You mention the automatic repair loop. Is this Windows automatic repair, or a Lenovo one? If it’s the former then Windows is trying to load, so yo ushould be able to get into Safe Mode by hitting the F8 key before Windows starts. If the latter, then you need to get into the system settings (probably by pressing the F2 at startup, though these things vary); from here you’ll be able to run diagnostics on the system.
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I’m a bastard when it comes to other people’s computer problems anyway. Rest assured that if I had an instant answer for Barry, he would have it. Judging from his original TSW thread, he’d ignore all advice and do something else anyway.
I’m probably being a bit harsh on him as I have family members that do the same thing.
e.g.
“Do you think I should do this inadvisable thing?”
“Er no. Don’t do it. No matter what”
(six months later)
“I did that inadvisable thing anyway! Can you get me out of all the shit it has caused?”
Grr.
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Just dropped it off at the tech shop where I found a helpful chap in a rain man sort of way, hard drive failure or windows screwed, he’ll call this afternoon, I let the lads on here know el pronto as I know they’ll be up the walls with worry.
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Is it fixed yet Barry??
FWIW sometimes it can be very hard to trouble shoot a problem unless you have the actual bit of kit in front of you! Fowllyd mentioned F2 to get into BIOS but it could quite equally be F5 or Del or F10, until you see the splash screen on the laptop you ain’t gonna know.
And saying “Drop into BIOS” or “Drop into Safe Mood” to those that don’t know the vernacular can be equally as frustraing to both sides.
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The f keys ie f8 etc etc doesn’t work on this.
Plug a keyboard in.
The blue screen of death this is sometimes known as, I can get bios from the lenovo button but go into the automatic repair loop, it’s goosed.
Have you actually searched for this problem online, Bazzington? There are normally plenty of other people that will have encountered, and perhaps solved the problems you are experiencing.
Stop trolling pap! His laptop’s fucked!
I love Lenovo’s, my Yoga 3 is a masterful piece of kit…
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I have had a Lenovo for three years and it works like a dream. But then I am not Barry.
Yeah, I wouldn’t be a fan of their setup at all. Typical overbearing vendor filling up your machine that you neither want nor need. One of their handy “setup” programs was a huge security hole.