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Laptop stuck in cycle of startup and BSOD
Before this problem occured, my laptop was shut down properly and left overnight, not plugged in, as is every night.
When I tried to turn on my laptop (Lenovo 5670, 64BIT, Windows 7) in the morning the screen was on (slightly lit) but no more happened. The mouse cursor was there and I think I could move it (not quite sure anymore).
After leaving this for 10 or so minutes, I pressed the power button on the laptop. As you know, if the computer is running, to get it to shut down you have to press and hold the power button. This time, I only pressed it and it immediately shut down.
I gave it some time before pressing the power button again to switch it on.
On the windows error recovery page, I selected the option 'Launch Start Up Repair (Recommended)'.
It took about 15 minutes to complete this task and I selected 'Finish' upon completion; I did not read what the note said before clicking 'Finish'. Careless mistake yes.
The laptop then continued to switch itself on and, at that point, if not interrupted by pressing the power button, will continue this cycle:
Screen 1. NORMAL: Initial start up screen with black background and Lenovo logo, Insyde H2 Bios logo, Intel logo, option: Press [F2] for setup, option: Press [F12] for boot device selection menu. I tried both F2 and F12 but couldn't see an option which would help. I tried the three different start up options on the F12 option but the same cycle occured.
Screen 2. NORMAL: Continues to Windows start up screen with black background and windows animation with "Starting windows" written underneath. Small case copyright Microsoft Corporation at bottom.
Screen 3. BSOD: see photograph below.
DETAILS
- fbfmon.sys
- PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA
- STOP: 0x00000050 (0xFFFFFA8137446BDA, 0x0000000000000000, 0xFFFFF88001AB2301, 0x0000000000000005)
- fbfmon.sys - Address 0xFFFFF88001AB2301 base at FFFFF88001AAD000, DateStamp 4cecddf1
Attachment 347429
ADDITIONAL INFO IF RELEVANT.
- I cannot find a safe mode or start up repair option as you would usually get because the start up process never gets past Screen 2.
- F8 at any stage of start up has no effect.
- No external hard drives are connected to the computer.
- Nothing happened out of the ordinary during last session usage.
- I have not updated windows or downloaded any software or hardware recently.
- Windows did an update a few weeks ago.
- Antivirus (Avast, free version) has not warned of any threats
- Laptop has been very slow in start up past few months. Most likely unrelated. Internal hard drive does not have much free space (a few GBs)
- Laptop is three/four years old