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Laptop in constant initial boot splash screen
My wife's Dell Inspiron was giving her fits. Most of it, I assumed was Windows was trying to install updates. I installed what was there and then started doing maintenance. I ran Jet Clean, SpyBot, and then updated AVG Free. I then ran a full scan; she hadn't run one since June. I discovered 10 Trojans and had them removed. I was doing all of this while running on battery power. It was getting low, so I went upstairs to get the power adapter. When I came down, the battery was done... red light came on, it beeped and shut down. I attempted to power back on. Now it goes through the Dell splash screen with the F2 & F12 options, then acts like the power was cut and does it again... a continuous loop. It's been doing it for the past half hour. I do not have the restore disks and cannot seem to get to the place where I can restore to another point, prior to today. Any ideas as to what can be done to fix it?