-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Boot up problem? Need help
- From: David TW Chun <dtwchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:05:23 -0400
Rudy,
I also have problems during reboot. I use Vista which sometimes decides
on it's own to reboot so that the next day when I try to use the
computer, it's locked in the opening reboot screens (showing the 'esc,
function key' buttone to press at the bottom of the screen). What has
worked for me is that I probably have either too many USB devices or
possibly just one or of the USB devices not entirely correctly
recognized by VISTA. I simply unplug the USB that goes to my USB hub
that connects the printers, scanners and craft tool. Then I manually
restart the reboot process (for me, this means pressing the power button
until it turns the computer off; then I press the power button again for
it to reboot). When the OS starts rebooting beyond the first reboot
screen and before requesting the password, I'll plug the USB back in.
Or, I'll simply plug in the USB from the HUB after I've signed in. This
works for me; but I do have to be careful in that sometimes it won't
recognize one of my external drives where I keep my iTunes library
(sometimes it does but sometimes it doesn't and when iTunes can't find
stuff, it'll write new stuff to the default Drive 'C' and I'll have to
manually transfer it to my iTunes library; there isn't enough room on
Drive C so I use a large external drive). For that, I wait until I get
'MY COMPUTER to come up and check that the drive is recognized before
launching iTunes. However, I suspect that if I could load the correct
driver, either for the USB hubs that I use or the speicific device not
recognized by VISTA, that I'll get it to reboot w/o hassel because it if
did before I added a few additional peripherals. Other possibility is
that I just have too many USB things connected (I have 3 or 5 USB
hubs). What is puzzling is that the peripherals that I suspect are not
fully VISTA recognized are usually turned off when rebooting. Plus, all
my peripherals work fine; but I once got a System message that one of my
peripherals did not have the correct driver which caused the failure to
reboot -- the recommendation was to load the correct driver which I
would have if I knew which one to find/load.
Anyway, the failure to reboot in my case is probably USB related. It's
something you might try before doing something more serious.
David
rudy wrote:
>Many times when I first boot up, or sometimes when I reboot my system it
>just hangs. No icons appear and I can wait but nothing as the system is
>frooze. I reboot and usually it is ok though sometimes it take more than one
>reboot. I have throughly scanned for virus, maleware and my system is clean.
>I'm sure a format might fix this but I do not want to format. Any help or
>suggestions/ideas?
>
>Thanks
>Rudy
>
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