Laptop boots up as normal and then freezes
I have a HP laptop and whenever I turn it on, it seems to boot up fine. All the icons appear on the screen. Then I try to click on any icon and nothing happens. I cannot access the start menu either. Its like everything is frozen.
I usually have to turn off and on the laptop about 6-8 times before it actually boots up and can work normal.
I have never had a problem like this and I am scared that my laptop is dying.
There could be a few different possible problems with your laptop.
First of all, this might be a software related problem. Test if your laptop freezes in Safe Mode. Turn on the laptop and press F8 as soon as HP logo appears on the screen, select Safe Mode from the menu. If the laptop freezes in normal mode but works fine in Safe Mode, most likely you have some kind of software related issue. I’m not going to troubleshoot any software related issues because it might take hours and bring no results. In this case backup all personal data from the hard drive and reinstall the operating system from the recovery disc.
If the laptop freezes even in Safe Mode, I would run diagnostic tests on the hard drive and memory. You can test the hard drive with Hitachi’s DFT test and memory with Memtest86+. Links to both utilities are located in “Useful Links” on the right side of the website.
If the hard drive fails to pass the test, replace the hard drive and reinstall the operating system.
If the memory fails to pass the test, replace the memory module.
Also, try removing the wireless card and modem one by one and run the laptop without them. A faulty wireless card can freeze up the whole system.
March 4th, 2008 at 9:46 am
I have an IBM thinkpad that freezes when I power it up. Sometimes it makes it all the way to the main screen but even then it locks up. I took the battery out and plugged it into the AC and everything works fine. Does this mean that the battery is bad and I should simply replace the battery or could something else be wrong? I dont want to spend the money on a new battery if its not the problem!
thanks,
March 4th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
Eric,
What if you unplug the AC adapter and run the laptop on the battery power? Will it freeze when the AC adapter is unplugged?
Did you test in Safe Mode? Will if freeze up in Safe Mode?
Do you know if the laptop freezes only in Windows? Access the BIOS setup menu and test your laptop in there. Will it freeze up while running the BIOS setup menu?
June 18th, 2008 at 2:21 am
Sir,first of all id like to congratz u for a great site.well,my problem is regarding a acer 5710 laptop.
first question is if i keep the laptop running for 24 hours on ac power will it harm mmy laptop in anyway by over heating or any other means ?
second problem is when i turn on my laptop,the ON indicator glows but there is no display ,not a word.i usually have to try 10-15 times to get my display on .
this problem started at first my display was freezed .mouse didnt move and keys didnt responded .at that time i was on AC power .
the above problem still persist. it sometimes workds sometimes not so everytime i open my laptop i have to pray for my luck.
Please kindly understand my problem and give your expert opinion .thanking you.
June 20th, 2008 at 11:53 am
I was on MSN with my friend and we were playing UNO on the IM.`Suddenly, my computer froze up but came back and the microphone we were talking on hung up. I tried calling her again but it gave me an error that the messanger wasn’t working. I exited out and tried to chat with her again. In the middle of typing my sentence, it froze again then closed all my MSN windows out. I tried to close out my internet that was up and it froze too. After that I became fed up and I turned it off. I then tried to turn it back on and it took longer to get past the WINDOWS loading bar. The backround came up and my cursor sat in the middle of the screen. I still would not load after and 3 times of turning it on and off with the same problem. I’m really scared that I killed yet another computer. Please help me or my Dad is going to be so mad!
June 24th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
First of all, what a great site.
You are my last hope as I have called Sony Vaio customer service and they are useless. I have a Vaio that is several years old running on Windows XP. Lately, even when in AC mode, after a few minutes idle the screen gets dim like it’s trying to save power. Then, about 50% of the time the cursor will freeze and I can only restart it by using the Windows key. After I reboot, it’s fine but the same thing keeps happening. Sony wants me to do a Bios Update but I am nervous to do something that radical. Any thoughts?
Thanks!
June 24th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
Stan W,
Actually, updating the BIOS is not that radical. If you follow the instructions, there should be any problem. It’s possible that your laptop has a know issue and Sony has a fix in the latest BIOS. If they suggest updating the BIOS, I would definitely try it, just make sure to follow the instructions.
That could be software or hardware related problem. You can try reinstalling the operating system first. Back up all personal files and run the recovery disc, it will reinstall everything back to factory defaults. If you still experience the same problem even after reimaging the hard drive, most likely you problem is hardware related.
July 6th, 2008 at 9:46 am
Hello,
My Toshiba A85-S710 freezes anytime I attempt to move the laptop. It boots perfectly, and works fine as long as its sitting stationary on a table. I’ve been reading some blogs on your website and others on the internet, and im wondering if something might be loose.
Do you have any suggestions??
Thanks!
July 17th, 2008 at 12:25 am
Great site! My wife recently purchased an HP dx6650us pavilion. Has had this problem from the beginning: On power up, everything goes fine until just after the Vista welcome screen. A black screen with nothing but the “pointer” comes next. This screen sometimes lasts for over a minute. You can move the pointer with the mouse, but there is no indication the PC is doing anything else. Then suddenly, the little circle appears next to pointer, and the desktop pops up! So its not locked up, just pauses. The weird thing is, this is about 60 to 70% of the time. Other times, black screen is a couple of seconds, then goes right to desktop. My concern is something is going bad already, and this will get worse. I have a lower dollar Lenovo I just purchased, and it runs much faster at startup, and is overall quicker. One other thing; this black screen has stayed on over 10 minutes one time, and my wife had to shut it down. When PC is put into sleep or hybernate, this does not happen at all. I’ve “pruned” all the start up programs I can, and ran an optimizer software. Laptop is 2 months old, what’s up? Thanks to all for any help.
August 2nd, 2008 at 3:14 am
Can you help please? I have a laptop that literally will only work when on your lap! It’s an HP6325 – when the a/c adapter is used unless the machine is actually sitting on your lap the pointer freezes and will not move. On your lap it works OK.
The machine is also pretty slow generally. I have tried to start in safe mode but can only go so far before it hangs.
Any suggestions welcomed, thanks, Mike
September 4th, 2008 at 1:09 am
Hi,
I have a similar problem with the original question poster.
I usually have to turn off and on the laptop about 6-8 times before it actually goes to BIOS. If I make a change on BIOS it freezes, sometimes it lets me save it and goes to windows but unfortunately this time it freezes on windows welcome screen, or if it passes that it freezes on main desktop screen in 2 or max 3 minutes.
When I unplug the AC adapter and run the laptop on the battery power, it freezes, and also it freezes when the AC adapter is unplugged
I testes in Safe Mode. It freezes up in Safe Mode as well.
Basically it freezes in windows and also in Bios. I put a new HDD same problem. I formatted my existing hdd still same problem.
This problem is killing me. Any help would be appreciated.
September 13th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
after repairing of my laptop(power on/off problem),my mouse cursor stop to work after 1min. Or less.but it work in safe mood.i reinstalled window xp again.but it has the same problem.give me a solution.thanks
September 19th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
Hai All,
I am using a laptop of Dell Inspiron 1525 series with VISTA Operating System from past 4 months. Now i am facing a problem of keep shutting down my laptop suddenly without any reason. Again when i am switching on, itz giving a recovery notification that asking me to run in SAFE mode. So i tried that one also. But, there is no result. Same thing was happening Oftenly.
Plz suggest a solution…..Thank you……
September 26th, 2008 at 3:22 am
Last year i have spilled a drink on my laptop and had my keyboard changed by my official dealer, and my laptop has been working very fine, recently my laptop started to freeze on me when booting up. I have reinstalled evrything again it worked fine for a couple of days, then started again the same problem. i think it is related to the net at least that is my impression, the problem is that i have sent my laptop again to my official dealer and they said everything is fine, but they had found some traces of liquid spill on my motherboard, suggestimg me that i should repair it.
i really don’t feel there is a kind of relationship between the motherboard and the freezing…\
any advises??
thanks a lot
October 9th, 2008 at 8:19 am
Amazing webiste and tones of infrmation.
I have a Toshiba A85 laptop when i turn it on it freeze the desktop screen and i can heard fan noise buit after a 20 seconds or so fan stops and screen become blank.
none of the keys on keyboard works. checked on back fan stops working.
try to reboot again and agian nothing work.
Do i need to change the fan or check memory module.
Please help me out.
Thank you
December 17th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
I need help trying to fix my laptop. I’m having a very similar problem to you. But it takes longer than usual to boot up, then everything appears. I try clicking on an icon, and nothing happens at all. I try going to the start menu, and still the same problems occur.
Yesterday my laptop was working perfectly, and I shut it down properly. This morning, I turned it on and found it took a while to boot up. Then the problems occurred.
I NEED HELP :[
January 18th, 2009 at 3:51 pm
Hi, i got a Toshiba R100 up with installed Ubuntu cause i don’t like MS products at all.
So my problem is that i boot the laptop without problems. After being started up, if i push any key (really, could happen with any key) the laptop freezes (gets a kernel panic). The Laptop is able to idle for a few days without any freeze until hitting some keys and it freezes again.
I don’t think that it is a software failure rather a hardware one…
have u got any suggestions for me how to deal with that issue or what i can do to prevent those freezes?
February 8th, 2009 at 8:38 pm
i recently bought a used toshiba satellite P15-S420 from a friend. he warned me that it had some odd power problems. and here’s what they are- first i reformatted the computer with a new copy of xp that i had bought and never used. installed the drivers from toshiba’s web site. and installed sp3 for xp. everything works fine, but when i try to shut down or restart the computer it gets all the way down to “windows is now shutting down” (after “windows is saving your settings” and freezes. i can still shut it down by holding down the power button for five seconds, and it starts up fine and runs fine. i did notice that it gets quite hot. checked the fans, and both work. blew them out with compressed air. but they are only located on the left side of the computer, and the right side (where the battery is) gets quite hot. idk. any suggestions?
February 8th, 2009 at 11:42 pm
justin,
Could be bad hard drive. You can test the hard drive with Hitachi’s drive fitness test, it works well even on non-Hitachi drives. I linked to this utility in “Useful Links” on the right side.
Make sure to run the advanced test.
February 9th, 2009 at 10:58 am
I have a slightly older (2003-04) Compaq laptop, which freezes a minute or two after switching to battery power. It did it with the old battery so a new one was purchased. The battery is brand new and holding a charge. In safe mode I can start it up no problem, navigate around and it stays running. In normal mode it can’t even make it all the way through start up. I was thinking a hardware conflict maybe? Any thoughts are very appreciated. Thank you.
March 3rd, 2009 at 6:05 pm
I have a similar problem with my Sony Vaio VGN-NR11Z/S. Sometimes I turn it on and it’s fine, whilst other time I turn it on and all the icons will load on the desktop but not on the toolbar, and the google sidebar will either freeze or not load properly. So frustrating, and then normally have to turn it on and off about 5 times before it all loads! Any help would be much appreciated
March 12th, 2009 at 6:30 pm
hello,
i have a Dell Inspiron 2200. The other day it had fallen off the desk and now the computer boots but runs really slow and if i click on an icon it sometimes freezes. I noticed the fan hasn’t kicked on either, could that be the problem?? If you have any other input i would appreciate it!!
April 16th, 2009 at 2:09 am
laptopfreak:
i have a toshiba P-15 S420 that is having power issues. it is not the solder connection that is broken as is the issue with most toshibas. this is what it does; i plug in the ac cord and both led bulbs on the front of the laptop light up (there are two; one showing that the ac cord is plugged in, and one showing that the battery is either charging [red light], or fully charged [green light]). if i then open the power utility, it shows what percentage full the battery is, and that it is charging. now when the battery gets to 100% charged, the led bulb showing that the ac cord is plugged in stays on, but the led showing that the battery is either charging or full goes off. and when i open the power utility it shows that the ac cord is plugged in, but the battery is discharging. it will discharge all the way down to zero and shutoff. then when i turn it back on, it starts the whole process over again. any suggestions?
April 18th, 2009 at 4:36 am
Hello, I have an HP laptop which started actign weird recently. It sort of hangs- I can usually move the cursor but cannot click on anything. If I try to close some programs which are running or open task manager, it freezes completely and the screen goes a whitish colour. I have tried 2 system restores and a recovery and the problem was not solved. That was on normal mode. Then I tried using safe mode with networking, this seems to be working much better, although being slow. If I try now to get on normal mode, the laptop hangs as soon as I put my password in. I cannot even restart it having to use the power button to shut down n switch back on. A virus scan with norton cannot be completed and this applies both to normal and safe mode. At some point, it continues processing but without progressing. I ran memory test and HDD test. Memory was ok but I received #1-07 fail error for HDD test. In summary,
1. laptop was hanging on normal mode
2. Now cannot even access normal mode, freezes after putting password in
3. Works better on safe mode, but slow
4. Cannot run virus scan to completion
5. HDD test failure:#1-07
Any sugestion as to whether this is a hardware or sofware or OS issue?
Thnk you.
April 22nd, 2009 at 5:13 am
I have an HP Pavillion zv5000 laptop. When I start it, it boots up normally. However, it shows only the desktop background and does not show any icons on the screen. Also, it does not show the start menu. The cursor is there and can be moved but right/left clicking will not show anything. What seems to be the problem? Will I bring it to a laptop repair shop or just to a software technician? I appreciate to anyone who can help me with this. Thanks a lot.
April 27th, 2009 at 12:03 am
Hi, I have a Dell Inspiron 1545 and after login in it freezes on my desktop. I can move the cursor around but it won’t load anything. Tried restarting several times in safe mode and attmepted a system restore, which failed due to an unspecified error. Any ideas on how to fix? I’ve had it less than a month.
April 29th, 2009 at 1:29 pm
Hi. I would be so greatful HELP.
NEW HP pavilion dv4 Ent. notebook pc
The toolbar/start bar at the bottom of my screen is frozen im still able to you the desktop shortcuts but nothing on the bar will work.
Meaning i cant shut down or restart etc.
Or reach any programs other then whats on the screen. I cant open programs im using ( anything i’ve minimized) and they also dont show. Please help.
I tried removing the battery
and using the ctrl
Esc and window logo bottons.
No success.
July 11th, 2009 at 1:18 am
Hey,
Just got an Acer Aspire 4736z. I ran it the first day and it was smooth. The next morning it turned on, and then froze. Couldn’t even access it to shut it off.
It does the same on mains and the battery as well as in the safe mode. What should I do???
July 17th, 2009 at 12:06 pm
Hello. I have an HP laptop with Windows Vista Home Permium…I was cleaning my room yesterday, looked over, and my laptop had apparently started to shut down on it’s own! Now it will not load up windows vista. I gets stuck on the welcome screen, and sometimes freezes even before I can type my password in. I had my sister look at it in safe mode…but we’re not sure what to do to fix my Laptop. Please help ;(.
August 8th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
Hi, my hp dv4 laptop freezes anytime i boot it .I tried on safe mood it works perfectly on the first time ,i trie booting for the second time it freeze,i took it to safe mode it freezes.Now when you boot it it doesn’t come on screen.please help me with my problem.
THANK YOU.
August 19th, 2009 at 6:27 am
i have similar problem.i have toshiba satellite a205-s4577 series model. my laptop hangs up/ freezes if the ac adaptor is plugged.i had a technician look at it and he said its the mother board problem.but im not sure if he is right.he said it could be the IC or the vga.i tried reformatting my laptop same problem occured.but while working on safe mode..the plug works..but after sometime, it also hangs.
im really desperate to have my laptop get back from working how it used before.
hope you can help me.thank you for your time..
September 23rd, 2009 at 7:58 am
howdy friends, i have an acer 4736z and i have a very similar issue. Everytime i turn it on, it’s booting up so normal but as it reaches the desktop, it will freeze for 20 seconds or so. I don’t know if this is just normal or maybe its just loading all my programs.
Thank you.
September 23rd, 2009 at 8:13 am
kelly,
If the laptop works fine after that, most likely it’s normal. Probably it’s running quick virus scan or searching for updates.
October 27th, 2009 at 11:03 am
My problem with my laptop freezing only happens when i’m running defrag. Obviously this isnt a major problem but I’d like to be able to finish it completely. Any ideas?
October 27th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
Alex Dawson,
1. Clean the cooling fan, maybe the laptop overheats.
2. Test hard drive. Could be hard drive failure.
I posted your question and some suggestions here.
December 2nd, 2009 at 5:23 pm
I have a problem almost the same with the other…I accidentally removed the AC jack on my laptop while watching movies in internet. I put the jack immediately without turning off the main switch or plug and when I turn it on it’s booting up so normal but did not reaches the desktop its freeze. I leave it for an hour considering the HDD is still reading but nothing happen. I try every possibilities but doesnt work. I believed my laptop experience a electric shock. What shall I do please help me.
Thanks.
Michael
December 30th, 2009 at 5:47 am
I have an HP dv6000. It just started to freeze after the cover has been closed for awhile. (I have “do nothing” when lid is closed in power settings.) Everything looks normal but when I click on an icon, the computer freezes. I have to use the power button to shut down. (I always then boot up in safe mode to do a clean shut down and then boot up normally after that.)
I ran a check using the system check that does a 60 second diagnostic on the whole computer. No problems at all except two printer plug and play problems which are not important.
What could closing and/or opening the lid do to cause this? Is it a short somewhere?
March 26th, 2010 at 2:14 am
i have an acer travelmate 6592 when i bootup normal it freezes,but when im in safemode it works fine. i did test the harddrive in another laptop and computer its working fine no freezing and when i try to format or reinstall my laptop windows xp,vista,7 it just freezes. when i disable the power service in windows it works perfect.
April 21st, 2010 at 11:16 pm
i have a toshiba laptop and when i try to turn it on i type my password in, it starts to load for about 5 seconds then it freezes, how can i fix it?
July 10th, 2010 at 12:23 am
my Hp pavallion dv 9910us boots normally and my keyboard works perfectly in dos, that is if booted from win 98 cd i can do all stuff like fdisk, but in GUI my keayboard and touchpad freezes. if i keep my laptop off for 2-3 days my keyboard touchpad freezes after 15 minutes (First touchpad and after reboot keyboard also)i tried all sort of updates including bios (f32) all OS ubuntu all linux win7 xp i opened and disconnected all ports reconnected it. still problem exist.
July 24th, 2010 at 1:46 pm
Hi! This could go under the “Liquid spills” section as well but I decided on this one because I’m not totally sure spillage has anything to do with my problems. So here goes.
About a year ago I bought an Acer Aspire 5739G laptop. Less than a month later I spilled tea on it. Without sugar (I’ve been told it’s important). I was running some Windows updates as it happened and, whilst in shock, didn’t turn the computer off right away. I just flipped it over and let some of the tea spill out. Only about 5 minutes later it dawned on me that I should turn the laptop off. I left it flipped over by an open window and went to bed.
To my enormous surprise and joy, it powered on just fine the next morning. Nothing was sticky, the touchpad and keyboard were working perfectly fine (externally, you couldn’t tell anything was wrong). I couldn’t believe my luck.
I’m not sure how long after that (my guess would be a couple of days but certainly no more than a week) the computer started randomly freezing up. When it does, all I can do is hold the power button until it shuts down.
About the freezing. Overall I think it’s gotten more frequent as time goes on but recently (during the last couple of weeks) it seems to happen less frequently. Anyway, some things I’d like to note:
1) The computer only freezes in normal mode. With this problem I have to run it in Safe Mode most of the time and it has never frozen;
2) It’s very likely it will freeze within minutes when just powered up (e.g. in the morning) but it will likely work fine if it has run in Safe Mode first (it still can freeze but that usually happens hours after starting it in Normal if at all);
3) Usually the second point is moot if I’m, for example, playing some game right after booting up. I guess it’s because of high CPU and memory usage. Other than that, there doesn’t seem to be any pattern with the freezing-up;
4)The laptop often freezes when starting up. I’m running Windows 7 and when the logo comes up, it often freezes. When booting up in Safe Mode it can freeze as well. When all the drivers have been loaded, I get a black screen and that’s it. Sometimes I have to try three or even four times to get it to work;
5) The freezing is accompanied by a monotone sound/buzz if the computer freezes when I’m listening to music or watching a movie.
The third point would seem counter-intuitive to me if there was a problem with the display adapter, memory (a guess I’ve gotten from a friend of mine) or other hardware (though I’m no expert for sure).
I’ve reinstalled Windows (different versions) since the accident but nothing’s changed so I think we can eliminate possible software or driver conflicts. But maybe it’s important to note that twice or thrice the laptop has frozen up for a second or two and then a message has appeared that says something like: “The nVidia graphics application has crashed and recovered”. The last time this happened was months ago so I may be quite off from the actual message (though the keywords – “graphics”, “crashed” and “recovered” – were in it).
I plan to disassemble the laptop tomorrow and see if maybe there’s any residue left, and clean it. If I succeed and it still freezes up (I think it’s not out of the question that the spillage and the start of freezing was just a coincidence) then I really don’t have a clue about what to do next (aside from getting it to a technician).
Sorry, this was really long but I wanted to provide as much information as possible.
July 30th, 2010 at 12:51 pm
Looks like spillage had nothing to do with my problems. The reason for my problems was actually Acer screwing up with this particular model. If anyone with similar problems winds up reading this, disabling powermizer seems to have fixed everything.
August 20th, 2010 at 2:32 pm
Recently I tried very hard to get my CPU properly connected to the heat sink. I think I did everything right but still the laptop freezes short after startup.
I tried different things.
and the problem is the heat sink on d cpu is full of dust just open a tutorial on how to open a laptop clean the heatsink and fix t again problem solved for sure
as soon as the cpu becomes hot the laptop crashes and it takes 30sec for the cpy to get hot
i tried one more ting
i started the computer without the heatsink its ot got freezed
i took a hair driyer started the pc wid the hair driyer wid cold air facing the cpu laptop worked fine without heatsink
i kno opening laptop is rocket science so try this simple test
simple test turn on the ac and see of u getting the same problem if no then do wat i say
October 12th, 2010 at 9:45 am
Hi,posting here to ask a question really.
I bought a Toshiba satellite A660 a few weeks ago (Win7, 4 gig Ram, i7 processor, Gforce Gt 330M if it helps).
my problem is on start up – about a weeka go my laptop jammed on startup and i ended up having to have to use the Toshiba Recovery hard disk tool – basically boots a partition to out-of-box state. Thing is, this installs and reinstalls well (infact i just did this again 30mins ago), but always jams on startup when i switch it off and go to turn it on again.
What happens is that it jams on ‘Windows is Starting’, but the Windows 7 logo doesnt even appear. is this because of incoreectly installed drivers? (thought therye supposed to install automatically) or more likely a hardware problem?
after the 2nd reinstallment i installed COD5 to test it and it worked perfect until the next startup…
Thanks
November 5th, 2010 at 11:16 am
Hi, I have a Toshiba Satellite M45-S2692 that freezes randomly but always soon after startup, if not during. I reset bios to default by desoldering battery and reconnecting. I reinstalled Windows XP and OEM drivers via Toshiba recovery disc. First guess was memory. I swapped it out, no change. I disconnected all peripherals, no change. I swapped out the hard drive, no change. I have swapped out battery and power supply individually, and tested with and without each. Still no change. The machine runs without freezing in safe mode. I have no problem with the physical end of reflowing or replacing chips or capacitors if someone can give me a clue where to start looking for motherboard problem. Thanks in advance for any help you may have. Steve Page
December 30th, 2010 at 3:57 pm
Hello, I have a Packard Bell EasyNote TJ65, and it started freezing and not responding anymore. The only way I have to restart it, it’s to take away the batteries, then put them on again and restart it; other times, it shuts down on its own and then I have the blue screen. I noticed this appears to happen when I use iTunes, and I have Windows 7. Do I need to re-install iTunes?
Tonight, though, even though I haven’t used iTunes in day, it has freezed for 3 times in a row, without any blue screen, so I had to force it once again into shutting off and then restarted it. What can I do?
Thank you in advance
August 14th, 2011 at 4:25 pm
Sounds like a bad memory block to me (had the same problem with my old computer).
But don’t go rushing out buying a new memory block. It’s better to follow the error finding step-by-step process described, so you can be 100% it’s a bad memory block and not just some software issue.
August 30th, 2011 at 8:44 am
Hi,
I’m looking for help with my Toshiba Satellite A200, which runs Windows Vista.
Periodically, the screen freezes up in one of two ways: (1) the screen goes dark, or (2) the screen goes dark, except with one or many white squares filled with vertical, shaky lines. In either case, the computer is unresponsive.
The problems tend to occur not while I’m on the computer (though on rare occasions, that’s been true as well), but when I’ve left it sitting running with programs open. While I can work on the laptop for a number of hours without it acting up, it seems like I can’t leave it running for an hour without it freezing up. I’ve also noticed that the computer is no longer utilizing the Screensaver.
Before the problem began (maybe a week ago), I did have a couple months where if I tried to “sleep” the laptop overnight rather than shut it down, I would find it in the morning behaving as though it was not sleeping (though it had slept initially the night before), but also unresponsive and requiring a manual shutdown.
Also, in the last day or two, on a couple of occasions while starting up the laptop, it had to run Start-Up Repair in order to boot up properly.
Please, please, Laptop Freak, any help would be wonderful!