not sure what is going on

jssc2

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hi, im writing this on behalf of my friend - basically he was using his laptop normally, he has msn, facebook and itunes open - he left the room and came back about half an hour later - when he moved the cursor to click on msn and his screen turned blue with a small white bird on the right hand side. he couldn't do anything, pressed ctrl alt delete and again nothing happened. so he turned it on and off again and the same blue screen came up straight away before he could get into his user account. after a few more attempts at turning on and off the laptop suddenly started a 'startup repair'. my friend didn't tell it to do this and it has spent over 2 hours doing this now. we'd be grateful if anyone could tell us what is going on - what happened in the first place and if the laptop is 'fixing' itself? as you might be able to tell neither of us know much about computers so dumbing down would be helpful haha! thank you!
 

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OS
windows 7
Machine make model and type plus OS system information will be needed
 

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Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
IBM 8291-E2U ; 9120-CTO ; 4061-BL2
OS
Windows 7 32 bit and 64 bit Professional
CPU
Intel Pentium 4 ; AMD SEMPRON 3600+
Memory
2.5GB ; 4GB
Graphics Card(s)
NVIDIA GS8400
Monitor(s) Displays
HP W2207
It sounds like the laptop manufacturers recovery program has launched... ;)
 

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Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Custom built machine
OS
W7 x64
CPU
Intel Q9300 2.5Ghz Quad LGA775 (Would like Q9650)
Motherboard
Gigabyte GA-EP45T-UD3R (F6 Bios)
Memory
4Gb OCZ Gold 1,333Mhz
Graphics Card(s)
Palit HD4850 O/C Sonic 512Mb DDR3, Dual DViD's
Sound Card
Azalia to twin Samson 50w Studio Monitors
Monitor(s) Displays
Twin Dell (E-IPS) U2311H 23.6" Screens
Screen Resolution
1920 x 1080 @ 60Hz
Hard Drives
Crucial M4 SSD, archives on twin Western Digital Caviar Black WD2002FAEX, 2TB, 7200rpm HDD's, Samsung Ritemaster CD/DVD Burner...
PSU
OCZ 600w
Case
Lian-Li PC8 acoustifoamed' aluminium tower
Cooling
Scythe 140mm Zipang
Keyboard
Cherry PS/2 custom model
Mouse
Lenovo USB laser "Thinkpad" Mouse
Internet Speed
ADSL2+ @14Mbps downstream & Cat6 Gigabit Ethernet
Antivirus
NOD32
Browser
Opera
Other Info
Silicon Dust HD Homerun Dual FTA (Ethernet) TV Tuners, Dray Tek Vigor 2850Vn router and 8x HP Gigabit Switch. Lian-Li CR26 Card Reader, Canon MF4430 iSensys laser printer/scanner.
Sounds like he picked up a nastie from Facebook... boot into safemode, do a scan with your a/v ... try doing a system restore.. if none of these work, insert the installation dvd and do a repair install... you know what the next step is...
 

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Computer type
PC/Desktop
Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
LENOVO K450 @3.0GHZ
OS
64-bit Windows 8.1 Pro
CPU
Core(TM) i5 CPU 4330 Haswell @ 3.20GHz
Motherboard
LENOVO
Memory
12.00 GB
Graphics Card(s)
Intel(R) HD Graphics
Sound Card
Intel HD integtrated
Monitor(s) Displays
HP 25' ISP Monitor
Screen Resolution
1900/1020
Hard Drives
(1) ST1000DM003-1CH162 (2) Generic STORAGE DEVICE USB Device (3) Generic STORAGE DEVICE USB Device
Internet Speed
100mb down/10mb up
thank you tews! ahh facebook the bane of my life - i'll let him know your advice. :)
 

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OS
windows 7
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