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Computer freezes at Starting Windows screen everytime.
Okay so in May I went to turn my computer on like normal and it went to the starting windows and stayed there for 5 minutes which I found weird I quickly shut it off then turned it back on, I waited 10 minutes and the fan got really loud and really hot then shut itself off. The computer was normal just hours before this.
I ended up taking the computer apart, cleaning the fan thinking the fan was dirty, then it wouldn't come back on at all. So I left it alone saying I was gonna find a computer place and take it there but I got sidetracked. My husband gave the computer to my dad a few weeks ago and my dad got it to come back on turns out the power plug wasn't plugged in from where I had took it apart. Well it comes back on but low and behold, it still freezing at "starting windows" just like before I took it apart. It will start normally but when it gets to the "starting windows" screen it stays there for about 5-10 minutes, the fan gets really loud, then it shut offs. I'm not sure whats wrong with it. I have some pictures in it that haven't been backed up so I can't do anything that will lose files. I thought it was the fan because it had shut off before when it got overheated, but my grandma's computer fan is broke and her computer works normal, it just shuts off if it gets too hot, and I've had to replace a fan in other computers and it would just shut off, not freeze at the same place no matter what.
Its a HP laptop and has windows 7. Also I'm not hugely computer smart so please speak english when answering.