- Oct 16, 2020
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I have a cheap Acer Aspire laptop I keep in the event my main rig ever goes down unexpectedly, and to hook up to the television. It's very lightly used. Hardly any hours on it. Maybe a 1,000 at the most.
Windows prompted me for an update, so I pressed Restart and Update and let it do its thing. In the middle of the update it said something went wrong and "reversed all changes." Okay. I went back to watching television on the laptop and it suddenly crashed. A crash I've never experienced. Screen went green and static-ey with that old white noise TV sound, then shut down.
I turned it back on.. and well, here I am:
When I press the power button, the Acer screen comes on, then for half a second a command prompt box appears and disappears, then it flashes to the windows update screen for less than a second, then the screen goes black, then it goes back to the Acer screen. I left it on for hours and it continued the loop.
F8 doesn't work. Hard shut downs over and over don't produce Recovery Mode. Shift power on/off does nothing. I ran the battery all the way down to zero, took the battery out, (I had to unscrew the bottom.) I've done everything but put a backup of Windows on a flashdrive. I'll try it, but how would I boot it up?
Again:
Acer screen --> flash of the command prompt box --> flash of updating --> black screen --> Acer screen
This is not the looping update problem that is fixed with recovery mode or safe mode. I cannot for the life of me get into either of those. I'd hate for it to be a hardware issue, but I've never experienced a crash like that.
Windows prompted me for an update, so I pressed Restart and Update and let it do its thing. In the middle of the update it said something went wrong and "reversed all changes." Okay. I went back to watching television on the laptop and it suddenly crashed. A crash I've never experienced. Screen went green and static-ey with that old white noise TV sound, then shut down.
I turned it back on.. and well, here I am:
When I press the power button, the Acer screen comes on, then for half a second a command prompt box appears and disappears, then it flashes to the windows update screen for less than a second, then the screen goes black, then it goes back to the Acer screen. I left it on for hours and it continued the loop.
F8 doesn't work. Hard shut downs over and over don't produce Recovery Mode. Shift power on/off does nothing. I ran the battery all the way down to zero, took the battery out, (I had to unscrew the bottom.) I've done everything but put a backup of Windows on a flashdrive. I'll try it, but how would I boot it up?
Again:
Acer screen --> flash of the command prompt box --> flash of updating --> black screen --> Acer screen
This is not the looping update problem that is fixed with recovery mode or safe mode. I cannot for the life of me get into either of those. I'd hate for it to be a hardware issue, but I've never experienced a crash like that.
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