2 technical questions about my PC and online submission fields

Panther28 said:

It won't remember email and password, but depending on how the site and page store the information, or with a setting, your shipping address might be saved.
But not data through the drop-down menus. Those disappear when you clear cookies and prefilled info. So those are local.

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uncutu said:

sounds like you do get past the post screen. it just takes long time to see the windows loading screen. ive had cases where it takes an hour+ for windows to load. so be patient.
generally it means windows is corrupt (reformat, or try your luck with repair tools)

https://ubackup.com/windows-10/repair-windows-10-using-command-prompt.html
youll need to boot into recovery mode to access command prompt and run the relevant commands.
since you get past post screen and windows does load, you may have success here.
reformat would be quick and lazy solution. you just forgo reoverying all of your data.

or your hdd is dying and soon to be Dead. time for a replacement.
yes i know yours is new but sometimes you just get a bad one from the store.
google backblaze hard drive reliability report.

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tazarbm said:

Question 1: what could possibly be wrong when I power up my computer but it won't go past the POST (startup) screen? Because I just woke up, turned the computer on and, lo and behold, it wouldn't go past the starting screen until I turned it off, and then back on again. But even then, it took a good 30-40 seconds before I could see the loading dots of Windows 10 rotating. So, I obviously freaked out and I need to protect myself against this happening again, but I don't know how because I don't know what the problem is.

This computer had been built in 2014 (so yeah, it's pretty old), but still, this is the 1st time that this happens, and my first guess would be HDD failure, but... and here's the problem.... this HDD (and yes, it is an old-fashioned Toshiba HDD) had been purchased last year after my previous HDD has failed. And please, don't tell me to get an SSD because I'm not retarded, I know that SSDs are better but I can't afford one at the moment, and I'm saving money for a new computer anyway since this one is getting pretty rusty.

So, why did my computer not go past the POST screen? Where could the problem be?

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tazarbm said:

Question 2: (bare with me because I don't know how to explain this).... let's say that you have an account with an online tool / service / whatever and you log into your account and some of the things you can do in that account require you to fill in certain fields with certain information. It might be a payment page where you have to fill in the credit card details, it might be a form submission where you'd have to fill in your website details or whatever. That's not important. What I'd like to know is if I access my online account from a different location (say from another city for example) will those fields on the payment page or the website submission page remember the previously inputted data from when I used these fields back home?

I apologize for not being able to make it clearer, but rest assured that I tried my best to explain. But basically, what I'd like to know is whether the fields on data submission pages remember the info and prepopulate it into those fields when I put the mouse cursor in those fields from a different location (so, from a different IP I guess). Is this information tied to my IP, or to my online account? I'm not sure how this works, and I need to know this badly! So, please, enlighten a non-tech savvy dude if it's not too much trouble!

Thanks for reading this, and thanks in advance for helping me understand

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Sardi said:

May indicate that your HDD has reached the end and needs to be replaced, It could also be a cpu or gpu problem

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tazarbm said:

I just purchased this HDD

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tazarbm said:

I just purchased this HDD

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uncutu said:

check if you're still in the warranty/refund window with the vendor you bought from.
if its very new i would just tell them its DOA [dead on arrival] and u want a refund/return.

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Sardi said:

borrow an Hdd from somewhere else and see if your pc does boot normally
If it does boot normally, you will know where the problem is

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tazarbm said:

Hi everyone,

First of all, mods, please move this thread to the right sub-forum. I couldn't figure out for the life of me where to put it because I can't find any sub-forum about technical help.

Now, I have 2 questions so, if anyone knows the answer please share it!

Question 1: what could possibly be wrong when I power up my computer but it won't go past the POST (startup) screen? Because I just woke up, turned the computer on and, lo and behold, it wouldn't go past the starting screen until I turned it off, and then back on again. But even then, it took a good 30-40 seconds before I could see the loading dots of Windows 10 rotating. So, I obviously freaked out and I need to protect myself against this happening again, but I don't know how because I don't know what the problem is.

This computer had been built in 2014 (so yeah, it's pretty old), but still, this is the 1st time that this happens, and my first guess would be HDD failure, but... and here's the problem.... this HDD (and yes, it is an old-fashioned Toshiba HDD) had been purchased last year after my previous HDD has failed. And please, don't tell me to get an SSD because I'm not retarded, I know that SSDs are better but I can't afford one at the moment, and I'm saving money for a new computer anyway since this one is getting pretty rusty.

So, why did my computer not go past the POST screen? Where could the problem be?

Question 2: (bare with me because I don't know how to explain this).... let's say that you have an account with an online tool / service / whatever and you log into your account and some of the things you can do in that account require you to fill in certain fields with certain information. It might be a payment page where you have to fill in the credit card details, it might be a form submission where you'd have to fill in your website details or whatever. That's not important. What I'd like to know is if I access my online account from a different location (say from another city for example) will those fields on the payment page or the website submission page remember the previously inputted data from when I used these fields back home?

I apologize for not being able to make it clearer, but rest assured that I tried my best to explain. But basically, what I'd like to know is whether the fields on data submission pages remember the info and prepopulate it into those fields when I put the mouse cursor in those fields from a different location (so, from a different IP I guess). Is this information tied to my IP, or to my online account? I'm not sure how this works, and I need to know this badly! So, please, enlighten a non-tech savvy dude if it's not too much trouble!

Thanks for reading this, and thanks in advance for helping me understand

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uncutu said:

check if you're still in the warranty/refund window with the vendor you bought from.
if its very new i would just tell them its DOA [dead on arrival] and u want a refund/return.

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