After seeing the bios logo tap F8 muliple times. Now you see a menu with "safe mode", last known good configuration etc. Do you also see "repair your computer"? Select it (just as test). Does that work or freeze or black screen? Try a few times.
My definition of recovery mode is pressing the f8 button so I can choose safe mode etc. Sorry if my terms confuse matters here.
Asus recovery partition has been deleted during clean install from Windows7 DVD. I have made ASUS recovery disks but i have not used it, instead i did clean install as mentioned earlier in my post.
Windows 7 Recovery does not seem to fix the problem in th first place, hence I proceeded with clean install.
Could it be hardware problem?
Do you have a win7 install DVD? Created a system repair disk already?
System Repair Disc - Create
cerate it please. Maybe we need it later in the proces
Windows Repair Disc has been created. I have used this disc before hoping I didnt have to do clean install but it didnt solve the same problem.
Obviously, clean install still doesnt solve the problem. What shall we try next? I have created new Windows RepairDisc just now
and yes, I have Windows 7 install DVD.
Correct? A reboot is actually a shutdwon and a normal boot afterwards. So what could be the cause of all this. hmmm....
- Normal boot jumps to win7 recovery in about 50% of cases
- reboot works ALWAYS
A normal boot powers on the laptop and disks, gpu etc... uses a lot of power. This doesn't happen on reboot.
Test this.
Repeat this sequence a few times until you have the problem. Or doesn't the problem appear at all now?
- shutdown and power off
- Wait 5 seconds. power on
- Press F8 on boot so you see the advanced boot options.
- Wait 1 minute
- Select "start windows normally"
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