Sluggish StartUp I woke my notebook up from Sleep Mode the other day to find a blue screen with the "We had to shut down to keep from losing any data" message. It told me to shut down then restart. Nothing was responding at all, so the only way I could get the thing to shut down was to kill the power. Since then when I turn it on, it sits there for a good 20 minutes, doing nothing with a black screen, then starts up like nothing was wrong. I have gone through the device manager, and searched for new drivers for everything I could think might need one. The only one I got was an updated touchpad mouse driver. Does anyone have a clue what's going on? Thanks, Matt

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