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Vista-32 bit OS load problem
"Gene E. Bloch" wrote in message
... I have too much quoted text for the free NSP so have to cut some text - sorry! On Mon, 28 May 2012 00:10:18 -0500, R. H. Breener Jr. wrote: Try plugging the mouse and drive directly into USB ports on the computer and see how it goes. No guarantees, but it's absolutely what I would do in your situation. -- Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch) I had no idea they could affect how a computer boots up, but it made no difference. |
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Vista-32 bit OS load problem
"Bill Leary" wrote in message ... "Gene E. Bloch" wrote in message ... On Mon, 28 May 2012 17:58:07 -0400, Bill Leary wrote: "Gene E. Bloch" wrote in message ... The mouse and drive plugged into the monitor's USB plugs rings a loud alarm bell for me. USB hubs (that's what you're using) are notorious for trouble. OK, not notorious, but problems are not infrequent, so doing that is not recommended in many situations. I've encountered this enough times that I always plug at least the keyboard directly into the computer. But, in this case I'm pretty sure his problem is that the machine came from the factory with PS/2 keyboard and mouse. So the BIOS is most likely not set up to do USB to PS/2 emulation. Therefore, the keyboard won't work in BIOS. Your point is valid, but he said his mouse is connected to the monitor, his keyboard is connected to the back of the machine. So, as far as BIOS is concerned, if it was doing USB to PS/2 emulation, it would be OK. I think since it's normal configuration was PS/2 it probably just isn't emulating. - Bill Your criticism (constructive!) is valid, of course. I wonder if there are adapters that would allow a USB KB to plug into the PS/2 connector. Or maybe at a rummage sale, he could find an old PS/2 KB. There are. I've got two of them. They came with Microsoft keyboards and mice while ago. They're the green thing in the picture he http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16812338063 - Bill I found an adaptor but the KB will not work at all with the adapter so I had to remove it. I reset the BIOS as per: Step 1: Resetting BIOS First, reset the BIOS to make sure the BIOS settings are correct: Turn on the computer and press F10 repeatedly to open the BIOS setup screen. Press the F5 key to reset the default BIOS settings. Use the arrow keys to select Yes or OK and press Enter . Press the F10 key to save settings and exit. Use the arrow keys to select Yes or OK and press Enter . Turn off the computer. Remove the power cord. Press and hold the power button for five seconds. Reconnect the power cord and turn on the computer. If the startup problem is gone, you are done. It did no good at all. I have the blue screen with the F11 System Recovery but no way to choose it. The KB doesn't work with the blue screen. Now what? Where do I go from here? The disks I made when I bought the PC, of the OS, as per HP.... do not work. The PC will not boot to #1 recovery disk. I must have put almost 40 hrs into this PC since that update and here I sit looking at the blue screen and can't do anything. |
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Vista-32 bit OS load problem
"R.H. Breener" wrote in message ...
I found an adaptor but the KB will not work at all with the adapter so I had to remove it. I reset the BIOS as per: Step 1: Resetting BIOS First, reset the BIOS to make sure the BIOS settings are correct: Turn on the computer and press F10 repeatedly to open the BIOS setup screen. Press the F5 key to reset the default BIOS settings. Use the arrow keys to select Yes or OK and press Enter . Press the F10 key to save settings and exit. Use the arrow keys to select Yes or OK and press Enter . Turn off the computer. Remove the power cord. Press and hold the power button for five seconds. Reconnect the power cord and turn on the computer. If the startup problem is gone, you are done. How did you do all that if, as you say, the keyboard would still not work? Also, that's one of the oddest reset procedures I've ever seen. It did no good at all. I have the blue screen with the F11 System Recovery but no way to choose it. The KB doesn't work with the blue screen. Now what? Where do I go from here? I'd say the jumper reset, but you said you don't feel comfortable doing that. The disks I made when I bought the PC, of the OS, as per HP.... do not work. The PC will not boot to #1 recovery disk. I must have put almost 40 hrs into this PC since that update and here I sit looking at the blue screen and can't do anything. I should have probably asked this earlier... where are you? I don't mean street address but country / state ? I want to see if I can suggest someone you might take it to. - Bill |
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Vista-32 bit OS load problem
On Wed, 30 May 2012 01:27:53 -0500, R. H. Breener Jr. wrote:
"Gene E. Bloch" wrote in message ... I have too much quoted text for the free NSP so have to cut some text - sorry! On Mon, 28 May 2012 00:10:18 -0500, R. H. Breener Jr. wrote: Try plugging the mouse and drive directly into USB ports on the computer and see how it goes. No guarantees, but it's absolutely what I would do in your situation. -- Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch) I had no idea they could affect how a computer boots up, but it made no difference. First, it was a bit of a semi-desperate shot in the dark. When things are bad, try everything... Second, it wasn't about how the computer booted, but about how the hardware was detected. Hubs are bad sometimes (been there, been annoyed!). In your case it was the mouse, not the keyboard, IIRC, but as I said, desperate situations call for desperate measures. -- Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch) |
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Vista-32 bit OS load problem
"webster72n" wrote in message ... R. H. Breener Jr. wrote: ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Leary" Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windows.vista.general Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2012 11:27 AM Subject: Vista-32 bit OS load problem One assumes you'll have to turn it off sometime. When you do, please note the blue screen particulars. Or, if you can take clear picture of it, do so and send it to me. The address here is my actual email address. The blue screen says, at the top, Hewlett Packard Invent. Under that are several choices: F11 = System Recovery. F10 = Setup Esc = Boot Menu You mean to say that when you press Esc the boot menu doesn't come up? No. When the blue screen is there, nothing happens. It's like it's not connected to the KB or mouse. It's like the PC is in another world somewhere. |
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Vista-32 bit OS load problem
wrote in message ... REFORMAT YOUR COMPUTERS AND INSTALL OPEN SOURCE LINUX UBUNTU 12.04 LONG TERM SUPPORT RELEASE 2 WEB! JUST FYI! THREAD CLOSED! I can only reformat using the HP copy of Vista. Of course that reformats and then installs Vista. I have no choice. |
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Vista-32 bit OS load problem
"webster72n" wrote in message ... R. H. Breener Jr. wrote: ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Leary" Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windows.vista.general Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2012 11:27 AM Subject: Vista-32 bit OS load problem One assumes you'll have to turn it off sometime. When you do, please note the blue screen particulars. Or, if you can take clear picture of it, do so and send it to me. The address here is my actual email address. The blue screen says, at the top, Hewlett Packard Invent. Under that are several choices: F11 = System Recovery. F10 = Setup Esc = Boot Menu You mean to say that when you press Esc the boot menu doesn't come up? When that screen comes up the KB doesn't work so I can't select anything. No, the Esc key doesn't work. I have to shut the PC off, wait a few seconds and turn it on again. After a few tries, the OS finally loads. That's it, but no choices can be made. That window will sit there forever or until I shut the PC off and try again. After I shut it off just now to get the information you wanted, the blue screen came up, then changed to the black screen that says "Windows Didn't Load". Then the usual "startup repair" window opened saying it will fix problems automatically that it finds. It does a system-recovery. This happens every few times but it never fixes the problem. Usually the blue screen will just hang there or the black screen with the blinking - until I shut the PC off and try again. This is very frustrating. I found the original Recovery disks made when I bought this PC but have never used them. Recoveries were made from the OS on the D: drive partition. |
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Vista-32 bit OS load problem
"Bill Leary" wrote in message ... "R. H. Breener Jr." wrote in message ... It still takes 2 or 3 tries before the PC will boot. Googling online I found this is a common problem but found no solution. What can I try next? I want to see if we can get you into the setup screens and tell the machine to restore BIOS settings. But without a working keyboard, this is difficult. The way to do it without a keyboard isn't that complicated, but depending on how the machine has been customized, it could totally disable it. And comparing what you've said about the machine and what I've found out about it's factory setup, it's definitely been customized. So, let's not go there just yet. Note that this is not Windows restore we're talking about. You've done that already. This is much lower level than that. Open the following page, which has the technical data for your computer. http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/d...roduct=3715498 Then scroll down until you get to the section titled "I/O PORTS" and the subsection "BACK I/O PORTS". The port marked 1 is the PS/2 mouse connector and the one marked 14 is PS/2 keyboard connector. From the data a but further on it appears the machine came with a PS/2 keyboard and mouse. Please verify, did your original keyboard and mouse plug into these connectors? I honestly don't remember as I replaced the cheap flimsy KB a few days after buying the computer and that was several years ago. The original mouse died and was also repleced after about 2 years. Both KB and mouse are plugged into USB ports and have been since back then. I think the original KB is still out in the storage building. The mouse was thrown away. The four connectors marked with 12 are USB ports. There are also two more of these on the front of the machine. Do you new mouse and keyboard plug into any of these connectors? They could but there are also USB ports on the HP monitor that came with the PC. They're plugged in there. It's keeps them out of the way. And while we're collecting information, is there anything else plugged into any of those USB ports? Front or rear? I have a Seagate backup drive also connected by a USB port but tried removing that and it made no difference. Is there anything plugged into the IEEE 1394a connector, marked 4? The back of my PC doesn't look like that at all and there is no IEEE 1394a connector. Nothing resembling the picture. Also observe the VGA connector, marked 3 on the picture. From what you've said about video related errors, I’m pretty sure your monitor is not plugged in here, but please just let us know for sure. Yes, although my machine doesn't look like that at all. It's the only connector that the monitor could be plugged into. This is the original monitor that came with the PC. Again, from what you've said, I expect you monitor is plugged into a card in a PCI slot, immediately to the right of the connectors marked 8, 9 and 10 on the picture. No. It would never fit in one of those. The only place it can fit is where it is - the VGA connector. So, the questions a 1. Did your original keyboard and mouse plug into the PS/2 connectors 1 & 14 ? I can't sure as mentioned above. But I've been using this mouse and KB for years now without a problem. 2. Do your current keyboard and mouse plug into the USB connectors marked 12 (or the similar ports on the front) ? Yes. 3. Is there anything else plugged into any of the USB connectors marked 12 (or the similar ports on the front) ? Occasionally I plug in the Flash Drive to move information to the laptop. That's nothing new either. Now it appears the dog got the flash drive because we can't find it. 4. Is anything plugged into the IEEE 1394a connector marked 4 ? That doesn't exist in my computer. Nothing looks like that back there. 5. Is your monitor plugged into the VGA connector marked 3 ? Yes. 6. Is your monitor plugged into the PCI x16 slot, immediately to the right of the audio (8, 9 & 10) connectors ? It doesn't look like that behind my PC so I can't say. It looks more like 12 where it's plugged in. I followed the original directions as to where to plug things in that came with the PC. Looking forward to hearing back from you. Oh, you say that you found that this is a common problem. Please give me the URL of one or two of those pages you found. Just Google "Computer wont start" or "Vista fails to boot"... or something similar and you'll have reading material for a week. - Bill |
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Vista-32 bit OS load problem - WRONG PC!!!!!!!
"Bill Leary" wrote in message ... Open the following page, which has the technical data for your computer. http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/d...roduct=3715498 My PC is the Pavilion a6333w http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/s...&lc=en&submit= |