Starting Completely With Last Known Good Configuration
Oct 17, 2009
have a hp dv6000z with a new hard drive in it. decided to run the hard drive diagnostics through the bios. after doing so windows would hang at the loading the background screen.did a restart and pressed F8 and selected last known good configuration. computer started up fine. restarted it and let it boot normally and hung at the same place it did before.did this several times and will only start completely when selecting last known good configuration. decided to go a system restore to two days ago when computer was starting up fine and it hung at the same screen. again did last known good configuration and it started up fine.obviously dont want to have to press F8 and select last known good configuration every time I start machine.
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