my laptop freezing after 60 seconds.

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So I have an old (about 5 years) Asus G73JH that freezes before I have time to do anything on it. Forgive me if I go into to much detail here but I just want you to know anything necessary. The battery is completely dead, and doesn't hold a charge anymore so ive been running it from the cord (yes I know this is bad, idk why I never replaced it). Was fine untill the cord got loose and would slip out sometimes, crashing the system. This last time it crashed it has never been the same. It wont even stay on for 60 second cord plugged in or not. So i figured i would try my best to clean it up and do some maintenance, it crashed durring a disk clean up. Now when I start it up it asked if I want to repair it, I say yes, but it never makes it through. It just freezes part way through. Power still on and everything. And dit freezes around the same time everytime. Any help would be awesome, laptop ran great just a couple weeks ago. Despite the age. Thanks guys
 
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Try borrowing an original windows 7 dvd from someone, I have done that in the past with a friend's laptop. However that was XP and he didnt have a disc, since i have an original copy and it worked but it did say after the repair that it was repaired with a different version of xp but it worked fine.

zer0c00l587

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When the cord slipped out causing loss of power has corrupted the MBR (mother boot record) of the hard drive and/or other important files of windows.

Boot up with your windows dvd disc, make sure to set the bios to boot cd/dvd drive first, when the disc loads, on the screen the option to install windows is displayed, look at the bottom left of the screen you will see the option to repair windows. Click on it and the recovery console of windows will open giving you many options.

- The first option should startup repair, followed by system restore etc, at the bottom should be command prompt options. Try startup repair and see if it fixes the issue. In experience slimmer chance of system restore working but it does sometimes or sometimes there is no restore option available, the system restore is only good if one makes a system restore manually on a regular basis.

- Command prompt is a excellent tool

Some commands you can try if startup repair fails

Type "sfc /scannow" ...without quotation marks and press enter, this will check the integrity of windows files and repair if its needed.

 

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Other command prompt commands are:

image to check for corruption. This operation will take several minutes. For example, at a command prompt, type the following command:

Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth

Check the image to see whether any corruption has been detected. For example, at a command prompt, type:


Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth



Use the /RestoreHealth argument to repair the image. For example, to repair an offline image using a mounted image as a repair source, at a command prompt, type the following command:

Dism /Image:C:\offline /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth /Source:c:\test\mount\windows

Or to repair an online image using some of your own sources instead of Windows Update, type:

Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth /Source:c:\test\mount\windows /LimitAccess


NOTE: I have not tested this except for the first command which turned out my system as ok and not needing to proceed further, i advise you to wait for a more experienced individual to verify these steps or offer different solution.
 

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Well, unfortunatly my computer never came with a windows disk. But when i start it up, it automaticaly brings mebto the start up repair. Never makes it through though. But how do i get to the comand prompt? Im assuming its at start up? But all i ever get is the option to start up repair or start normally.
 

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I can get it to even go to the desktop now. Just freezes after 2 minutes. Ive timed it. Its the same everytime. Whether its in the comand prompt, safe mode, or normal mode. Starts up like normal. It seems i can even open anything and everything just only have two minutea to do it.
 

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Try borrowing an original windows 7 dvd from someone, I have done that in the past with a friend's laptop. However that was XP and he didnt have a disc, since i have an original copy and it worked but it did say after the repair that it was repaired with a different version of xp but it worked fine.
 
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