Windows 10: Win10 Laptop Boots but completely unusable

My 2020-ish Lenovo idea pad 5 has stopped working pretty much entirely. When it boots, the screen flashes red, same colour as the taskbar about every second for a second see attached It does take up the entire screen evenly but my camera didn't pick it up. All icons disappear and only the cursor is visible during the flicker.I did monetarily get the computer to stop flashing, but I had very limited access, and: taskbar, Start, search, action center not working. I couldn't anything save for chrome and a folder that was on my desktop. I couldn't open anything in the folder as that came up with

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laptop doesnt boot automatically

This is what happened.

1. Did a repair install and later disabled hibertnate in CMD.
2. Enabled legacy option ROM in BIOS.
3. After a few times startup ( i used the system in such mode for 5 days), changed boot option back to default.
4. Vola!! It boots automatically to win10 without any keypress. Tested it with many starts to confirm the same.
5. Re-enabled hibernate option using CMD and later selected Fast Startup.
6. System booted normally, without the need for any keypress.

I do not know exactly whether such steps resolved the problem or what else happened, hence cannot suggest above steps.

Many thanks to all members who helped to troubleshoot problems.

 

Windows Updated(16299.309).KB4088776 Restart is required to complete.

Hi dalchina. Good news, I followed your suggestion and reinstalled the update and now it appears as "installed correctly" *Biggrin Maybe it was not necessary to run the Windows Update Troubleshooter or maybe if necessary. But using it I do not think it could have worsened something. The installation was very fast, unlike the first time it showed step 1 and step 2 completed.

Thanks for the suggestions and for the time to respond Best regards.


And thanks for the tip of that program, I'll have it on my list.

 

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