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Thread ID: 143771 2017-04-06 01:20:00 Laptop won't boot up properly Roscoe (6288) Press F1
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1433837 2017-04-06 01:20:00 My laptop is having problems booting up. If I just leave it to it's own devices it will not boot up but if I repeatedly press the F8 key it boots up eventually. I'd rather not have to do that so I was hoping that someone could tell me what's wrong and how to rectify the problem. Thank you. Roscoe (6288)
1433838 2017-04-06 02:10:00 not enough info :) so

could be
hard drive intermittent fault or spin up fault
bios not set to boot from HD
bios trying to boot from a USB (default on many HP's (even servers), stupid HP)
attatched device issue

F8 could be bios level F8 or Win level F8. Both completely different
so could be
corrupt win & you going into safe mode
boot device issue (see above)
some other issue as F8 at POST point can do many different things, F8 different for many makes & models

any errors onscreen if you dont hit F8
anything even on the screen
perhaps some power save/hybernate issue . Is it win10 : turn off fast boot , turn off hybernate/powersave
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