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re: My computer can't do a cold boot, but works fine if I leave it on.
Wednesday, October 3, 2007 at 4:28 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ricer46
(20106 messages posted)
It's not a software issue.
On Wednesday, October 3, 2007 at 8:39 am, Gil Sery wrote:
>My computer works fine if I leave it on for weeks on end and just restart every
few
>days or so. However, when I shit it off and try to do a cold boot, it acts like
it
>can't find the hard drive.
>
>The only workaround I have found to this problem is this: I drive to my nearest
Geek
>Squad location, talk to the salesman, take my computer back home without having
had
>it fixed, plug everything back in, and it boots up wonderfully. The whole process
>takes about an hour. How this works, I have no idea, but it does as I have done
it
>three or four times now.
>
>I tried unplugging everything while at home and just leaving the computer off for
>an hour, and then plugging everything back in, but that didn't work as I still had
>the same problem. Also, PC-cillin 2007 does not detect any boot viruses.
>
>Any suggestions as to what I should do about this would be greatly appreciated.
I
>don't even know if it's a boot isue, a software issue, or a hardware issue.
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