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Also make a bootable windows 10 iso: Download Windows 10
This may be useful now or in the future.
Also make a bootable windows 10 iso: Download Windows 10
This may be useful now or in the future.
First of all, thank you for all the support, everyone.
I have a Windows boot disk which I made a while ago.
When it does start up :) , I can get into the BIOS.
Funny enough, last night, the machine all of a sudden decided to start up again.
This morning too, however, on both occasions, the battery was removed, but the laptop was plugged into the mains.
Could that indicate a faulty battery? Yet, in my taskbar, the battery gauge looks quite normal, at 100%, no red cross or anything.
Once again, a "ghost" copy of my Generic PnP Monitor had appeared in the Device Manager and the Intel Graphics driver is now 19/05/2016.
So, looks like a bit of a puzzle here, but thank you for all the help so far.
By the way, my reference to the CMOS battery is to a small circular battery, not rechargeable;
How to replace the CMOS battery
I have no way of knowing if that may or may not be related to this problem, and normally those last about 5 years max.
Also, when your PC has booted, try checking your disk:
Download Hard Disk Sentinel (trial) and post a screenshot of its GUI for your disk.
Thanks.
Don't use that scamware. I found this Download Snappy Driver Installer - MajorGeeks which is free and will let you update all of your drivers. I use it on any new installed W10 machine. It is a bit slow as it has to download big packages but it does not bug you to pay.
Ok, not the disk. Good.
If the CMOS battery voltage is low, that can stop a PC booting. The reason I hesitate is that there are usually other symptoms. No way to know for certain.
See e.g.
Laptop turns on/off repeatedly, doesnt display anything on screen [Solved] - Laptops - Laptop Tech Support
(I searched for
Laptop starts with black screen, switches off
- plenty of results for you to check)
Thank you so much for all your patience and the time you invest in other people's problems, everyone.
Open administrative command prompt and type or copy and paste these commands:
1) sfc /scannow
2) dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth
3) chkdsk /scan
4) msconfig (move dot from normal startup to selective startup, in-check load startup items, click services tab, in the left lower corner check hide all Microsoft services, in the lower right click disable all, click apply or ok and do not reboot.)
5) taskmgr (click the startup tab, click the status column so that it sorts with enable on top, right click each row that displays enable and change to disable)
6) shutdown /r
At this juncture you should be in clean boot.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...oot-in-windows
How to perform a Clean Boot in Windows 10 - TechNet Articles - United States (English) - TechNet Wiki
7) powercfg -energy
Please use onedrive to post a share link for the report: C:\Windows\system32\energy-report.html
Please report the results of each scannow, restorehealth, and chkdsk /scan into the forum.
Let us know about any performance changes comparing normal boot to clean boot.
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