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Acer aspire m5 stuck in a restart loop that turns on and off in 5 seconds without any display

Hello my acer aspire m5 is stuck in a restart loop. Each time i switch it on it starts for 2 seconds then switsches off and on again. When it switches on you can feel the fan and drive running then ...
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What's the Proper Way to Shutdown / Restart a laptop, if it is not responding?

I came across a program that is not responding, and I don't know how to restart the laptop properly. If you're thinking that I should long press the power button to turn off the computer, no! Yes, it ...
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Why does my computer take an abnormally long time to shut down?

I am booting Windows 8.1 Professional 64-bit off an SSD (specifically, a 128GB ADATA SP900), and while it boots up incredibly fast, it also takes an obscenely long time to shut-down. The time to go ...
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Windows 8 cannot shut down, hibernate or sleep. It can only restart

Hoping to get lucky as i've tried to fix this problem for months. I was using my PC to fix the BCD of another. I accidentally altered my own boot records which got me in a bit of strife. After many ...
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Restart and then automatically shutdown windows 8 [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to instruct Windows 8 NOT to perform a fast shutdown? Windows 8 has a hybrid shutdown that has some (perhaps minor) downsides. Hybrid shutdown is faster, so I do not want ...
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What's the difference between a shutdown and a reboot on Windows? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Difference between shutdown ( power off ) and restart ( reboot ) When I shutdown my Windows PC sometimes the boot time increases to 150% of the fastest boot it ever did. But ...
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