Is this windows or hardware creating issues? Dell Inspiron 2 in 1.

[kojack]

I have been having issues with my laptop recently where I will start it up, it will show the dell logo, then go blank.  fire it up again, it will show the logo, spin the circle for a second, then stop.  third time, spin the circle a bit more then go into dell system scan, exit from that then goto automatic repair.  After I shut the system off when automatic repair it boots into windows, but it's slow.  internet is not working correctly.  After another restart, everything works somewhat correctly.  Temps are fairly high at 50dg plus just watching a youtube video and then peaking to 70.  I have seen 70dg peaking to 98.  

 

What do you think it is?  Motherboard issue?

[Aaron44126]

This reminds me of an old Dell Latitude that I had which would require multiple attempts to boot up to the point of running Windows. I would fire it up, it would show the Dell boot screen and then just power off. It took multiple tries to get it to boot Windows, but it was fine once it finally did that. It was noticeably worse when it was cold in the room (more attempts required), so I chalked this up to some kind of weird hardware issue.

 

In any case, I'd say that this similarly sounds more like hardware than software. I wonder if you just booted to BIOS setup (F2 key at startup) and let it sit there for a few minutes, and then rebooted, if it would boot into the OS normally.

[kojack]

9 hours ago, Aaron44126 said:

This reminds me of an old Dell Latitude that I had which would require multiple attempts to boot up to the point of running Windows. I would fire it up, it would show the Dell boot screen and then just power off. It took multiple tries to get it to boot Windows, but it was fine once it finally did that. It was noticeably worse when it was cold in the room (more attempts required), so I chalked this up to some kind of weird hardware issue.

 

In any case, I'd say that this similarly sounds more like hardware than software. I wonder if you just booted to BIOS setup (F2 key at startup) and let it sit there for a few minutes, and then rebooted, if it would boot into the OS normally.

I never tried that. Its messed up though. no hardware faults showing when testing hardware. I agree though it's some sort of hardware glitch. 

[kojack]

I tried booting just now. It hung on the first power cycle, so I re started and hit esc, boot options showed up in the top right corner and it booted into windows quickly.  Must be something with secure boot, or EFI.  I will try hitting esc on every power up now and see if that helps. 

[kojack]

I went into bios as well after. I was having thoughts my fan wasn't working.  So I set the bios to "high performance" mode. The fan does not get really loud like it used to. I am thinking it was so blocked up with husky fur that it was working way harder.  I took the back off, repasted with NT-H2 and cleaned the fan and heatsink. 

 

I ran the benchmark in affinity and gained about 20% in performance.  ha ha.