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I have a 2018 Lenovo ideapad. It was working fine up until a few weeks ago when I downloaded the FXSound EQ and Sound Enhancer. Ever since then my laptop has been acting fucked up. The OS is lagging - It takes 30-60sec to open a file, it's slow to connect to wifi (takes around 10mins) and now today it won't boot at all. I started it up and it was saying "Preparing Automatic Repair" - I looked up troubleshooting instructions online and followed them, but my laptop kept going in a loop - same thing kept happening 3 times. NOW my laptop screen is black and it's loud - like it's trying to repair something. It's been like this for over 30mins and I'm getting really pissed off. WTF do I do? Do I let it keep trying to boot or should I shut it off and restart it? I don't have a boot CD (or even a CD/DVD drive on the computer) and I'm out of options.

Edit: After over an hour it finally told me what's wrong, it's either missing

EDIT 2: It's the next day and I don't even want to touch my laptop because it's gonna make me really angry My patience for technical problems declines every year.

I have a 2018 Lenovo ideapad. It was working fine up until a few weeks ago when I downloaded the FXSound EQ and Sound Enhancer. Ever since then my laptop has been acting fucked up. The OS is lagging - It takes 30-60sec to open a file, it's slow to connect to wifi (takes around 10mins) and now today it won't boot at all. I started it up and it was saying "Preparing Automatic Repair" - I looked up troubleshooting instructions online and followed them, but my laptop kept going in a loop - same thing kept happening 3 times. NOW my laptop screen is black and it's loud - like it's trying to repair something. It's been like this for over 30mins and I'm getting really pissed off. WTF do I do? Do I let it keep trying to boot or should I shut it off and restart it? I don't have a boot CD (or even a CD/DVD drive on the computer) and I'm out of options. Edit: After over an hour it finally told me what's wrong, it's either missing [A Kernel is missing or contains errors](https://pic8.co/sh/ZAgpkd.jpg) EDIT 2: It's the next day and I don't even want to touch my laptop because it's gonna make me really angry My patience for technical problems declines every year.

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ntoskrnl.exe is related to high memory usage. Your RAM might need to be updated. That is the most probable solution. Anyway.

I'm assuming you're on a different PC at the moment?

Best thing to do for now is download windows on a usb (buy usb at walmart or something. They're cheap.). https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

After you're done installing that on usb, do this:

1) Plug usb in laptop 2) Boot into bios (usually keep pressing f8 or f12 or esc while the computer is starting up and bios will load) 3) Once in bios, find the section that allows you to select your usb port as the default startup option 4) save, exit and restart 5) Your windows repair shit will begin and fix the kernal issue. Just make sure you don't select "install windows" or anything. Just do repair.

Option 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aeq98yemV1s

Option 3: Only do this if you happen to log in to windows without a recovery disc:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7UhdU9j52g