[access-uk] Re: Laptop not seeming to boot
- From: "Andy Collins" <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:49:21 -0000
Hi all -
Thanks for the suggestions to try and get my laptop up and running again.
Got some help today, and it wouldn't boot because of an improper shutdown
[that I wasn't aware of because I'm still using JFW in 40 min mode, and
speech had stopped] and there was a list of choices on the initial screen to
boot in to safe mode, or to carry on and boot in to Windows, or to do a
repair first then boot. I chose the latter option, and I don't know if
anything was actually repaired ]is there a log perhaps somewhere I could
look at to check] and all is working again!
Thanks again -
Andy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Logue" <plsd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 10:17 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Laptop not seeming to boot
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| Sorry Andy. I'm running under XP. I wish my instructions would be the same
| in Vista, but Vista is probably different. I like your idea of touching
all
| the buttons along the top in a chance of hitting some kind of mute hotkey.
| I've known an involuntary touch of one of these buttons can indeed mute
the
| system. But you'd think a toggle of that same button would bring the
volume
| back on? Hope you get it sorted soon.
|
| 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 9:41 PM
| To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
| Subject: [access-uk] Re: Laptop not seeming to boot
|
| 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
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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 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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