Laptop freezes on start up

[xbabyabyx]

Sometimes (quite often!) when I turn on my laptop it will boot up with the HP
logo, then it won't do anything. It doesn't turn off, it just stays with a
black screen. Sometimes however I can get further then that at the loading
bar comes up with Microsoft Corporation written underneath, the green bit
moves then it goes black and stays that way. Even more rarely it will boot up
to the login screen and when I type in my user password and press enter the
will freeze. Sometimes it won't even load the HP screen it will just do
nothing. I have just taken into a repair shop to have some damage repaires, I
am fed up of taking it there anymore. So can anyone help?? Thanks

(oh and sometimes the power light comes on and it just flashes at me and the
laptop does nothing!!)

 

[NoStop]

Sometimes (quite often!) when I turn on my laptop it will boot up with the
HP logo, then it won't do anything. It doesn't turn off, it just stays
with a black screen. Sometimes however I can get further then that at the
loading bar comes up with Microsoft Corporation written underneath, the
green bit moves then it goes black and stays that way. Even more rarely it
will boot up to the login screen and when I type in my user password and
press enter the will freeze. Sometimes it won't even load the HP screen it
will just do nothing. I have just taken into a repair shop to have some
damage repaires, I am fed up of taking it there anymore. So can anyone
help?? Thanks

(oh and sometimes the power light comes on and it just flashes at me and
the laptop does nothing!!)

If you're fed up taking it to a "repair shop", consider dropping it off in a
local dumpster or recycle bin.

Cheers.


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AlexB (another Vista expert): "I ruined at least 5 or 6 installations of
Vista
before I realized what was going on."

 

[alexB]

Boot it to safe mode by pressing F8 after you just powered it on and see
what the error messages are in the Event Viewer.

There is a strong chance that your computer is infected with malware. You
will have to clean it up. Then it will run OK.

Also, if you used any 3-rd party software like Registry cleaners or the
likes then this is an expected result. If any of the above is true, don't
blame Vista, blame yourself.

My policy is not to use any 3-rd party anti-malware except Spybot S&D.
Windows Vista offers sufficient protection against malicious software
writers some of them I am sure watch this forum very carefully.

Download Microsoft Windows Baseline Security Analyzer. It is Beta 2.1 for
Vista and I think it is safe to download. Run it.

<http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...AF-9DBE-4DCE-889E-ECF997EB18E9&displaylang=en>

It will give you all your vulnerabilities, especially in your firewall
settings. You should read the report and if it suggests any changes, you
should consider them.
Your Windows firewall setting will be analyzed.

Download Microsoft® Windows® Malicious Software Removal Tool (KB890830). It
will want to run upon install. Choose the FULL scan although it may give you
a threatening message that it might take a few hours. It will scan your
entire computer in about half an hour or less if you do not have a lot of
stuff in it.

<http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...e0-e72d-4f54-9ab3-75b8eb148356&displaylang=en>

Some reassuring information: Malicious Software Removal Tool
<http://www.microsoft.com/security/malwareremove/default.mspx>
The Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool helps remove specific,
prevalent malicious software from computers that are running Windows Vista,
Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, or Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=890830

You can also go to Protection Center (Microsoft)
<http://onecare.live.com/site/en-US/center/howsafe.htm?s_cid=mscom_msrt>
and click "Protection Scan." There will be a dropdown menu and a button:
"Launch Full Scan or Vista." You can do it if you wish.

Download and install Spybot Search & Destroy, a great piece of software
which is free for individuals but corporations pay fees. You may be asked
for donations but it is up to you. It is very up to date and every week you
will have to download new updates, sometimes even more often. You should
check for updates every time you run it. It will give you all su*kers
leached into your registry and ask you if you wanted to remove them. Many of
them have masqueraded themselves under MS Windows names like
Windows.something. Do not hesitate to kill them all. You can trust SB S&D.

http://www.spybot.info/en/index.html

It also allows you to IMMUNIZE your system. It means that when you go to a
website and they try to download some kind of a Trojan to you SB S&D will
either kill it silently, or ask you if you want to do it or will kill it and
give you a notice. It is better to let it kill them all in silence.

Listen to Mark Russinovich's (MS) webcast: Advanced Malware Cleaning

<http://www.microsoft.com/emea/spotlight/sessionh.aspx?videoid=359>

Downloading any 3-rd party "free" anti-spyware program (with teh exception
SB S&D) is an invitation for a disaster.

The AV (antivirus industry) is on the way to the cemetery:
The slow death of AV technology:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/08/death_of_av/
Vista did it in.
Last note: it has been suggested around here by some unscrupulous trolls
that the Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) and SB S&D do not
clean the registry. MSRT and SB S&D work on different principles. MSRT in
full mode reads RAM memory and detects patterns in the files that match
known viruses and other malware configuraions. This is why it takes so long
to run. If malicious code is detected it is also quite likely that it has a
representation in the registry. The only way to remove a particular piece of
malware is to CLEAN the registry off of this key.
SB S&D works by going thru the registry and locating known names that match
its database of malicious software. After all culprits are found the user is
asked if he/she want to remove the malicious software. If you say OK, then
the registry IS CLEANED of this set of malicious execs. The execs themselves
are killed in the respective folders.
In this sense both tools do CLEAN the registry. They do not do any
"housekeeping" which is absolutely superfluous and unnecessary. It is NOT
recommended by MS and most of the experienced users as well.

 

[Malke]

alexB wrote:

(major snippage)

There is a strong chance that your computer is infected with malware. You
will have to clean it up. Then it will run OK.

No, AlexB. There is *not* a "strong chance" that the OP's computer is
infected. Although it most certainly could be, the description of the issue
points to failed hardware, not a software issue. So all that "help" you
gave the OP - incorrect "help" about removing malware, anyway - will not be
useful.

To the OP - Since the machine will not consistently boot into Windows, you
have some hardware failure. It could be a bad power supply, bad hard drive,
bad motherboard, etc. There is no way of telling from here. Since it is a
laptop, repairs that you can do yourself are limited. Contact the laptop
mftr.'s tech support for repair/replacement.

Malke

 

[alexB]

You may be right but it does not hurt to try what I offered. It is a no
liability solution.

He can try chkdsk, hardware diagnostics, etc but since he is saying that he
took it to the repair shop I presume they checked the hardware all out.

It is unlikely they did a comprehensive software delousing.

 

[Guest]

A Better Solution Is To Re-Format The Computer And Install Either Microsoft
Windows Server 2008 RTM, Or Open Source Linux Ubuntu 7.10 RTW, Also Just
FYI.