Emma Posted August 1, 2015 Report Share Posted August 1, 2015 (edited) More issues with my laptop but not a big one this time. Using a g62 HP laptop running windows 7 ATM. When I power on it works as normal until its trying to run windows then I get a blank screen for around 1 minute before it finally starts running windows. No problems once it's up and running but that blank screen beforehand is a bit concerning and a right pain the bum. Anyone got any ideas whether it could be a hardware issue or windows start up causing the problem? Edit: here's the video to show what's happening. https://youtu.be/pPUxI7jXv8s Edited August 1, 2015 by Emma Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robke Posted August 1, 2015 Report Share Posted August 1, 2015 No idea LOL... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emma Posted August 1, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 1, 2015 (edited) Lol. At least it's working. Better then last time when part of the motherboard went belly up. Will have to get a new one eventually but I like this one, it suits me perfectly. Don't really want another one just yet. Edited August 1, 2015 by Emma Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robke Posted August 1, 2015 Report Share Posted August 1, 2015 as long as it works it is all good imo... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Posted August 1, 2015 Report Share Posted August 1, 2015 Hmmmmm I smell conspiricy. The day after windows 10 is launched all other versions of Windows start to play up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulG Posted August 1, 2015 Report Share Posted August 1, 2015 ok lets see, Run defragmenter and scandisk run virus check go to https://www.safer-networking.org/ and get spybot install and run check and use immuniser, it will probably find a lot of temp files say yes to removing them its always left over junk. next check how many programs you have running at start up and installed to taskbar many more than 6 and yes it will take ages to start and shutdown. things like skype Yim dropbox etc set to start when you select them not all the time. also check installed fonts many more than 70 or 80 can slow down the pc as well speed checking a pc or laptop would need me sat in front of it really but that lot should help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emma Posted August 1, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 1, 2015 Thanks Paul. I've done all of those things several times over, albeit using different programmes. The speed of windows when it's up and running is fine. It even launches quickly once it is has finally kicked into gear but it's this huge pause initially where it doesn't seem to be doing anything at all, doesn't even make the windows noise until its started launching. It's like it freezes for a while and then thinks "ok, I'll look for windows now and fire it up". Edit: I've taken a video of the start up. Will post it to the original post once YouTube has published it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulG Posted August 1, 2015 Report Share Posted August 1, 2015 (edited) it could be a BIOS setting, your laptop is set ti start from dvd usb before it looks at the hd. depending on your laptop you will have to press one of the Fkeys *read you machines manual* to find out which one or key combination is needed look for where it says start up and set it to hd first so the pause could be it looking at all the other drives and usb ports before it checks the hd Edited August 1, 2015 by PaulG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emma Posted August 1, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 1, 2015 Thank you Paul, that makes sense. I've had a bios issue before. I've forgotten what the two keys I need to press to sort it out but can look it up easily enough. I seem to remember last time that there was an irreparable issue and I had to reinstall the whole thing from scratch. I was up till 4am, lol. Hopefully not going to do that this time round. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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