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Boot Failure

Forum discussion tagged with Boot Failure.
  1. jasonlame

    Solved! LG Q6 in boot loop with a small pop up window/screen after hard reset

    I have a LG Q6 android phone. Yesterday I decided to hard reset my phone. Then when I did that, the phone first displayed a screen containing Erasing and then the restarting process keeps happening again and again. The process won't stop and I noticed that during this process a kind of pop up...
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    Question ASUS Vivobook S15 from 2018 stopped working all of a sudden!

    hello! Earlier today my sturdy Vivobook S15 completely stopped working. Almost on AC 24/7 and has been a real workhorse so he can deserve some issue a bit... 5 years. Anyway, was dong some Windows10 updates, had to restart, then went to black screen.... left it there for a while.... a long...
  3. Qhanna

    Question Asus logo screen stuck

    Using k43e, i3, windows 10 pro. My Computer went blank, tried crtl + shift + windows logo key + B MULTIPLE TIMES ,worked, shuted down, after restart screen stuck at logo. Can't do anything. cant open bios cant open the system repair. All I can touch is new sdd which working before accident...
  4. L

    Solved! My Toshiba is stuck on "Toshiba Leading Innovations" screen

    I turned on my Toshiba Sattelite C50t-b1933 and it would not boot up but it would just be stuck in the " toshiba leading innovations" screen. By the way it is running linux. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
  5. M

    Solved! Sony VAIO Laptop SVF15218SNW boots for few seconds, but then immediately switches off

    I have Sony VAIO Laptop Model SVF15218SNW. The problem is that sometimes the laptop boots and functions normally and sometimes it doesn't boot at all. From the last few days, the laptop when powered up boots for 2-3 seconds and then instantly switches off with a clicking sound probably coming...
  6. K

    Solved! (Perplexing) Windows often (sometimes) failed to boot, while Linux mostly boots fine.

    I bought 2 HP Elitebooks 8730w 17" laptops for less than $150 each back in 2017. One of them works fine, while the other constantly often fails to boot Windows. It fails about 70-80% of the time (at least). While Linux (Ubuntu 16.04) will be successfull (at least 90% of the time). For Windows...
  7. D

    RCA Tablet exhibiting some weird behaviour after not booting

    The missus has an RCA tablet that she plays a few games on. Had it for a couple of years. If I remember correctly it's orphaned at Android 5. Yesterday, it froze, so she forced it off by holding the power button for a while. She was unable to power it on. I said i'd take a look and took it to...
  8. M

    New Asus Laptop dies during booting up.

    Ive tried opening up the laptop, but its so hard ti pry the lid open. I could pull really hard but afraid that ill snap the keyboard. Sometimes ill get lucky and boot all the way to desktop. But then all of a sudden,it shuts off. No warning. Justs sudden death. I think its one of those battery...
  9. O

    Solved! Mistakenly deleted nforce nvidia

    I was cleaning my registry from virus last night and restarted it. After restarting the windows couldn't boot up past the loading screen. I tried removing the battery holding the power button for 30 seconds and doing it again. (obviously didn't work). I could not get into the safe mode through...
  10. R

    Acer Aspire E5-575G-57D4 No Bootable Device

    I have an Acer Aspire E5-575G laptop. Intel I5, Nvidia 940mx, 256 SSD, 8gb ddr4. Finding specific info for this device is hard, seems kinda rare, so here I am. I am receiving a No Bootable Device error message when trying to start it. Numerous different attempts listed below, simplified. Tying...
  11. D

    Solved! Laptop wont boot up..

    My dell laptop is not booting... Om this started yesterday.. My pc was frozen on startup.. So i waited almost 40min but no luck.. So I took off the battery re inserted it.... Then started having a problem encountered a problem communicating with a device connected to your computer, no...
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    Solved! Can only use my Lenovo W520 in safe mode

    Lenovo ThinkPad W520 Intel I7-2720QM Windows 7 Professional 64bit 16 gb RAM Seagate HD 500gb mechanical (original) Nvidia Quadro 2000m Last Thursday night, I left my computer on for a few hours while I attended an event. When I returned, I found that my machine was frozen. In the lower right...
  13. B

    Solved! ASUS laptop black screen booting problem

    Hi. Last night, I was downloading and installing a game and accidentally unplugged the power supply and my laptop turned off because of poor battery life. After I tried booting again, it was showing me a black screen (monitor is turned off) and I was unable to turn it on since. I removed the...
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    ASUS ROG G703GM Fails to boot, let alone post. No battery indicator when plugged in.

    Symptoms: Failure to boot or post. No indication of a power source. No battery indicator when plugged in. Symptoms started about half a day ago. I stayed up til' 4am merrily playing games instead of writing a final. Plugged in my phone to charge, set the alarm and went to bed. Woke up to an...
  15. F

    Solved! asus laptop blank screen after cleaning

    Hey.ive just cleaned my k43sa laptop.i removed keyboard and dvd & hdd & ram. then installed all.after turning on , screen stays blank, keyboard won't work, fan is on,dvd drive is on,and all the LEDs are dead but the power.what should i do?please help
  16. T

    Laptop only boots after taking battery out holding power button and repeating a few times. **HELP**

    So.. A couple of days ago I went to boot my laptop ( Asus X552C ) and the screen was black (didn't show the normal Asus boot logo) but their was a back light on fans powered up lights came on ect. . I gave it a few minutes and nothing happened, so I tried the usual unplug all devices and try...
  17. D

    Needed: Creative Approach To Fixing A Simple Problem

    Recently my hdd went bad. Replaced with ssd with intent of clean install (mint). USB ports have not worked for quite some time and thus rufus and or netbootin aren't of use. (USB ports work intermittently at best... able to load free dos) DVD drive works, but will not boot bootable CDs. BIOS...
  18. T

    Solved! Windows installation problems

    Sorry if this is in the wrong thread never used this before, I have a dell insprion 15 laptop, I recently cleaned the drive fully. Since this takes several hours I let it run over night while I slept, I woke up in the morning and a screen had popped up mentioning pdf files files. Me being half...
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    Solved! Dell XPS L502x Laptop stuck on Dell logo on startup

    My Dell laptop has developed a problem where it refuses to go past the Dell logo as shown here. It just hangs on this screen until the power switch is pressed to turn it off. I’ve tried the following to try and fix this: ■ Taking the power cable and battery out, then holding the power button...
  20. P

    Solved! Phone starts but the screen has static backlight

    Yesterday night i power-off my phone as usual before going bed. Today morning when i tried to open my phone the manufacturer logo showing up but after that screen stays black with a static backlight. So android system not booting up. Screen is not broken i can say because manufacturer logo...