Inside Windows - Regular or Safe Mode repeatedly tap F8 as you boot. I clicked on that, they downloaded without a hitch, I was instructed to restart the system, which I did, and the system booted the next time without any difficulty. On a computer that is configured for booting to multiple operating systems, you can press the F8 key when the Boot Menu appears. . So, it fails on configuring updates, reverts and hangs, never booting normally. Select Command Prompt from the System Recovery Options. Sometimes you get the configuring failure, but this is usually just one or two of the 5-8 and will install the next cycle.
Every 3 days my laptop force updates, fails, reverts, gets stuck trying to revert. I have a desktop with Intel processor and Windows 7 Professional. It was trying to do 172 updates and i just let it go until it finished reverting like 3 hours. I have read all the fixes, but none addresses when the computer gets stuck in this state and cannot do anything even after I turn it off. Windows recognizes all 3 monitors, Linux only recognizes 2 of them.
Then just sat there, no hd activity, for an hour or so. To get to the advanced options menu hit F11 repeatedly upon start up of your computer. Windows was updating and was stuck at 35% for a number of hours. Id try repair start up in the advanced options menu. Once all the updates are installed, I proceeded to install Windows 8.
Turned off and reboot to safe mode. I think what you're seeing in this thread is that this symptom has many causes and thus has a variety of solutions depending upon what the original problem was. I turned the computer off via the switch. Would not reboot, totally unresponsive. Thus, this was a very simple fix and I doubt that it took over five minutes. I can do limited things in safe mode and I can have networking in safe mode. All I used my laptop for was my steam games and now its not even worth installing steam then my games just to have to redo it a few days later.
Let us know if it helps. In the end I got frustrated and just left it overnight. What to do if Windows won't start correctly StartUp Repair from Recovery Options or Windows 7 disk How to Run a Startup Repair in Windows 7 How to Boot to the System Recovery Options in Windows 7 How to Create a Windows 7 System Repair Disc How to Do a Repair Install to Fix Windows 7 Hope this helps. Remeber to put the services and startup back to normal. None of the Repair Computer things did anything. Do not turn off your computer.
Select System Restore from the System Recovery Options. Found a solution: Go into control panel, system and security, windows update, change settings to manually update. Please someone tell me step to step of what to do. I selected the updated in groups by their number starting with the lowest. I have to go through the process all over again. How to Run Disk Check in Windows 7 ---------------------------------------------------- For even better and more efficient checking : From the Command Prompt of the Recovery Console if you have one or from a Windows 7 disk - if you do not have a Windows 7 disk you can borrow a friend's it needs to be same 32 or 64 bit and they are not copy protected or make one.
. Otherwise, feel free to write us back and we will be glad to help you further. First, it was stuck at 100% complete for over an hour. Windows 7 recognized the video card, but Windows 8 did not. What if you turned it off and turned it back on? I have 3 monitors connected to the computer. Restart your computer and start pressing the F8 key on your keyboard.
However, hitting F8 doesn't seem to work. Reboots to normal mode and it hangs. Sure enough it eventually completed. It seemed to work for 5 minutes or so. Then 5hrs later I am back up and running for about 2days 3 if I'm lucky then the force update starts all over.
I tried to boot to Safe Mode, Safe Mode with Network, or Safe Mode with Command Prompt. I am having the same problem tried. Thank you Hello, I also have this problem. After that , choose the option to refresh your pc. The solution for this is refresh you pc by holding the F8 key while turn the pc on. Had about 105 updates or so that were installing at the same time.