my Trusty Aspite 280 started to hang up on resume from sleep about 3 years ago. I ran some updates at the time, and it went away, and was fine until late last year. It started hanging again, i believe after an MS update in October. Not often, but enough to be an irritation. Gradually over the months, it got worse, i tried the usual tools of CHKDSK, /sfc scannow etc, graduating uptp Windows auto repair tools and system restores multiple times, and often getting an auto repair cannot repair messsage. or even hanging during the repair process. For long enough, ive preferred to sleep the pc rather than shut down, but i stopped sleeping it and began shutting down as a lot of online help suggests it old or outdated drivers. So, i had a mega-updateathon, on all i can find that could be updated, was. Didnt stop it. The hangs still continue, but not as often, freq within 5 mins of windows starting. but sometimes during boot before windows starts. Each time it hangs, the screen freezes, totally unresponsive. Only way on is to crash it. sometimes it then starts OK, sometimes it can take 2, 3 for or more (6 is the highest) times before I get a startup. Usually, then, pc works fine. Getting to the point of GRRRR! i did an OS reinstall 3 weekends ago, so the Win 10 is now fresh, 2H22. but…yes, it still hangs. again, not as often as before, id say its now about every 2nd or 3rd startup, rather than the 3 or 4 times a day it was. Once its running, for more than 5 mins i know its ok. I ran it non stop for over 36hrs without issue last week. Whats bugging me now is: why it hangs in BIOS before windows starts…? Then, and its happened 3 times now, the PC has been woken from sleep early AM and ive come down to find it sat on a BIOS upgrade page that doesnt appear in when I tap into the bios normally. I havent got a handle on whether its trying to upgrade and failing, as the BIOS build date is still saying 2016, (P11-A4, 04/26/16) or whether its telling me theres an update available and to install it.
your thoughts would be appreciated.
Phil.
