screen upon login and then instant restart. I was not able to access safe mode as it did the exact same thing. I tried startup repair, memory diagnostics tool, system recovery, nothing worked. so i cleared everything on my drive...

I have had Windows 7 64bit Pro on my computer for around 10 months. I use an Upgrade version through my University that works exactly like a normal copy of Windows 7. I have had no problems with it until now. When I start it up normally and choose Windows 7 (I also have Windows XP pro on my...

Hey everyone, My newly bought computer has been experiencing random BSOD recently. Most of the time it occurs when I am on the internet. Sometimes it just happens randomly. It was recently in a restart loop and windows recovery (or whatever it is called did not work). After several restarts I...

I am trying to install XP Professional onto a friends laptop and I have caught a little snag. I installed it from the hard drive with a setup.exe. I went through the setup and it restarted a couple of times and I think I am done until after a restart I get a pop up saying...

I already reformatted my computer so don't ask me for logs and stuff but that was the only time something bad happened with my computer and I did not have a slightest idea how to solve the problem or what could cause it. Yesterday I got one Windows Update.. after install the computer said I...