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Computer freezes on restart
I have had a few issues with my new HP Pavilion Pc570-P027, and now a new one. Whenever I restart the system (click restart) I get a blank screen with RESTARTING in the middle of the screen, and that's it! I can let it sit for hours, and nothing happens. I have to hold the power button down for about 5 seconds to turn it off, then I can turn it on, and all is well. I don't know if it matters, but the boot drive is an SSD. The system is less than two months old (and has random video instability) but until a couple days ago, it would restart OK. Yes, I'm sure I have done something because (in trying to solve other issues) I have set SLEEP and POWER DOWN to NEVER (which doesn't work, it still sleeps and tries to do Auto Login even though the reg entry is set to zero), but I don't know what. Any ideas?
Thanx!