"John Haman" <[email protected]> writes: > On Tue, Aug 11, 2026, at 12:59 PM, Matt Nish-Lapidus wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've had this with my laptop occasionally. With my laptop if I >> hold the power button down to hard reset, then keep holding it >> there is a further reset (the led blinks). tbh i'm not entirely >> sure what it's resetting, something to do with power or memory... >> razer doesn't really say and i haven't dug deeper. >> >> But doing that always fixes this stall-on-boot after power outage >> or other dirty reboot. > > Very interesting idea! I tried this on my desktop computer. I actually had to > look up the manual for the motherboard to see how to conduct a CMOS clear. But > unfortunately no relief from the boot stall. >
This is highly unusual to me, but I reset the CMOS following your advice. Immediately rebooting the computer left it in an unbootable state, as i mentioned in my first reply. I let the machine sit unpowered for 48 hours and tried it again, and it started up without any difficulty. I'm just now getting around to updating the list. I can't really explain it, but i wanted to thank you for the idea and add my credence to it. -- John T. Haman Maryland, USA Sent from my Gnus
