Satelltie A100-237 startup fails at boot screen...

It happens at the startup before windows starts to open that the bar at the bottom stops at 80 to 90 percentage position. i don't know why but i suspect that it happens when i plug in the local area connection cable before starting the computer. not all the time the problem occurs. not cyclic but once in 4 or 5 startings.
Thank you.

Hi requiem,
I suggest you to test this lan-cable thing, and this about 10 times. Maybe its really depending on how and when you connect your lan cable.
Do you use DHCP or fixed IPs? Maybe that can be a reason, because if you use DHCP, windows has sometimes problems to assign a IP and locks up because of it.
Try to assign a fixed IP, so if you encounter the same problem, then you probably have an other problem. Sometimes its good to check the memory of the system, with tools like "memtest86" or "prime95" to ensure that your system has no hardware failure.
Greets

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