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| Posted: 10:30pm 04 Jun 2026 |
@ Volhout: I will look for an older restore point, but the last laptop I had this issue with a couple of weeks ago, rolling back to an older restore point did NOT fix the problem. The restore completed fine(W11 message saying so), but upon rebooting, the same boot-fail/reboot problem was still there.
Question #2 is more then I can tell you, as I never noted the details of the WiFi chip on the first problem laptop.
I'd like to say at this point, that client #1 has been running happily on Linux Mint now for more then a week and they love it - no problems to report, and they are stunned that it just does what they ask of it. No ad pop-up's, no bloody co-pilot constantly offering help, etc.
I feel another Mint install pending for this new laptop with the same problem....
....but I digress.
@ TassyJim: Yes, I get the feeling that W11 is jealous of my new Linux girlfriend and how happy we are together as opposed to W11's constant nagging.
Good idea on the USB WiFi thing - I think I have a dongle around here somewhere.
I also agree - it should not MATTER that W11 can't find the network, it should still boot to the desktop. Perhaps moan THEN about no internet/can't sync to the MS account blah, blah, blah, but you don't even get that far. During boot-up, it moans that it can't find the network, then fails to boot even to the desktop. Your only option is to press ENTER, and when you do that, W11 just reboots back into the same error. It's really rather frustrating.
Remember: when it fails, you CAN get into the network connection, select the WiFi network W11 SHOULD be hopping on to any way, enter the password for that, W11 says it's connected, then when you tell it to proceed, it falls over anyway saying it can't find the network connection - even though you just manually pointed W11 to it and connected to it about 20 seconds before.
@ phil99: Yeah, I am wondering if it is some kind of balls-up BIOS change that an update tried to do. That WOULD cause this kind of problem.....
@ JohnS: Yes, on the last machine, I could get into the BIOS, but the boot-order was set correctly for W11, and W11 IS TRYING to boot, so the boot process is under way when it falls over.
Just another day in W11 paradise........
....or should that be Hell? (rhetorical!)