Re: Computer will not boot with power applied to printer

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The computer BIOS probably thinks that the card readers in the printer are bootable devices and it tries to boot these devices instead of the hard drive, the same thing often happens when you leave a USB thumb drive plugged in. Go in the BIOS and check the boot options and boot device order/priority.

John

Old Redneck wrote:
This is VERY STRANGE.

I'm running an HP a1140n desktop with WinXP SP3. No problems with the computer.

Connected to the printer are several USB devices:
-- HP Laserjet 1320 printer (which has been in use for three years)
-- Epson V500 scanner (installed six months ago, works fine)
-- Seagate ???? external hard drive that I use for backup

Last night I installed a new HP D7560 PhotoSmart printer. The installation and setup went smoothly and I can print plain paper and photo paper with this printer.

The problem is this: When the PhotoSmart printer is turned on, the computer will not boot. In order to get the computer to boot, I must turn off power to the PhotoSmart printer -- don't need to disconnect the USB cable from computer to printer -- just turn off the power.

I have tried this several times -- turn computer off, turn printer on, turn on computer and see the HP splash screen then, nothing, nothing at all -- nothing on the monitor, computer not booting. Push the power switch on the computer to turn it off, turn the printer off, and the computer boots without a problem.

If I turn the PhotoSmart printer on after the computer boots, everything works fine.

Now, I plan to use this printer only to print photos -- the laser printer is my default printer, so, it won't hurt anything to leave the PhotoSmart printer turned off and turn it one when I need it -- and, I'll save electricity by not leaving the PhotoSmart printer turned on all the time.

Still - this is strange.


And -- one more thing -- starting about two weeks ago, whenever I boot the computer, it boots normally and, after it's booted, Windows Explorer (NOT Internet Explorer) opens to the HP folder in the Program Files directory. This started long before I installed the PhotoSmart printer so the two occurrences are not related.



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