That's what I did. I chose the "State As Shipped" when prompted and I don't
recall it taking more than 10 minutes to do. I then had to go in and
reinstall everything else.

Do I need to redo this process and choose something else?

"Shenan Stanley" wrote:

> kem wrote:
> > I kept receiving error messages when I logged on. The messages
> > varied but they mainly said "Previous Shutdown due to Thermal
> > Event". I always shut down my computer the correct way.
> >
> > When I'd get theses messages I'd go into Set Up and clear them and
> > usually it let me log back on correctly. It had just gotten to
> > where I could not log on with out going through 5 minutes of
> > clearing messages.
> >
> > I was told to hit ctrl and F11 as my computer was starting up so I
> > don't know what you call this.
>
> Again - go by my posting...
>
> Reboot - turn off/on (sort of) -- usually takes less than 10 minutes.
>
> Reinstall - to install the operating system again (sometimes all software,
> etc) - would take significantly longer than 10 minutes.
>
> Which was done?
>
> (Depending on the make/model of computer you have - CTRL+F11 may be how to
> start the restoration process - and wipe everything and return it to the
> as-shipped state.)
>
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