Boot Up Mystery!!

[adw1705]

I have put a new h/drive and reinstalled windows vista, all seems ok BUT....when the laptop boots, just before the load screen appears, to get it to boot any further I have to press enter, or one of the other keys!

This happen just as the microsoft corporation and the load icon appears...

If anyone could help I could use the advise - model no is VGN-NS30E

Thank you in advance

Andy..

let me also say thank you for the help I recieved the other day, I felt a real div but now know where to look for the model no

Message was edited by: adw1705

[adw1705]

Quick update..... Just before the microsoft screen starts to appear, a clicking noise comes out of the speaker!

Its not the hard drive cos I made sure before posting this.

One other thing, when everything is loaded, if you try to open one of the d/top icons, it only wants to open the bottom icon of the list!

If you then use the arrow keys to go up and highlight various other icons, it will then srat to work!

I think this laptop is possessed

Andy..

[rich912]

Hi Andy,

Does this also happen in safe mode?

Rich

[adw1705]

Errrr, no it didnt do it when booting in safe mode..

[rich912]

In that case I suspect that the system is working overtime after normal boot while trying to sort out a driver or service problem.

As suggested previously - try the selective startup troubleshooting procedure.

You could also have a look in Device Manager for any problem devices - they will have a yellow bang warning symbol .

Rich

[adw1705]

Will do, thanks again for all your help

Andy..