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Question

Issue with laptop

Apr 26, 2015 1:08PM PDT

Booted up laptop and said sound was disabled. Can't seem to go into control panel and certain games wont load anymore ( some will some wont )

Any ideas what this could be from?

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Clarification Request
What did you do prior to this problem?
Apr 26, 2015 1:17PM PDT

Was everything working before ?
With the information provided, We can only guess...
Digger

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Not quite sure..
Apr 26, 2015 1:19PM PDT

Appeared to be working fine today. Could use it for whatever. The unfortunate thing is... its not even letting me go into update/recovery to wipe windows -_-

Its a new asus laptop g751 J or something. It was fine, now its angry.

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Update
Apr 26, 2015 1:41PM PDT

Everytime I shut it down now it says Windows " Task Host " is still running.

Uhh.. I've NEVER had that happen before. What is worse is It just sits here and says prepping when trying to wipe windows and I can't seem to go into the Bios.....

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Final Update
Apr 26, 2015 3:12PM PDT
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That was it?
Apr 26, 2015 3:33PM PDT

AVG ?
There's a bunch of stuff on the web about Anti Virus programs messing things up.

Digger

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Answer
It may help you
Apr 27, 2015 3:48PM PDT

Yes, If I got your question in right way please have a look it may help you...

http://en.community.dell dot com/support-forums/virus-spyware/f/3522/t/19446360