Well I unhhoked the USB flatbet scanner, my only USB device and I thought I was good. But just now I booted up for the first time, no desktop icons and an hour gladd when I moved the mouse pointer down around the start in XP. But this time I held in the power switch and it wouldn't reboot! Tried again and now ok.......bummer but thanks! Rudy ----- Original Message ----- From: "David TW Chun" <dtwchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, April 22, 2011 4:05 PM Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Boot up problem? Need help > 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 > > __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 6073 (20110426) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com --------------------------------------------------------------- Please remember to trim your replies (including this sentence and everything below it) and adjust the subject line as necessary. To subscribe, unsubscribe or modify your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk OR To subscribe to the mailing list, send an email to pctechtalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the Subject. To unsubscribe send email to pctechtalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject. To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ To contact only the PCTT Mod Squad, write to: pctechtalk-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To join our separate PCTableTalk off-topic group, send a blank email to: pctabletalk+subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ---------------------------------------------------------------