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sorry for the length XD
ok, had a call from a friend to say the laptop aint working.
They claim they did an update to flash last night (i assume this is 10.1), and upon completion the laptop froze.
now when i try to boot it up, it posts, shows the windows loading screen, and displays a black screen with the mousr pointer showing (i can move it around). If i wait for about half an hour, the login screen eventually appears, and after logging in, it returns to this blank screen with mouse and nothing happens (no HD activity).
whilst my work is ongoing, i thought id post it here to see if someone has an obvious fix. so far, it freezes upon booting into safemode, and its running a startup repair off the disk as we speak.
laptop is a dell studio 17 from jan 09 ish (2ghz core 2, 3gigs ram, 320gig hdd, hd3650, vista premium).
im not sure if this flash installation is the culprit, but it sounds likely.
edit: update. startup repair fixed the booting issues, but now im greeted with mcaffee spazzing out, and windows errors like Mcshell.exe and hh.exe have become corrupt, please run chkdsk utility. i am doing so, and its seems to be throwing up a lots of errors/bad sectors etc. Im wondering if some kinda virus has worked its way on there.
the plot thickens...
ok, had a call from a friend to say the laptop aint working.
They claim they did an update to flash last night (i assume this is 10.1), and upon completion the laptop froze.
now when i try to boot it up, it posts, shows the windows loading screen, and displays a black screen with the mousr pointer showing (i can move it around). If i wait for about half an hour, the login screen eventually appears, and after logging in, it returns to this blank screen with mouse and nothing happens (no HD activity).
whilst my work is ongoing, i thought id post it here to see if someone has an obvious fix. so far, it freezes upon booting into safemode, and its running a startup repair off the disk as we speak.
laptop is a dell studio 17 from jan 09 ish (2ghz core 2, 3gigs ram, 320gig hdd, hd3650, vista premium).
im not sure if this flash installation is the culprit, but it sounds likely.
edit: update. startup repair fixed the booting issues, but now im greeted with mcaffee spazzing out, and windows errors like Mcshell.exe and hh.exe have become corrupt, please run chkdsk utility. i am doing so, and its seems to be throwing up a lots of errors/bad sectors etc. Im wondering if some kinda virus has worked its way on there.
the plot thickens...
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