Update, the laptop will post the bios, and then show the windows splash screen with the green chaser, then it will just black screen. Does anybody have any ideas on this?
I wonder if the freefall sensor is somehow locking up the drive and preventing full boot-up the first time you turn it on. Perhaps a glitch in the sensor, resulting in a faulty hard drive. Can you try the laptop with a different hard drive and see if the behavior persists?
That's my next step. I'm currently out of town, but as soon as I return I'm going to hit my buddy up (I think he has an extra notebook drive). My next step after that is to reformat the drive and install XP pro to see if the issue persists. I'm leaning more to it being a hardware issue than a software issue though.
That's the strange thing, I don't need to try to boot into safe mode. Once it locks up, if I hold down the power button to power down the laptop, and then turn it back on, it takes me to the screen that says Windows did not load properly on the last attempt, and then asks if I want to start Windows normally, or run start-up repair. No matter which I choose, Windows will load on the next attempt, so there is no reason to boot into safe mode.
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That's the strange thing, I don't need to try to boot into safe mode. Once it locks up, if I hold down the power button to power down the laptop, and then turn it back on, it takes me to the screen that says Windows did not load properly on the last attempt, and then asks if I want to start Windows normally, or run start-up repair. No matter which I choose, Windows will load on the next attempt, so there is no reason to boot into safe mode.