Win10 1909. Refurbished Lenovo Thinkpad W520. SSD. Came with Win10 Home. I upgraded to Pro. Fully updated. Most of its time in use has been upgrading and updating.
Four updates installed on 7/8/20. One Adobe Flash and three Windows. KB456059, KB4560960, and KB4497165. Now it will not complete a boot cycle.
Restart. Reaches splash screen for login. Disk drive light flashing a regular pattern. Password entered. Enter key struck. Welcome screen comes up, then screen comes up with error message box in tempo with flashing light. It flashes too rapidly to read completely. It seems to say “system profile cannot be located” .
It appears to be turning off and on rapidly.
I have tried restarting many times. Just get to the almost able to read error message.
Tried to boot with one each of the following: Win10 (1909) USB install drive; Win10 (1909) USB Repair drive; Win10(1909) DVD; Acronis Recovery Drive.
Never get past the error message with the first two. Don’t get the message box with the DVD. Screen flashes between black and blacker (not kidding) with a task bar showing on the blacker with a non-working start button, a non-working search box, a clock reporting Zulu Time, and a non-functioning notification icon.
Using ctrl, alt, delete I can restart or shut down. I can also reach task manager, which offers to create new task. At times I can type a task name. At most times, the flashing is too rapid. It also offers to open internet resource, so I tried Firefox. It opens, but does not connect.
If I could get it to recognize one of the USBs or the DVD, I could probably get along alright from there. It has booted from each in the past. Safe Boot is off. I just checked the boot settings. It is set to use either CD or USB.
Thanks for any help you can give me.
eckis
