Must Press Spacebar or HP Splash Screen Hangs There Indefinitely

Weirdest thing ever... A little background first. I had a VERY hard time getting this computer to do a recovery to factory settings. After about 11 attempts switching between disc set ordered from HP and the recovery discs I made from the computer it FINALLY finished. (All other attempts I got a message that said recovery failed and then had the option of three choices...something like "View Log" "Save Log' and "Retry") What I did that FINALLY let the recovery finish all the way was to press the spacebar on keyboard every time the HP splash screen came up. Then, the little white circles under the hp logo would start moving and it would go on to the next part of the software/driver installation. Now, however, every time I restart the computer I HAVE to press the spacebar once or it just hangs on the hp splash screen. I have done ALL windows updates and all driver updates via HP website. The only additional software I have installed is Mozilla Firefox. I have reset BIOS to factory defaults - Secure Boot back on since I had to disable it to install with discs. Little things like time & date are correct. I've run diagnostic on all hardware and it passes.PLEASE HELP!!!! I have never encountered anything like this before and I am at a loss as to how to fix it!!!!!!!!!! Thank-you for taking the time to respond!!!

HI , Thank you for your query. I grasp that you must press the spacebar whenever the HP splash screen appears to continue. You have done all the Windows and HP updates but the difficulty remains. You have also reset the bios back to factory. What is the current version of your bios? Have you ran the Windows troubleshooter? If you start in Safe Mode does the difficulty remain? HP PCs - Windows 8 Safe Mode Would you please try this step.Go to the command prompt and run as administratorType sfc /scannow and press enter This will scan for corrupted files and try to repair them.Once this completes please restart your notebook and run one more time. If the issue remains please try to determine the offending program uisng system configuration.Using System Configuration (msconfig)Please note the section on services. I suggest you use the 50/50 method to narrow down the results.Hide all microsoft services.Disable 1/2 of the servies and try starting your notebook to see if the difficulty remains.If it does go back and enable the first 50% and disable the other 50% ( remember to hide Microsoft services) and restart.Continue in this manner to determine if a particular service is causing the issue. Next I would try a refresh your PC. This should reinstall the operating sytstem but not affect your personal files.HP PCs - Refresh Your PC to Resolve Problems (Windows 8). You can contact HP support for assistance. They can remotely access your notebook to help find and fix the difficulty.Please contact HP support at Contact HP Support To say thanks for replying please click the thumbs up button below. If this resolved your difficulty, please notify people by choosing solution provided. Best of Luck!

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Hi
Thanks fo this piece of code. This one really help me
Deepa

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I built my barebones pc a week ago, using amd athlon 64 3500+, on an MSI K9MM_V motherboard. Everything perfect until about an hour ago, when it suddenly shut down, and when I tried to reboot it freezes on the MSI splash screen (which says hit "del" for setup, hit "f1" for post.) Neither works, I cannot do anything whatsoever. Cannot even get into the bios. There is power to the mobo, lights and fans are all working, hard drives spinning, i tried resetting the bios by taking the battery out for about a half hour, i pressed on all connectors to make sure properly seated, etc, everything looks fine. This sounds to me like a motherboard problem, please someone let me know what you think. Remember, the thing is, there is NO POST, NO NOTHING, JUST THE MSI SPLASH SCREEN, WHICH DISPLAYS INDEFINITELY. ctrl+alt+del does nothing. I tried another keyboard, just for the hell of it. I don't know what to do. I bought the barebones kit from TigerDirect.com, and I know that they will probably give me an rma but how can I be sure it is the motherboard that is bad, not the CPU? It was running so nicely, Vista Home Premium. Thanks for help anyone!!!

Thanks for all the replies. I tried the reset button as suggested by fenelonm, it did not help. Then I followed the specific directions to reset cmos as posted by Henry. For Grayone, here is the entire system:
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ Socket AM2 CPU
Maxtor 200 GB EIDE hd
Sabrent Ultra ATA 100/133 IDE RAID PCI Control card (Currently supporting 3 additional ide hard drives that I use for storage only.)
Thermaltake A4022 TR2-R1 CPU Fan socket am2
crucial 1044MB PC 4200 DDR2 533Mhz ram
ThermalTake silent cat case fan
MSI K9MM-V Socket AM2 motherboard
Power Up Mid T ATX Case w 450WPSU
BFG Geforce 6200 256 ram AGP video card
thats about it. I could be so so wrong here but given that I get nothing but the MSI logo on the screen and can go no further, doesn't that have to be either the CPU or the systemboard?? What else could it possibly be? If the CPU were dead, would I still get the MSI logo splash screen? This is my dilemma, when I call Tiger Direct I want to be pretty sure which component is bad. Keeping in mind all the while, the system performed perfectly for a week. The last thing I did on it was print out a PDF file, went fine. then shut down, then splash screen, end of the fun......

X2200 won't boot, doesn't get past sun splash screen

Hi All,
I am having a problem with a x2200. I am unable to enter the BIOS by pressing F2 at the splash screen. Also, it will not boot from any attached devices. I am able to access the ELOM just fine. I have tried to upgrade and downgrade the BIOS but according to the ELOM only the BMC version is ever updated. I have also tried removing the memory from the system, but the ELOM reports that the memory is still present which I find very strange.
In the event log the following error is shown several times:
BIOS/POST Watchdog timeout cause STR_HARD_RESET
Does anyone have a suggestion of something else to try? or need more information about the problem to render a suggestion?
Some additional information:
currently BIOS Version : S39_3B13
BMC Version : I have tried 1.91, 2.70 (corresponding to the BIOS version), 2.91, 3.20
FYI, This is a brand new x2200 that has sat for about a year and half that I am now just getting to, so it is out of warranty.
Thanks for the help, cheers
Dan

Dan-MN wrote:
Hi All,
I am having a problem with a x2200. I am unable to enter the BIOS by pressing F2 at the splash screen. Also, it will not boot from any attached devices. I am able to access the ELOM just fine. I have tried to upgrade and downgrade the BIOS but according to the ELOM only the BMC version is ever updated. I have also tried removing the memory from the system, but the ELOM reports that the memory is still present which I find very strange.
In the event log the following error is shown several times:
BIOS/POST Watchdog timeout cause STR_HARD_RESET
Does anyone have a suggestion of something else to try? or need more information about the problem to render a suggestion?
Some additional information:
currently BIOS Version : S39_3B13
BMC Version : I have tried 1.91, 2.70 (corresponding to the BIOS version), 2.91, 3.20
FYI, This is a brand new x2200 that has sat for about a year and half that I am now just getting to, so it is out of warranty.
Thanks for the help, cheers
DanHi, I've had the exact same problem.
Replacing RAM sticks in an X 2200 M2, from 2 x 2 GB DDR2 to 4 x 512 MB.
I had a monitor plugged to the machine, but no display. LED's were green and "OK".
I could connect just fine to the SP web interface, so I checked the "event log" from there. I got this message each time the machine tried to start:
BIOS/POST Watchdog timeout cause STR_HARD_RESETThe SP still found 2 x 2048 MB RAM, but there were four DIMMS in use in the server. Even though the server had 4 x 512 MB (also original "Sun" RAM, from another Sun Fire X2xxx machine).They were connected just as stated on the large barebone lid sticker.
Nor did it help me, clearing the CMOS.
After connecting the original RAM sticks again, the server started just fine.
I am running the latest SP firmware and latest BIOS version for X2200 M2.
/Kenneth

Toshiba sattelite pro l40 stuck at splash screen

i was resizing some partitions and when i restart, it freezes at lubuntu starting up, restart again? stuck at toshiba splash screen. if theres no battery and just ac, f2 says enterring setup but stays in splashscreen,with onlly battery f12 says entering boot. and dosent change screen, i tried proper reset but still nothing, recovery cds spin up but the screen dont change.

I had a similar problem with FCPX sticking at the splash screen, this procedure worked for me.
Go to ~/Library/Caches and delete the "com.apple.audiounits.cache" file.
Then launch Logic Pro/Audio Units Manager and rescan all the audio plug-ins.
FCPX should then startup normally.
If you don't have Logic Pro/Audio Units Manager try removing third-party audio plugins at ~/Library/Audio/Plug-ins/Components

Using Splash screen WPA2 network

I was using Document 100787 as a guide.
1. I have 1252 & 1142 AP's connected to the Wism (6.0.188.0 code)
2. FWSM I have a 4402 (6.0.188.0 ) appliance connected as my anchor.
3. ACS is ver 4.2
All of my wireless networks function as expected. I see the successful auth in ACS. I just built a new WPA2 network and set it up to use Splash screen redirect. It doesn't seem to matter what I do it just wont work. IE or Mozilla.
Test 1 was to drop the users at the wism. There was no splash screen.
There was no evidence of my url-redirect in the wireshark trace.
Test 2 used the 4402 as my anchor point with the same results.
In both cases the client was authenticated and was able to navigate the internet and other duties. The problem is apon opening the broswer there is no redirect.
Any thoughts ?

I am not sure I understand what you are trying to accomplish. Typically you do not configure L2 encryption such as WPA/2 on web authentication SSIDs. This is because it is difficult to manage L2 encryption on networks intended for guest use or non domain users. If this SSID is for guest/non domain users I would use a PSK and provide that to end users if you need to use L2 encryption. If this is for domain users I would normally use 802.1x for authentication via EAP-TLS or PEAP.

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