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Problem Starting Laptop.....Takes 1 1/2 hours to boot up
Hey folks I have an old laptop, it is 4.5 years old and has basically never let me down, we had a power outage about two weeks ago and I had some trouble restarting it up, I tried all kinds of F key combinations and such, but to no avail.
What happens is when I push the power button on the unit I can hear the fan come on for about 5 seconds and then it shuts off, but I can see the power light is on and I can hear noises coming from the HD, so I know its doing something, plust the screen stays blank. I messed with it for about half a day and finally just gave up on it and just figured to let it do its own thing and so I just pushed the power button and and set it aside. about an hour and a half later I open the laptop up and Voila! its working and booted up, works beautifully as well.
So I decide to see if the issues has been resolved and shut it down using Windows, I go to push the button again, and same thing....takes another hour and a half to start up.
The nest thing I try is to do a restart using windows, and it restarts beautifully, it just wont restart from a complete shutdown......
So, I figure Heck its working fine once the hour and a half is over, I have been using it for two weeks now without any issues whatsoever, just that I havent completely shut it down during that time.
Now that I have a little time on my hands I decided to see if I can trouble shoot it, does anyone here have any ideas?
It is an HP DV7 with AMD Turion Dual Core-Mobile RM-74 2.20 GHz, 8 gig RAM, 500 MB HD, Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit system