I took my laptop to a repair shop because it wouldn't boot up at all. They said it was a BIOS bug specific to my model and claimed they fixed it. However, when I brought it home, it still wouldn't boot after an hour of waiting. I went back to the shop, and while they managed to turn it on, they blamed my boot time on having too many startup apps. The catch? I only have three! I'm baffled because it worked fine before but suddenly stopped. What's going on here? Am I missing something?
3 Answers
Did you have the chance to see if it booted when you picked it up? Sometimes, they make it work just long enough to send you home, but it’s frustrating if it acts up right after. Definitely sounds like a deeper issue than just startup apps. Maybe they just didn’t want to dig into it.
Sounds like they might be brushing off bigger issues. You really need to provide your laptop specs so folks can help diagnose it better. If it's not booting after an hour, startup apps are probably not the issue. It could be a failing hard drive. Generally, laptops today should have SSDs instead of HDDs, which makes them much more reliable. But it could be something else entirely, just hard to say without more info.
Honestly, three startup apps are pretty minimal. If it was working fine and just suddenly stopped, it really doesn’t sound like an app issue. I’d be leaning toward hardware problems myself, especially if you waited an hour just for it to fail. You might want to try a full diagnostics check on the hardware.
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