Hi Peter -
Thanks for this further suggestion; I'm wondering if this is the same
within
Vista? Volume is a bit different in Vista, there are separate tabs now for
JFW volume, and system volume, so things might not be in the same order as
for XP.
I don't think it is about volume being muted, but of course, I'll try all
suggestions, but on this laptop, there are touch pad buttons near the
speakers, that operate volume, and can mute the system, so by moving my
fingers over these, if volume had been muted, it should bring get back,
and
whether these buttons are activated or not, each touch of them produces a
soft click sound, which obviously is created by the sound card, so as I'm
hearing no click sound at all when I move my fingers over this touch pad,
that suggests to me that the sound drivers haven't been loaded, so the
boot
up hasn't reached the desk top.
I wonder if my mobile would take a viewable pic of the screen to send to
somebody that might be able to read what is on the screen at this stage.
Any
thoughts?
-
Andy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Logue" <plsd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 9:18 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Laptop not seeming to boot
| Hi Andy,
| Can I just offer one more suggestion? I'm going on the basis that the
| computer is indeed booting into desktop but, as suggested by someone on
the
| list, the volume has been muted. If you can see this as a possibility,
| here's a fix. You have to do the following step by step exactly.
|
| Turn the computer on and let it do its thing for a good few minutes or
until
| we assume that it has booted into the desktop.
| Now, do the following exactly.
| Hit the windows key and touch the letter R. This will bring up the run
| dialog box.
| Your focus will be in that box, so now.
| type sndvol32 into the run command edit box and hit enter.
| This will bring up the speaker volume control.
| If we assume that the volume speaker control is now on the screen.
| Now. Tab 2 times and then touch the spacebar.
| If that checkbox has been checked, you should now have sound.
|
| Peter Logue
|
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|
| Skype: clydeview2008
| -----Original Message-----
| From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of
| Andy Collins
| Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 4:35 PM
| To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
| Subject: [access-uk] Re: Laptop not seeming to boot
|
| Thanks Peter, I followed what you said, but unfortunately it didn't
work,
| but I'll bear it in mind another time, for I can see how it's one
| possibility -
|
| Andy
| ----- Original Message -----
| From: "Peter Logue" <plsd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 1:31 PM
| Subject: [access-uk] Re: Laptop not seeming to boot
|
|
|| Hi Andy,
|| My first guess is that you are stuck halfway through the login on an
| option
|| that might be start windows in safe mode.
|| If this is the case, What I'd do is give the computer a good couple of
|| minutes from turn on, then hit the enter key and sit and wait. If your
|| computer was sitting on the option to reboot in safe mode, it should
|| continue in that mode right into the desktop. You likely won't have
sound
| at
|| this point, But wait a moment or three and you can then try a restart.
||
|| Peter Logue
||
||
||
||
||
|| Skype: clydeview2008
|| -----Original Message-----
|| From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf
| Of
|| Andy Collins
|| Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 12:50 PM
|| To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
|| Subject: [access-uk] Laptop not seeming to boot
||
|| Hi all
||
|| I'm using JFW in 40 min mode on my laptop, and things have been ok
until
|| this morning.
||
|| I now can't get the laptop to reboot, when I power on, I get no sound,
not
|| even the Vista tinkle tune, and of course, no JFW to tell me if I'm on
the
|| log on screen
||
|| I've tried removing the battery, and I've checked if I've muted sound
by
|| inadvertently touching the touch pads above the function keys, but I
don't
|| seem to have done this, I'm pretty sure I'm not getting to the log on
|| screen!
||
|| I can't get Narrator to run, and usually if I put a cd in the drive, it
|| would come up playing in WMP, but now the drive just spins up to speed,
| and
|| then stops again.
||
|| Any ideas please? Oh yes, it is plugged in too <smile> -
||
|| Andy
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