Mouse pointer/CD/RW/HP Invent Logo/ Very strange

Mysterious Happenings, Please Help! All of a sudden my mouse pointer and scrolling becomes jerky, or moves in pulses. When this happens I know that when I reboot the HP Invent Logo will stay on for 1 min and 10 seconds instead of the norman 2 or 3 seconds when I boot, and I know that my CD/RW will not work. In fact the system will not even detect it. Everything else seems normal. Just as mysteriously, sometime later, maybe in an hour or two or maybe the next day, or who knows when. everything will return to normal. It seems nothing I do helps or hinders.

 

If its got the HP invent logo then I'm guessing its new kit ? (they havent been using that for too long)

If so it must have a warranty - the commercial stuff is usually one year and the corporate 3 year

I'd reccomend contacting you reseller/warranty supplier as this could take some time to track down

 

Hi Andy, thx for the reply. The HP Logo is the first thing that comes on at bootup but is usually off before the monitor lightens up. It is a normal part of bootup but when my problem occurs for some reason it changes the time it is on and it's pretty precise at that, changing it from abt 3 seconds to 1 min and 10 seconds. It also disables the CD-ROM. This computer is over a year and a half old and came with XP installed. I worked a couple hours trying to track it down this morning when the CD-ROM just started working and the bootup time returned to normal. I am kind of suspecting the software with my battery backup might have something to do with it but that is just a wild guess.

 

I would guess that whilst the logo is on the screen it is doing something else behind it (looking for some hardware or something similar, this is often the case with SCSI cards installed as they scan the whole bus looking for devices)

Assuming you do not have a SCSI card in there I thinks its losing the CD device for some reason, spends its time looking for it, gives up and continues.

If you remove the CD/RW from the sytem, does this stop the problem form ever happening ? (inconvenient to do I know)

If this is the case I'd suggest changing the IDE cable to the drive

At this point I'm fairly certain that its hardware so you may be as well to move this post to the hardware forums ?

 

Andy, that sounds very logical and it gives me a better understanding of the boot proccess. I think you hit the nail on the head. I will check the CD/RW out. I still wonder about the mouse pointer and scrolling going in spurts. It is when this happens that I know that the other 2 symptons (long boot time and no CD/RW)will show up the next time I boot. I threw away one good mouse before I realized it wasn't the mouse that was causing it. (acts like a dirty mouse roller) About 30 days before this started happening I had installed some RAM and I wonder if I bumped the CD/RW cable. Still doesn't explain the mouse thing though. Do you suppose the mouse or CD/RW software has become corrupted? Last time it done it I wasn't doing anything. Had just booted and left it running on the Desktop. Came back abt 15 minutes later and the mouse wouldn't work right so I rebooted, sure enough, I had the logo a long time and no CD/RW when it finished booting.

I still have one serious problem. Why DID the Kamakazi pilots wear helmuts?

 

Hardware faults can manifest themselves starngely in software. I've (several times) before seen mouse oddities be linked to all kinds of other things.

Kamikaze thing is just one of those questions isnt it. If you're relatively new to the boards you wont remember that someone once had a go at various people on this board about various things (totally ignoring the voluntary help that many people put into this). he actually managed to take my sig seriously...!

Sometimes you just wonder why.....

 

The question shouldn't be "Why did Kamikaze pilots wear helmets? ", but "Why did Kamikaze pilots wear parachutes? "

 

Interesting point !

Alongside what are a "hap" or a "feck" and why is it bad to be without one i.e. hapless or feckless ?

 

Moved from XP to Hardware.