startup issues

Okay now I have an issue with windows, namely secureboot and UEFI. This is not for my computer but for my fathers machine. As an early birthday present I got my father a HP Pavilion laptop that came preinstalled with windows 8.1 but he didnt like it and wanted a dual boot. So I gave him Ubuntu...

Hi all, I have not been a member if this forum long, but have been helped by what I have learnt from here. I won't go into to much detail, but recently on startup I got nothing but a black screen and could not even start in safe mode. I have tried many things and the best I can now do is start...

Hi guys. I have an old 2001 HP laptop that came with vista. I've made recovery discs. I installed windows 7 home premium. Worked ok for day and a half. Then it wouldn't start. It just said its being prevented from starting. Goes into text boot with option to try to fix windows boot or run...

I'm very much a novice but can follow instructions to get things done. I am running windows 7. I have an ASUS laptop and the other night I watch a movie that I had on an external hard drive. After the movie I can't remember how the system was shut down or how the hard drive was removed from...

how do I boot a recovery drive usb on start up in windows 8 .1 How do I boot a recovery drive usb on start up in windows 8 .1 like I can do in win 7 with a repair disk DVD? I followed the instructions and I cannot bring up the usb disk. Please help!! I have had problems with win 8.1 to the...

My windows 8 computer stays black when I start it. I can't see anything, I've been waiting hours and the screen stays black All I did was hit a lot of buttons at once and then my computer shut off. Now I restart it and it stays black. What is wrong here???? PLEASE HELP

I have an HP Pavilion g6 Series with Win 7 Home Premium. Every time I boot the machine up it gets stuck on the "Starting Windows" screen. I tried running Hirens boot to fix the MBR thinking it may be the issue. No such luck. I am really trying to avoid re-installing windows because I have a...

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So I have a new Windows 8.1 build and its been having quite a few problems. On start ups if I don't go into bios before loading into windows I get a blue screen. I also get lots of crashes, usually when playing games. If you need me to upload any other files let me know. Thanks in advance, Edward.

So I started the windows 8.1 update on my hp laptop and it got to the part where it restarts. After the restart it said setting up and at 66% it froze. Now its stuck on main computer start up screen. Anyone have any ideas?

I have a Windows 7 Home Premium , 64-bit OS, Acer Aspire 5253, 3GB Ram,AMDC-50 Processor, 1 GHz, with Internet cable modem, with 10mb download speed. My GF with a similar Notebook PC uses the building's Wi-fi network, via my router and the speed is 5X faster than mine. Whether I'm using a...

Hello, starting last night every time I would start my Windows 7 laptop, everything would be fine until it would normally show the login screen. But it doesn't show the login screen. It's just a black screen with the mouse icon. I've read a bunch of other forum threads like this, but they all...

I have a client pc, that is Windows 7 64-bit SP1. They complained about getting pop ups, initially thought it was spyware. However, after going on-site it is a an error of Windows Explorer has stopped working. I was able to copy combofix from a flash drive to the hard drive using cmd prompt...

Event Viewer in my Win 7: The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load: Avgldx64 This is the train of events that lead to trouble: 1. I had AVG free for months and never had any problems with it. 2. 3 weeks ago I downloaded IObit Ultimate and Iobit Malware Fighter to...

Thought I'd try to get some insight here -before- I drive myself nuts and spend hours troubleshooting why I can't get the device manager to start. I even went to the system32 folder and tried to run it from there. Also from the start menu, services, performance monitor, computer management...

Hi Everyone ! I am using Windows 7 ultimate x64. My sister plugged a memory card into my laptop some days ago. Since then, there is a folder "$RECYCLE.BIN" created in all of my hdd drives. I delete that folder but it reappears whenever laptop is restarted. Its really annoying me right now. Any...

I'm using a Toshiba Laptop(L750-X5317) with windows 7 home premium. Last week while starting the laptop, it got stuck at "Starting Windows" screen. I then switched it off and restarted it again. It asked for "Start up repair" or "Start windows normally". I chose start windows normally. It...

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Hi folks. My system specs are - Compaq Presario SG3470IL Desktop PC windows 7 ultimate service pack 1 32-bit intel core 2 duo @2.60 ghz 4gb ddr2 ram sapphire radeon hd 6450 1gb ddr3 dx11 graphics card motherboard - msi boston 7525/775 LGA socket PCI-Ex 1.0 chipset - p35/g33/g31...

I have a new Acer Aspire V3-571 laptop with Windows 7 x64. Yesterday I bought a GPS receiver (Qstarz 818XT). It has a wireless Bluetooth adapter just like a keyboard/mouse adapter. I noticed that my laptop was having issues shutting down. I would tell it to shut down, and a few hours later the...