i have seen issues exactly like that with a failing printer. try
removing all the usb connections from the pc, including hubs. and see
if it will boot usb back on after that. then one by one connect
everything back. a sometimes it will post with everything plugged back
in. i would asume it is the printer in this case because of the odd
stuff it was giving you. sorry if this is late. just came back from
vacation.
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 9:43 PM, Eben King <eben01@verizon.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Eben King wrote:
>
>> I rebooted my computer because I couldn't make the printer stop spewing
>> garbage, and it wouldn't start back up. It does the POST, then the SCSI
>> card offers to boot from a SCSI drive (I have none), then I get a solid
>> character cell followed by a flashing character cell. I took out the SCSI
>> card and disabled PATA, SATA, serial, parallel, and USB audio. No change.
>> It won't boot from a CD either, and it normally does. Any ideas?
>
> Turns out that if USB is enabled in the BIOS, it does that flashing-cursor
> thing. So now I'm up with no USB, EXCEPT for some reason the USB-serial
> thingy (pl2303) works.
>
> Maybe if I fudged the boot order it would successfully boot from the hard
> drive or CD before it hung looking for a USB drive. No idea why it would
> fail, or if it did indeed fail. It might that be a hub went haywire, or a
> cable's subtly damaged.
>
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