I have Bootitng installed on my system and normally it comes up fine. I power up, the Dell splash screen appears, then the bootitng screen comes up asking me to select:
Boot (an op system), Maintenence, or Direct boot. This has worked flawlessly.
However this morning (Thursday), after powering up, the Dell splash screen displayed but the screen then went blank and the bootitng screen never come up.
I powered down and up a couple of times and had the same negative results. I have not done anything to my system EXCEPT:
The day before (Wednesday), I had uninstalled an HP 5510 all-in-one printer (that was hooked up to a print server), and then re-installed it as a usb printer directly to this system. After the printer was reinstalled (and working Wednesday), I powered the system down (until this morning when I tried powering back up and had the boot problems). As mentioned above, I tried powering down and up a couple of time with negative results.
Therefore, as the printer reinstall was the last thing I did to my system before the problems started (on a power on BOOT), I pulled the printers usb cable out and tried to boot again.
The Dell splash screen appeared, then a 4 line message appeared but went away so fast I could not see what it said. But then the Bootitng screen came up and allowed me to boot XP.
So, I guess the question(s) are:
1. Could the printer being hooked up have anything to do with this. Certainly, I can plug it back in (and I will), but if it is causing the problem, why? It just occured to me that I have not unhooked the Printserver from the system yet. Possibly that could be hanging things up so I can also unplug this print server.
2. Also, is there anyway I can view that message that appeared so quickly. I know this message never appeared before.
3. And (as a quicky freebe question), can I turn off indexing services? I have heard it slows things down.
I am a little leary about trying to reboot until I possibly get some directions from you guys/gals.
Thanks as always,
Bob
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