Maybe I was distracted, maybe I was so comfortable with constant windows updates and the smoothness that my new PC was running for the past two months since I purchased it that I was lulled out of cautionary awareness into complacent dullness, whatever, but I clicked OK without a second thought.
"All done, you need to restart your machine," it prompted happily after a minute of work.
Computer shuts down, computer starts, power light comes on, internal fan spins...
And nothing else.
No beeps, no POST, no BIOS.
She's dead, Jim.
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| As much computing power as my PC has. |
Now I'm entering the long torturous process of manufacturer tech support and product returns.
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I had my Win10 set to automatically install updates. Back on 19 December it did so in the middle of the night and rebooted... and I woke up to find my pcv stuck in a reboot loop.
ReplyDeleteFortunately, I made a Win10 recovery USB stick so I was able to boot to that and do a system restore to before the update was installed, then turn off automatic updates.
Last night, it asked me if it could install the update again. I figured "why not?" and told it to do so at 3 am. And I woke up this morning to find it back in that boot loop. system restore didn't work this time, though, so....... I reset windows and while it saved my data, I'm going to need to reinstall things tonight when I get home from work. Assuming it's booting into Windows again when I get home tonight. It was still in process of the reset this morning when I had to leave.
Bad news :(.
ReplyDeleteHope you get it fixed soon.
I had a pretty good ASUS laptop for Eve (18") and since had an Alienware, which I've passed on to my sons. I now have a new Sky X9 from Eurocom (eurocom.com) out of Ottawa.
ReplyDeleteSadly, the new screen is only 17" diagonal, not 18"