whenever i turn on my laptop, it will show a blank screen for a very long time, and the welcome page will never appear. this started to happen after i used system recovery.
2007-06-17 15:29:43 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
After powering on, try pressing F1 or Del so that you could enter BIOS menu screen. If you could not even open BIOS menu, you might have a serious hardware problem. Otherwise, your problem could be with the hard disk or just the OS.
If you are using Win XP, try to repair it with this:
http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=189400897
If repair is not possible, your hard disk could be failing and could not load anything on the boot sector. Replace it and just use it as slave drive so that you may recover your files.
2007-06-17 16:47:55 · answer #1 · answered by Karz 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My first recommendation would be to when first starting your laptop up, press F2 and check your bios, make sure it is registering the hard drive and such properly. Make sure the system date and time are correct there also, if everything is ok, press F10 and save changes to reboot the machine. Now when the laptop starts rebooting again, press F8 to get the menu for safe mode startup. Highlight the option for Last Known Good Configuration and press enter. If the system still will not boot properly you might have corrupted windows files in your directory, you may either have to use your restore disk that may have come with the laptop, or if you have a windows disk matching your operating system, boot using that to attempt a repair. A windows disk during a repair attempt will attempt to correct any file that is corrupt, however, if it successfully repairs windows, you will have to go back and redo all the outstanding updates as it basically re-writes all the windows directory erasing all the update files previously installed. This part holds true also if you are use the system recovery disk that came with your laptop at purchase.
Depending on how long you wait for the welcome page to show up, usually fairly quickly, it might also be possible that you aborted a start up previously that was attempting to apply an update that required a reboot to finish the installation. If this is what happened, either of the options previously listed above should correct the issue as well. Just thought I would add this as a possibility.
2007-06-25 02:33:10 · answer #2 · answered by John S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You will need to install a clean OS, but first you will need to partition and format your hard disk.... Start by pressing F8 or F12 after you first turn it on and insert your Disk Manager CD in your CD-Rom.... When the screen ask for boot device use CD Drive..... The windows CD that came with the computer will check the hard disk for OS, so you will need to whip the disk clean.....
2007-06-23 23:29:13 · answer #3 · answered by dave_swafd 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where did use a system recovery disc if so where did you get it because it may have deleted important files so your computer doesn't run any more
2007-06-23 16:24:06 · answer #4 · answered by Owin 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
corrupted files or bad data in the registry, try to boot to safe more and se if you can do an earlier restore otherwise reload.
2007-06-17 22:34:04 · answer #5 · answered by Mortiki 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its not f1, its f2 for bios set up. try system restore
2007-06-22 06:00:06 · answer #6 · answered by eilisha19 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋