Start up problem - Vista Home Premium My laptops about a month old and over the last few days when starting up it will show the Compaq logo then stay on a black screen for about ten minutes with very little HDD activity, just a few flickers of the light every five seconds.
After about ten minutes it will load up perfectly fine, and seems no different once it's loaded.
Though if I shut it down using hibernate this doesn't happen at all, it just loads up normally.
I've been told to uninstall Norton 360 and reset the windows firewall to default settings to fix it, this didn't help.
System Restore won't fix it as I have no points from before this problem.
Any help is appreciated, would also like to know if hibernating will cause any problems if used all the time? |