I have an HP dv9000 running Vista Home Premium.
Here's the deal, for some reason my laptop is stuck in a continuous reboot cycle. It doesn't even give time for the splash screen to come up, nor the Windows logo screen. The ONLY way I can break this cycle is if I manually hold down the power button in the middle of one of the reboots. Then, when I power it back on, it lets me log in and whatnot. This is EVERY time that I turn my computer off or restart.
I found no solution to this, so last night I decided to do a complete system restore. I restored everything to the original factory settings. It was great, everything worked fine. Even my wifi which wasn't working began to work again. Then, I decided to run Windows Update. I chose to update the "Important" ones. This took a very long time, considering there were about 80-some-odd-number of updates. I went to bed. When I woke up this morning and tried to turn on my laptop, it began the continuous reboot cycle again.
Because of this, I'm almost certain that it has to do with a Windows Update. However, I don't know which one. I've ran a complete system restore again, but I'm afraid to install any Windows Updates.
Are there any suggestions as to which updates might be causing this? Any suggestions as to what may be causing this if it's not an update. Any suggestions as to what I could do?
Please, let me know if I need to provide more information. Thank you.
****UPDATE****
I stand corrected. After this second time around, I tried restarting, and the computer had the same issue. It began the reboot cycle, but eventually started up just fine.
Here's the deal, for some reason my laptop is stuck in a continuous reboot cycle. It doesn't even give time for the splash screen to come up, nor the Windows logo screen. The ONLY way I can break this cycle is if I manually hold down the power button in the middle of one of the reboots. Then, when I power it back on, it lets me log in and whatnot. This is EVERY time that I turn my computer off or restart.
I found no solution to this, so last night I decided to do a complete system restore. I restored everything to the original factory settings. It was great, everything worked fine. Even my wifi which wasn't working began to work again. Then, I decided to run Windows Update. I chose to update the "Important" ones. This took a very long time, considering there were about 80-some-odd-number of updates. I went to bed. When I woke up this morning and tried to turn on my laptop, it began the continuous reboot cycle again.
Because of this, I'm almost certain that it has to do with a Windows Update. However, I don't know which one. I've ran a complete system restore again, but I'm afraid to install any Windows Updates.
Are there any suggestions as to which updates might be causing this? Any suggestions as to what may be causing this if it's not an update. Any suggestions as to what I could do?
Please, let me know if I need to provide more information. Thank you.
****UPDATE****
I stand corrected. After this second time around, I tried restarting, and the computer had the same issue. It began the reboot cycle, but eventually started up just fine.
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