Reboot on startup

A few days ago I applied the latest updates.

Since then, my machine will reboot upon startup, then on the 2nd
try...work just fine.


It gets as far as the spinning dots, then stops when they are in the "C"
position.


Not a major big deal as Win10 is my second OS but just curious

On 26/10/2017 11:32 PM, philo wrote:
A few days ago I applied the latest updates.

Since then, my machine will reboot upon startup, then on the 2nd
try...work just fine.

It gets as far as the spinning dots, then stops when they are in the "C"
position.

Not a major big deal as Win10 is my second OS but just curious

An upgrade might boot your PC a few times....

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On 10/26/2017 10:42 AM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
On 26/10/2017 11:32 PM, philo wrote:
A few days ago I applied the latest updates.

Since then, my machine will reboot upon startup, then on the 2nd
try...work just fine.

It gets as far as the spinning dots, then stops when they are in the "C"
position.

Not a major big deal as Win10 is my second OS but just curious

An upgrade might boot your PC a few times....




No, not an upgrade, just the standard updates. The Win7 install was
upgraded to Win10 several months ago.


Next time I shut the thing down I will check to make sure there are not
additional updates in progress.

On 26/10/2017 11:47 PM, philo wrote:

No, not an upgrade, just the standard updates. The Win7 install was
upgraded to Win10 several months ago.

A standard update could be a big upgrade. That's how Win 10 is doing.

Next time I shut the thing down I will check to make sure there are not
additional updates in progress.

To avoid accidental upgrade that prevent you from using the PC
instantly, disable automatic updates. It's especially true if your PC or
notebook is to be taken out to do a presentation.

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On 10/26/2017 11:45 AM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
On 26/10/2017 11:47 PM, philo wrote:

No, not an upgrade, just the standard updates. The Win7 install was
upgraded to Win10 several months ago.

A standard update could be a big upgrade. That's how Win 10 is doing.

Next time I shut the thing down I will check to make sure there are not
additional updates in progress.

To avoid accidental upgrade that prevent you from using the PC
instantly, disable automatic updates. It's especially true if your PC or
notebook is to be taken out to do a presentation.




I did NOT upgrade accidentally I did so purposely.


For years I had been running Win7 on a dual core machine with 4 gigs of RAM


Recently I built a new Linux machine that has quad-core CPU and 16 gigs
of RAM.

I decided to take the Win7 hard drive out of the old machine and put it
in the new machine and dual boot.


Once I had the Win7 drive installed in the new machine, it booted up ok
and installed the new hardware without a problem.


Once it was all OK I upgraded to Win10 and it's been working quite
nicely for several months.


In general Win10 seems to be just fine.


BTW: I still have a win7 installation on my old machine. I have a slide
scanner with software designed for XP but it works fine on Win7...but
only on 32 bit Win7 so that older machine will still have occasional use.

That said, I have a newer slide scanner that works well on my Win10
machine, so when I scan slides I use Win10


Other than that , Linux has been my main OS

On 10/26/2017



I just booted to Win10 now and it started normally.

Before I shut it down I confirmed there were no more updates and none
pending. All I can think is that after I updated the machine, while I
was using it, more updates were being applied.

philo wrote:
On 10/26/2017



I just booted to Win10 now and it started normally.

Before I shut it down I confirmed there were no more updates and none
pending. All I can think is that after I updated the machine, while I
was using it, more updates were being applied.

Rather than more updates, check your Windows Update History,
and see if some update was failing. It could have
been retrying for some reason.

Paul

On 10/26/2017 04:07 PM, Paul wrote:
philo wrote:
On 10/26/2017



I just booted to Win10 now and it started normally.

Before I shut it down I confirmed there were no more updates and none
pending. All I can think is that after I updated the machine, while I
was using it, more updates were being applied.

Rather than more updates, check your Windows Update History,
and see if some update was failing. It could have
been retrying for some reason.

Â*Â* Paul



I checked and all installed OK but there were something like 90 of them
right around the time I had that little glitch.

I think I must have shut down as they were installing.

The Win10 installation does not get used much so evidently a lot of
updates were needed

On 26/10/2017 16:47, philo wrote:
On 10/26/2017 10:42 AM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
On 26/10/2017 11:32 PM, philo wrote:
A few days ago I applied the latest updates.

Since then, my machine will reboot upon startup, then on the 2nd
try...work just fine.

It gets as far as the spinning dots, then stops when they are in the "C"
position.

Not a major big deal as Win10 is my second OS but just curious

An upgrade might boot your PC a few times....




No, not an upgrade, just the standard updates. The Win7 install was
upgraded to Win10 several months ago.


Next time I shut the thing down I will check to make sure there are not
additional updates in progress.
On many occasions recently my system stops booting with an orange
screen criss-crossed with a white squared pattern. This happened this
morning, but keying control-alt-delete caused the machine to reboot and
is now working normally. I've not been able to trace this to an update
nor a disc error. Any help would be much appreciated.

Oldster wrote:

On many occasions recently my system stops booting with an orange
screen criss-crossed with a white squared pattern. This happened this
morning, but keying control-alt-delete caused the machine to reboot and
is now working normally. I've not been able to trace this to an update
nor a disc error. Any help would be much appreciated.

This sounds like a video card problem.

Check that the fan still works on your desktop video card.
(This is easier said than done!)

When the system is running, you can use a program like
Speedfan or maybe GPU-Z, to get the video card temperature.
A high temperature (like 100C), might indicate a fan
failure.

http://www.almico.com/speedfan452.exe

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/

Video card fans don't have RPM indicators.

Overheating video cards don't shut down the computer.

The hardware is designed this way, to increase the
sales of replacement video cards :-/

Start a separate thread, if you want to go into
more details, about the hardware you own, whether
it's a desktop or laptop, make and model, and so on.

Paul