bad windows update

Hello guys. I have a laptop with windows seven home basic installed on it. When it was shutting down, it was installing some updates first. I did not give it time to install the updates and press the power button to force it to shut down. Now when I press the power button on my laptop, I cannot see anything on the screen. I just hear a slight internal activity for sometimes but the screen remains black and then the power button keeps flashing. Any help please? Thank you

hmm.

Do you have a Windows install disc?

Very well could be... who knows?

Maybe he made a habit of a hard boot down. Not a very good thing to do in general, let alone while Windows is installing updates.

That message that almost fills the screen.. "Please don't shut down Windows is installing updates" is pretty hard to miss.

I wouldn't be surprised if it's time to start over with a fresh install of Windows.

electrotune1200 said:

hmm.

Do you have a Windows install disc?

Yes I do have one. Thank you for replying

myzr7 said:

Clocker Welcome to SevenForums, Are you plugged in with your power adapter cord? Could be the battery. Did you try removing the battery and waiting a few then put it back in? Try pressing f8 rapidly after pushing the power button to get a screen for safe mode or other types of boot. Good luck to you and let us know what you have tried so far.

Thank you for welcoming me myzr7. I already tried powering without the battery. Same problem. Any more advice?

bigmck said:

clocker said:

Hello guys. I have a laptop with windows seven home basic installed on it. When it was shutting down, it was installing some updates first. I did not give it time to install the updates and press the power button to force it to shut down. Now when I press the power button on my laptop, I cannot see anything on the screen. I just hear a slight internal activity for sometimes but the screen remains black and then the power button keeps flashing. Any help please? Thank you

As was said above, press F8 and try to get into Safe Mode. If you can, try to do a System Restore to a point before the updates. Let us know how things are going.

Thank you. I will also try that but I doubt putting the windows cd or pressing keys like F8 will work as it's like the laptop is in a sleep mode state. I power it on and the screen remains black and the power button keeps flashing. By the way it's a compaq presario laptop

Dude, your not supposed to force shutdown when it tells you not to!

IT's not a hardware problem. He said when he force shutdown (When he wasn'te supposed to) the screen went blank when he turned it on. So there for, the problem is within the system. If I were you, I would reinstall windows.

Love Windows 7 said:

I think that could be a hardware problem.