I have two separate drives (one being the 1TB factory drive) connected via USB 2.0 for backup and accessing user-folders as re-mapped them one of the drives. The computer is shared by family and has multiple users. I swapped out the factory drive and cloned the contents to a Samsung Evo 850 SSD after I upgraded to Windows 8.1 pro. What I haven’t tried so far but been reluctant to, is re-flashing the bios or trying the recovery media and starting over from Windows 8, which at this point I’m not sure I’d be able to accomplish this, since I haven’t been able to successfully get to Windows 10 recovery menu anyway. What got me leading down this path was the fact that after powering down the unit, unplugging and discharging any remaining charge via holding the power button, and after about 2 hours or more, I could press the Assist button and it would almost immediately bring up the menu but again when pressing F10 it would boot up to the login screen instead of the Windows 10 recovery options. Also checked the power-strip making sure I had 120 volts. ![]() I have also applied a volt meter making sure the power block had the proper voltage or in this case 20 volts. I double checked today, taking the back off, inspected that I had replaced all the parts and pieces, and picked up and slowly rotated the unit side to side and back and forth making sure I didn’t have a loose screw. But this fix didn’t last.įinally, I had one of the CPU fans go out earlier in the year and eventually took the unit apart and replaced the fan. I ran it in safe-mode and the system eventually booted, not right away, but perhaps within 2mins or so. I had read in another Windows Ten forum posting of someone having similar but not quit the same issue but was able to get his resolved by using the Windows utility software available at. I was able to do a repair install (keeping my files/folders) but no luck. I thought maybe it was an issue with the last cumulative update and so uninstalled it but the problem didn’t go away. ![]() Everything was running normally until the time period mentioned above when I started having the long boot times. This system was pre-loaded with Windows 8 pro and then I upgraded to Windows 8.1 pro and eventually took advantage of the Windows 10 upgrade offer and transferred over in July this year. I have ran both chdsk and sfc commands and no errors or integrity violations are founds. All comes back clean expect for the usual IE and Google PUP/PUM links/extensions which I’ve removed. I have scanned for malware using Kaspersky IS 2017, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware and its separate rootkit beta scanner and Adware and Junkware removers. When the recovery screen does finally come up, I select recovery (F10) hoping it would go into the Windows 10 recovery options but instead the computer will boot up to the login screen. Sometimes the recovery screen will appear and other times just like above. I then turn it off and use the Sony Assist button to get to the recovery screen. And after a while there is no hard-drive activity. The monitor is on but there is only a black screen the whole time. We’re talking in the neighborhood of several hours and sometimes it doesn’t even boot, but “sits and spins” so to speak. Since the later part of Nov early Dec, I have been experiencing extremely long boot times. ![]() I have a Sony All-In-One (Model SVL241290X also known as SVL241A11L) computer loaded with Windows 10 Home.
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