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Question

Windows 10 sticking on start-up screen

Mar 23, 2016 2:58AM PDT

when I turn the desktop on, of late I am stuck with the initial screen and nothing I do will get me through to the login so I have to keep having to turn off and restart, eventually I can get through, any ideas why?

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Sadly the turn off and it works the next time is a sign
Mar 23, 2016 8:59AM PDT

Not a good one. The old issue "BAD CAPS" had that symptom and millions of PCs and other devices suffered that issue. I don't see any PC details so I can't google if this model had that issue.

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Turn on problem
Mar 26, 2016 3:27AM PDT

my PC has just been reconfigured after a HD crash so you could say it was new, I am now using a Samsung ssd as my primary drive which has had the effect of speeding startup by a factor of 75% or so, this startup problem is just a annoyance.
on the subject of computer spec, I would attach a Speccy readout but cannot find a way of including one on this site but here we go, O/P Windows 10 Pro 64bit, CPU:- AMD FX-6350, 16 GB ram, MB:- ASRock 990FX Extreme9, Graphics:- 2084mb ATI AMD Radeon R9 200 Series.
if you see anything there let me know

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Ouch.
Mar 26, 2016 8:43AM PDT
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For clarity.
Mar 26, 2016 8:45AM PDT