Comments on: Laptop freezes after showing Windows XP screen

By: Bill

Bill — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 18:02:11 +0000

Help! I bought a dell laptop from the pawnshop for a really good price, but every time i reformat, install windows, any version, it locks up through the web browser, saying that it belongs to everest college. is there anyway around this?

By: Debbie

Debbie — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:22:53 +0000

I have a Gateway laptop and XP professional. Laptop has started making a power down sound then freezes up. The closest I can come to describing the sound is the sound on cartoons when missles have been fired and are coming down. Anyway, the laptop will make that sound, then freeze. Sometimes it will then “unfreeze” and continue, then make the sound and freeze again, until finally it is really “frozen” and the task manager won’t work, the curser won’t move, etc. You have to hold down the power button to do a hard boot, then it says it was closed down improperly, the blue screen appears, it says it can’t find the operating system. Rebooting several times in a row will usually allow it to find the windows XP again,but then the sound thing starts all over. I have never seen this problem and can’t find anything that sounds like this sort of thing on the internet. Can you help?

By: Seroko

Seroko — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 04:51:57 +0000

I’m having issues with my Alienware m17x freezing when switching to battery. The battery is fully charged, the system doesn’t die it just freezes and requires the wonderful hold the button down to restart to solve fix after I hook it back in.

By: martin bradford

martin bradford — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:22:01 +0000

I have a similar problem. I have a HP Pavilon laptop. It freezes on Windows start up as descibed. I have reloaded the Laptop image discs no proplem. But still freezes.