Not A Hoster problem But......

[Beavis]

maybe your hard drive is failing.

[JNS02]

Bevis, Hard drive failing? He did say BOTH computers, I find it very unlikely (except with MY luck) that both HD's are failing. Carl, Sorry I can't help you but I didn't like his answer. Had to vent.

[ddouglass]

Carl,
the updates you did may have cause this. Contact HP as they may have a cure for this. HP and some of the other computer system manufacturers add a very small section to your hard drive that they use for system restoral and that does cause problems with some of the updates Microsoft puts out. Most likely HP will know about this and have afix to get you going.

[Beavis]

do you have a external hard drive installed when rebooting ? if so what kind is it ?

[crazycarl]

on the desk top 500gb internal, laptop 500 WD My Book laptop is diconnected
Thanks

[Beavis]

ok

because i have had problems with my desktop not rebooting while the mybook drive was connected to my computer, it would just keep rebooting over and over. the same thing happened with my seagate external.

[Skybird74]

Instead of rebooting with the ext. drive connected. First, just Shut Down, then unplug the external drive before rebooting. Then plug in the ext. drive after your system has finished rebooting. Sometimes the machine will look at all drives first searching for the boot order. If it isn't plugged in, then it won't look there, and the machine will boot up normally without any "hiccups".