Computer Locked - Windows 7 Won't Boot Up After Hard Shut Down

Mar 1, 2011

I was waking up one morning to get a quiz done before my Computer Science class. I like to think I'm pretty proficient. But when my computer was going really slow, and eventually locked up, I was forced to do a hard shutdown. Unfortunately, when I went to load it up, it loaded the BIOS, and then it goes to load Windows and poof. Starting windows pops up, but the windows icon never pops up. After about 5-10 minutes, my computer will restart.

Alright, so the first general action is to boot into Safe Mode, but this doesn't work either. I try to boot it up and the greyish screen with "Loading Windows Files." at the top and "Please Wait..." at the bottom. It stops there. Nothing loads up, it just stops. So, I hard reset it again, and THIS time, it says " Startup Repair. " So, I think to myself, this should fix the problem. I load up the startup repair. Loading Windows Files works, then it looks like its loading up and then BAM!

Black screen with a white cursor. SO! I have read up on this error quite a bit, but unfortunately, most of them happen before log in. They say to Ctr+Alt+Del into task manager. I don't have that option because the ctrl alt del doesn't work. So, I break down and try and load up the recovery console from my USB drive that I have on boot. All that does is mimic trying to do startup repair.

Performance
PROCESSOR
Intel Core i7-740QM processor

OPERATING SYSTEM
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit)

GRAPHICS ENGINE
NVIDIA GeForce 310M

GRAPHICS MEMORY*
2270MB total: 512MB GDDR3 discrete memory + up to 1758MB shared memory w/NVIDIA TurboCache technology

Memory and Storage
MEMORY*
4GB DDR3 memory

HARD DRIVE*
640GB HDD (5400rpm)

OPTICAL DRIVE*
DVD-SuperMulti (+/-R double layer) with Labelflash drive
Audio and Video

DISPLAY SIZE
16.0" widescreen

DISPLAY TYPE*
HD TruBrite - LED Backlit display

DISPLAY RESOLUTION
Supports 720p content, 16:9 aspect ratio, 1366x768 (HD)

AUDIO
Harman/kardon - stereo speakers, Headphone jack (stereo), Microphone jack (mono), Built-in microphone

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