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Sunibla
Win 10 Pro, installed a few days ago (clean install over another, fabulous, operating system, Windows 7 Pro) and running fine after installing and using some apps (SQL Server 17, Visual Studio 19,). Last night, downloaded updates and requested restart. I re-started and went to bed. This morning, I found the screen was blank with no DVI message. Turned machine off and on after a period: same no DVI message. On third or fourth try, Windows logo appears on screen and a twirling working cursor (no message menu, or percentage counter). After a few minutes, the working cursor freezes. After an hour or so I gave up and tried again: had to go through the same series of three or four re-starts before seeing the Window icon and having the process freeze after a few minutes (or at least the cursor freeze). I presume that three or four restarts may be the Windows 10 Auto-repair process, but again, if so, there is no menu shown before the working cursor comes up.
I cannot or do not know how to get to bios or do a safe start under Windows 10 since there is no menu or anything on start up before the working cursor. I have an iso on CD but my computer bios I guess is not set to check the CD/DVD first since it didn't attempt to load from the CD and I can't get to the bios to change anything there..
Online, I can not find any working solutions short of opening my computer and moving/disconnecting hardware parts I never heard of (yeah, right).
Someone in an online post somewhere on a similar update issue suggested let it sit, it took them overnight for an update, but I don't know if they saw the stuck working cursor or not. And anyway, hours and hours for an update? Right now it is running frozen again, and certainly won't stop it until I have some reasonable solution to try. Is waiting many hours or a day with a frozen cursor really a possible suggestion?
This just can't be possible that there is not a way to get to bios or reboot in safe mode in a stuck Windows 10 short of replacing a hard drive or other hardware, right? Am I crazy? I have an SSD start up drive and a second hard drive on the machine.
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I cannot or do not know how to get to bios or do a safe start under Windows 10 since there is no menu or anything on start up before the working cursor. I have an iso on CD but my computer bios I guess is not set to check the CD/DVD first since it didn't attempt to load from the CD and I can't get to the bios to change anything there..
Online, I can not find any working solutions short of opening my computer and moving/disconnecting hardware parts I never heard of (yeah, right).
Someone in an online post somewhere on a similar update issue suggested let it sit, it took them overnight for an update, but I don't know if they saw the stuck working cursor or not. And anyway, hours and hours for an update? Right now it is running frozen again, and certainly won't stop it until I have some reasonable solution to try. Is waiting many hours or a day with a frozen cursor really a possible suggestion?
This just can't be possible that there is not a way to get to bios or reboot in safe mode in a stuck Windows 10 short of replacing a hard drive or other hardware, right? Am I crazy? I have an SSD start up drive and a second hard drive on the machine.
Continue reading...