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Windows update longer than normal, PC won't start afterwards.
Yesterday evening (wednesday 14 Januari 2015) a few updates were downloaded for my PC. As I shut it down for the evening it wanted to install 6 updates. Normally this takes a minute or so and it's done. This time it stayed for a while on update 1 of 6. Instead of waiting for them to be done and turning off the power I decided to let it update while I went to sleep.
This morning the PC was shut down. When I tried to start it up again it just hummed a bit, didn't show anything on the screen and then shut off again, only to turn itself on again in an infinite loop.
Thinking it might be stopped by draining the energy, I shut it down completely by holding the power button. Then took the power out and activated it so it would use up all remaining power in the system (the lights flashed for a moment and went off). Then I turned the power on again and tried to start the PC, but I got the same results as before.
The PC itself wasn't showing any signs of problems before the update. I was playing a game (planetside 2) with unstable servers that sometimes would hog my internet connection so much during a lag spike that all internet traffic from my PC stopped momentarily.
The PC has been cleaned a few weeks ago and is still reasonably clean right now.
I have looked around at the usual support forums but did not find a way to get to the repair functions from where I'm at. My only option as I could see would be to use a repair CD which I don't have. Maybe I have a backup on an external drive but that drive is currently not nearby and it might take time before I can get it back.
Can anyone help me?