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Hi there
I've searched the net fro info about this but I just don't get any wiser.
Here's the story.
Installed a HP photosmart 516 (so that you can print out photos). All worked
fine eventhough it wasn't "certified" for Vista. I printed pictures and so on
- worked normally on it with office programs and windows mail. I went away
from it for a couple of days (it goes into standby - and my husband told me
that one night he woke up because it started by itself and then it shut
down??!!) Coming back and restarting the desktop made it almost freeze BEFORE
even running the BIOS. I thought that there was something wrong with the BIOS
and have even looked for updates at HP's webpages. But it's not
that.....after about 15 min it starts as always no problems.
Of course I got annyoed with this one evening so I went into Safe Mode to
see if there was any difference in doing that....Being in there I decided to
make a "System Restore" to see if that could help. So that's what I did.
After this it only starts in Safe Mode!!!
But it doesn't wait for 15 min before loading the BIOS or whatever it's
working with...
I have been trying to System Restore even further back....no changes.
Then I went into msconfig and tried a few things that I read on the net.
Still the same.
I brought it with me to my work where we are 3 that works with IT in hope
that 3 pair of eyes may see more than one pair.
And we came up with making a new user with admin rights and then changing
again in msconfig to not make "Safe Boot" (this underneath "Boot"). Then it
can start the right way BUT then it doesn't allow some programs to startup??!!
OKay we then took away the programs from the startup folder. Still the same
problem because then it was msconfig that was the new problem ...not being
permitted to run in startup (wherever that came from??)
Everytime we go into msconfig and choose the option that we want windows run
normally then it by itself marks that it should start in Safe Mode (under
"Boot")?
Even when chooseing from F8 that it should start normally - it starts in
Safe Mode.
I'm getting grey hairs and loseing hair too from this - because we have
absolutely no idea how to stop it from misbehaving. ---- Sure --- we could
reinstall it and I could make a back up of all the files.....but then I
still wouldn't know what the problem was or whether it will suddenly happen
again -- beside that I've had it for so little time that I haven't made
"discovery disk's" yet... --- clever me ;-)
Are there anybody out there that have heard about anything like this or
there might have a brilliant idea???
Thanks in advance & Wishing you all a nice day
I've searched the net fro info about this but I just don't get any wiser.
Here's the story.
Installed a HP photosmart 516 (so that you can print out photos). All worked
fine eventhough it wasn't "certified" for Vista. I printed pictures and so on
- worked normally on it with office programs and windows mail. I went away
from it for a couple of days (it goes into standby - and my husband told me
that one night he woke up because it started by itself and then it shut
down??!!) Coming back and restarting the desktop made it almost freeze BEFORE
even running the BIOS. I thought that there was something wrong with the BIOS
and have even looked for updates at HP's webpages. But it's not
that.....after about 15 min it starts as always no problems.
Of course I got annyoed with this one evening so I went into Safe Mode to
see if there was any difference in doing that....Being in there I decided to
make a "System Restore" to see if that could help. So that's what I did.
After this it only starts in Safe Mode!!!
But it doesn't wait for 15 min before loading the BIOS or whatever it's
working with...
I have been trying to System Restore even further back....no changes.
Then I went into msconfig and tried a few things that I read on the net.
Still the same.
I brought it with me to my work where we are 3 that works with IT in hope
that 3 pair of eyes may see more than one pair.
And we came up with making a new user with admin rights and then changing
again in msconfig to not make "Safe Boot" (this underneath "Boot"). Then it
can start the right way BUT then it doesn't allow some programs to startup??!!
OKay we then took away the programs from the startup folder. Still the same
problem because then it was msconfig that was the new problem ...not being
permitted to run in startup (wherever that came from??)
Everytime we go into msconfig and choose the option that we want windows run
normally then it by itself marks that it should start in Safe Mode (under
"Boot")?
Even when chooseing from F8 that it should start normally - it starts in
Safe Mode.
I'm getting grey hairs and loseing hair too from this - because we have
absolutely no idea how to stop it from misbehaving. ---- Sure --- we could
reinstall it and I could make a back up of all the files.....but then I
still wouldn't know what the problem was or whether it will suddenly happen
again -- beside that I've had it for so little time that I haven't made
"discovery disk's" yet... --- clever me ;-)
Are there anybody out there that have heard about anything like this or
there might have a brilliant idea???
Thanks in advance & Wishing you all a nice day