Gnome splash screen hangs

This is a minor irriation but I would like to resolve it. When I log into gnome, the splash screen just sits there, if I click on it, it will go away. It does this on four different boxes. I created a new user on one box and it goes away like it should. I tried removing .gconf and .gnome in an attempt to purge config files but it made no difference.
Has anyone seen this or have a fix for it?
I will keep looking in the meantime.

Do you have your "lo" device up with address 127.0.0.1? This happened to me when I forgot to put the network rc script in the DAEMONS array in /etc/rc.conf.
What happens is that gnome-settings-daemon starts looking for fam via portmap. Portmap should listen on 127.0.0.1, so it looks there. If the lo interface is down, this lookup takes forever.

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I got my computer back in 2011, since then I've had nothing but trouble with it. Constant issues after issues
This has got to the point where i need some help.
My computer:
HP Pavilion HPE h8-1070uk (look it up on google and you'll see my computer whole)
I7 2600K 3.4 GHz
16GB RAM (was upgraded from 8gb)
Graphics card (temporary for this to be posted) GT545 that came with the computer whole
I changed the ram to 16gb and the graphics card only, the rest is stock.
I put the new card in, christmas present for myself really. Needed an upgrade. When i install it i hear beeping from my motherboard, well more the power supply. I spoke to some people and they said it passed POST.
After it reboots my computer loads the typical HP blue splash screen where you can press ESC, F12 so on, It just hangs there indefinetely. If i can get past that screen by pressing ESC i get a black screen with some information about my computer,
Chipinfo,
Ram info
and down the bottom right there is and this changes depending on what button i pressed at the splash screen. If i chose Startup Settings it would say "Startup Settings" down the corner. Nothing else loads. After a while of trying different keyboard combinations my cpu makes clicking noises each time i press a key. Then i have to Ctrl, alt, del to reboot and try again.
I tried the same thing with my temporary card (gt545) and the same thing happens, but... when i get to the black screen the text is there and a command box pops up with the settings i want to change, so on. The card seemed to not allow the access to the bios and other commands.
Odd...
So, i used my old card to download drivers, because the cd drivers are always out of date. Nothing changed.
The card is firmly placed into the PCI slot, the 6 piece connector is plugged in, fans are running and the HDMI out to my monitor works fine. My vga doesnt work, but the hdmi does.
Still does the same thing.
Please help me.
Just got the card today.
Really would appreciate it.
Thanks

Hi,
The h8-1070uk has on board video support so remove the video card(s) and try booting up using the on board video support. Your monitor will need to have a DVI connector.
The video card may be DOA and/or the power supply may be faulty.
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Must Press Spacebar or HP Splash Screen Hangs There Indefinitely

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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!

Long Windows Splash screen hang. While XP/Splash screen is halfway loaded 5mins+

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Point taken Richard
Anyway, as promised...
I never had any doubt that the enermax power supply wasn't working absolutely 110% perfectly. Given the price of the thing new and the figures (in sig-hope I got it all ok, I followed instructions mostly!) it had to be alright right? Wrong.
I've just swapped out the PSU from my nix box. Its only a 400w one so again scaled down this system, damn, works a treat.
Hope that helps you too gameboi or whatever you're crying ass name is.
I must thank aicjofs though for his post. It gave a starting point to try and figure out what was happening and why.
With boot.ini edited to stop the windows splash screen showing I could see that a fraction of a second before XP starts to load the drivers, the last thing to be checked is nvram (as I understand it this could be both RAM and BIOS). I just reckon that spinning 5 hdd's and 3 burners, my very power hungry RAM, with the graphics card is just about to come online and obviously the boards normal operation that the power drain at this point is incredibly high. My PSU, unlike me, just hasn't improved with age! (This is all guessing though, but I really wanted to find some reasonable explaination as to why adding one hdd has slowed startup so much). The reason the comp works ok after this is that the initial checks couples with the high power drain are done and dusted. Again just guessing.
I would be genuinely interested on anyones views on that explaination-not here obviously otherwise they'll be handbags at dawn.
Laterz..I have a hot game of Spider Solitaire with my name on it.
Hope the above helps, sincerely. Not my explaination or guess work, but just the fact that is was the age old problem of power.
Balders
PS Where should I start a rant about the appalling layout of this board Disregarding the constant reboots (PSU I'm hoping) and BIOS crashes, the badly thought out heat pipe (that does a fantastic job of heating up the GFX card though), the complete lack of 'Other boot device' in BIOS - one ide slot which has to have hdds on otherwise I suffer the 'delayed write error' (nvidia drivers, bless) so I have to swap cables over to the dvd burners so I can install windows! Not forgetting the great positioning of PCI-e 1 x16 making the first PCI-e x1 slot unusable. Flag ship MSI board? I think not. Half arsed money making venture...works a treat. Oh, I already did it! Thanks, feel much better now!! I've used MSI boards exclusively in my own and the few other peoples builds I have done. I will really have to rethink that in 4 or 5 years when I can afford another one after this abortion.
Oh, and what about Dual Core Center? Again disregarding the spelling mistake on the GUI, a sure fire way to get my comp to lock up is to leave it set on 'Silent' (the only way I found to use cool 'n' quiet - yeah right) for a few hours.

System Boots but afer windows splash screen hangs.

OS: Windows Ultimate SP1
After rebooting my PC, when the windows startup splash screen disappears the screen stays black with just the cursor present. No other activity accurs. Waited 10 min and tried again.
The same results occur in booting in safe mode and commanf mode.
I ran the HP Basic System diagnostrics and received this error.
Smart Check : Passed
Long DST : Failed
FAILURE ID : RGBRB9-00076C-9XPK1G-61CU03
Product ID : H2M99AA#ABA
HARD DISK 1
I then ran a standalone chkdsk /r and a chkdsk /f
The chkdsk in both cases did not show that any errors were found except receive this message at the end of the chkdsk
Failed tp transfer logged messages to the event log which is status 50
Note - Using the windows Ultimate CD I loaded theSystem Recovery Options tool (Command Prompt).
I thought it odd that when I switched to C: then did a dir, there were no files present. I found files and a windows directory on D:
My first thought on this is to replace the hard drive but thought that maybe this type of error occured in the past and a resolution was acheived without hard drive replacement.
This question was solved.
View Solution.

Hi,
The 24 character error code for the Long ( comprehensive ) Disk Self Test would indicate that the Hard Drive is failing and needs to be replaced. This is also consistent with the start-up issue.
If your PC is still under warranty, contact HP and arrange to have the drive replaced - you can check your warranty status Here.
If you live in the US, contact HP Here.
If you are in another part of the world, start Here.
If you are out of warranty and would like a guide on replacing the Hard Drive yourself, please let me know.
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Desktop Manager Will not Load. Hangs on splash screen when loading, then crashes

My desktop manager is not loading, and hangs whenever it is attempted to load. I have done a clean uninstall, removed rim registry entries, and did a fresh download and install 3 times with full shut downs between each attempt. I am running Windows 7 service pack 1 with an HP Laptop. It is an HP Pavilion dv6 Notebook PC. Product Number LY080UA. I hope that is enough information, but I will give more if asked and informed how to gather such info.
When I right click on the Desktop Manager Icon, I choose to run as Admin. Once it loads the splash screen shows. After a little bit (4-6 seconds) a small Icon appears in my systems tab at the bottom right of my screen. This stays for a little while and then goes away. After this happens the Splash screen hangs, and get a black border around it. If I click on the Splash screen it grey out and says not responding, prompting windows to ask me if I want to wait for the program or close. If I choose to wait, it will sit there and do nothing. If I close it will prompt windows to "look for an error" but has not yet been able to return an answer.
When I log into safe mode, Desktop Manager loads, but does not work well as only a bare bones set of drivers are enabled. If I turn off all but the non-essential services off using services.msc it will load, but again the services needed for it to run and the services for windows to be fully functional are not on at all.
I have attempted to turn off all but the Desktop manager in the start up, using msconfig, but that does not help either.
I am at my wits end here, and would really like some help with this. It loads up (desktop manager) on my Desktop, but I am unable to log that mammoth box around with me while I travel.
Thank you for your time and efforts, I will be very grateful for any and all help.

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Z77A-GD65 Multiple BIOS Issues - B4 Hang, Splash Screen Blinking

Back in November 2012, I built a home server with a Z77A-GD65. Lately, I've noticed some strange things happening that I've been trying to research but to no avail.
First off, I get the B4 code hang-up whenever I'm booting. This doesn't matter if it's a cold boot or a reboot, it hangs on B4 for about 10-15 seconds, flashes 92 really quick, and then goes to A2 which it stays for another 5 or so seconds. After that I get the MSI splash screen for about 1 second, then it blinks 5 times. After that it goes into Windows just fine.
The blinking is a new issue, the B4 hang is not. I've read from multiple posts that this is a USB issue. When I disable USB legacy support, the issue goes away, but of course then I can't have legacy support. I have yet to figure out what exact device is causing it. In the process of trying to figure this out, I updated BIOS to A.A0. After updating to this version of BIOS the splash screen blinks 5 times before going to the "Starting Windows" splash screen. This is a more difficult issue to figure out why it's doing this because if you search for "BIOS" and "flash" or "flashes" or "flashing", you typically get results for flashing your BIOS. Hence, why I'm using the term "blinking". But even then I can't really find a solution out there.
I also happened to see that the website for the Z77A-GD65 is showing a newer BIOS version, but I'm unable to flash this (at least using M-Flash). I threw it on a USB, re-enabled USB legacy and whenever I click on it to install, the BIOS screen hard locks. The screen just freezes exactly where it's at in the BIOS and the mouse is dead. However, I can CTRL+ALT+DEL on the keyboard and it will reboot the system so I don't need to power cycle the computer. Not sure why this is happening either. Perhaps I need to flash this a different way? Maybe I don't need to flash this at all?
I could really use some input here on why this is happening.
As for the specs on my system, they're as follows:
i7-3770K overclocked to 4.2 Ghz by using the Turbo Mode in BIOS
32GB Komputerbay DDR3 PC3-12800 1600MHz DIMM with Low Profile Blue Heatspreaders Quad Channel RAM | 9-9-9-24 XMP ready
AMD PowerColor 7870 Myst Edition GPU - currently not overclocked although overclocking this doesn't seem to affect any issues
2 - 128 GB Corsair SATA III SSD - one runs the OS, the other I use to load games from
2 - 500 GB Seagate Barracuda 7200 RPM Sata II HDD's mirrored via Windows 7
1 - 750 GB Seagate Barracude 7200 RPM Sata II HDD
1 - 1 TB Western Digital MyBook USB 2.0 external
2 - 3 TB Seagate USB 3.0 external
ASUS DVD Burner - not sure which one, it's a cheapy $20 from Newegg
1 - PCI USB 3.0 expansion card
Antec TruePower New TP-550 Modular 550W Continuous Power ATX12V V2.3 / EPS12V V2.91 SLI Certified CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Active PFC "compatible with Core i7/Core i5" Power Supply
NZXT Switch 810 gunmetal - currently have 4 fans running but plan on more, also the Switch 810 has the multi-card reader in the front with 1x SD Card, 2x USB 2.0, 2x USB 3.0
for peripherals
1 - Microsoft 360 Wireless controller adapter (legit one, not the knockoff although I had a knockoff prior to getting the real deal)
1 - Logitech Wireless USB Keyboard with Touchpad
I tried to be thorough. Thanks in advance for any help!

Quote from: PirateDog on 26-August-13, 12:45:18
Probably a USB device problem.
This is a candidate, as well as mouse and keyboard. Disconnect USB devices one at a time to find the culprit.
A lot of devices running. PSU a +12V single rail or is it multi rail? A rail going to the graphics or components may not be enough amps. My best guess is the card reader.
For UEFI/BIOS flashing, select your mainboard here and use the forum flash method;
I'll definitely try unplugging some of these USB devices to see if that helps with the B4 hang issue.
As for the PSU, according to the description for it on Newegg: "Four industry-leading independent +12v rails are provided for more stable and safer power output." It has two rails going to the GPU. The GPU is a new addition to the system and so I wasn't running it until recently. The issues were occurring beforehand, but you're right that this PSU is underpowered for the rig considering PowerColor recommends a minimum of 500w. I'm going to be buying a larger capacity one sometime in the very near future. Any recommendations on good modular PSU's? What's a good way to tell what wattage to get?
Thanks for letting me know about the forum flash method. I'll be back later when I have some results.

Switched computer cases and now I hang at the MSI splash screen.

Hey guys. I've never had any problems with building my PC until yesterday on the simplest of tasks.
I decided to buy a new case and switch everything over but when I did it decided to hang on the MSI motherboard splash screen.
Specs:
* MEM 4Gx2|G.SKILL F3-12800CL9D-8GBXL + one more stick.
* Processor = AMD Phenom II X6 1055T Thuban 2.8GHz Socket AM3 125W Six-Core Desktop Processor HDT55TFBGRBOX
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* OS = Windows 7 64Bit
* No overclocking.
So far I've done the following.
* Removed battery/Jumped the bios.
* Checked and rechecked each RAM stick.
* Removed all connections.
* Removed graphics card etc.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, Christmas has kind of killed my budget for a new build.
Thanks!
These are as far as I can get before everything stops working.

Really strange.
Have you made sure that there was will be/was no contact between mobo and case (apart from spots where the contact should be made) ? This could've break the motherboard.
Check ALL of the power supply cable connections between it and mobo.
Now something weird which doesn't seen to make any sense... Try to put your motherboard back to the old case.
That's all my suggestions, apart from that, if you're still able, then get it on a warranty and RMA it.
Good luck.

Pavillion Elite e9120y Hangs at HP splash screen, I've tried it all...

About a month ago I came home to find my PC stuck on the HP splash screen. After hours of trial and error I managed to repair the boot sectors by manually inputing codes into a command prompt. Unfortunately, I had to go to work immediatly after. When i returned, the screen was stuck at the splash screen again, and I haven't seen windows yet..
This desktop is about 2 years old now (no longer under warantee), although its relatively lightly used. At the time of failure it was running Vista 64 Bit. None of the hardware has been ugraded/modified in any way.
Only sometimes can I reach any of the splash screen menus (BIOS, Diagnostics, etc). These actions, and reaching the post screen, can only be executed by unplugging the power cord from the PSU for X amount of time (usually 5-10 mins, which is annoying to do EVERY time..)
Things I've tried:
-Removing all plugged in components except the stock keyboard and monitor
-Re-seating all of the components/wires
-Tested Mobo (removed memory, it beeped and made me happy ha)
-Individually seated each RAM stick in each slot.
-Repairing boot sectors
-Removing CMOS battery to reset
-Removing biult in media card reader (rare, yet prospectable issue)
-Many of the things in the recovery disk
-Removing USB ports from Mobo incase of short circuit (I think I did that correctly..)
Notes:
-Ever since I was able to first repair the boot sectors, my PC will NOT make it to the Windows Recovery Environment (The disk reading progress will freeze at a random spot on the progress bar and will not complete)
-Diagnostics froze after the Memory test completed
-*cringes* I have not backed up ANYTHING due to lack of funds for an external HD (though I've purchased one now incase I make it to my OS), so reformatting is really not an option.. Too many important school documents
-I have close to 10 years of intermediate software/hardware building/troubleshooting experience, but there are still many things that I do not know or may have overlooked! Any help is appreciated!
-*Sometimes* the post screen/BIOS does not display my 2 optical drives and/or my 1 hard drive device
-It's new favorite thing to do is say "Reboot and select proper media device," even though my boot order is correctly set in BIOS
Quick recap:
-HP Elite 9120y Vista 64 bit
-Cannot boot to Windows (most commonly hangs at splash screen)
-I've tried as much as I can think of/find online, and I'm tearing my hair out. Any help would be amazing!
I'm sure I missed something, though I tried to cover it all for anyone willing to help. PLEASE!!!!
Thanks,
-Andrew

Well I knew that there were quite a few problems with mobos used by HP, but I was unaware of the lawsuit. Unfortunately, its far past its warrantee. It's just unfortunate because all of the components are in great shape and it was treated very well. And aside from Windows Vista, it performed great all along until the day it decided to do this. I have literally tried everything, the next step is diagnosis from my computer engineering friends hah. You'd think being a student at a tech school would aid my effort. So far, no help..
There appear to be as many solutions to this problem as people walking the planet.. and none of them work!
Anyone who has fixed this problem please leave any information. Even if I have already tried that and it didn't solve my problem, it's worth a second shot. This computer was not cheap!

10.6 -- All Office 2008 apps hang at splash screen. FontCache Tool runaway

Did an upgrade of 10.5 to 10.6. Nearly everything works fine. Can't launch Office 2008. All apps hang at their splash screen; usually at Optimizing Font Menu Performance.
Once an app is opened, in Activity viewer you'll find a process called FontCache Tool using >90% of the CPU (on my Core Duo MBP at least, YMMV). I suppose it's saying a lot about 10.6 that the computer is completely usable with that runaway process. Even after forcing the office app(s) to quit, Font Cache Tool stays running until it's killed manually.
I have yet to find out if FontCache Tool is an Apple or MS process. I think it's microsoft.
This happens under multiple users.
This happens after reinstalling Office.
This was an Office 2008 upgrade from Office 2004.
After reinstall, and installing Rosetta, office 2004 will run, but office 2008 will not.
Office 2008 is 12.2.1.
I am running FontAgent Pro for font management, and so font book sees certain activated fonts as duplicates. (Validate fonts shows duplicate warnings but no errors). FontAgent Pro 4.0.3 is listed as Snow Leopard compatible. So is Office 2008.
I have yet to do a clean SL install, which I'm guessing will fix it, but I'm curious if there is a sub-sledgehammer approach, or if I am the only person with this issue.
Other probably irrelevant facts include that the computer is bound to both Active Directory and OS X OpenDirectory servers. Open Directory is running on Leopard 10.5 Server. It does have some managed preferences, including those for Office (e.g. to set default to .doc rather than .docx) but the situation persists even after removing those managed preferences.
Normally really specific problems are easy to isolate and solve, but I'm at a loss.
Any help appreciated
keppie

Hey i think i figured it out.
Had the same prob. 10.6 12.2.1 entourage hanging.
Renamed FCT, instantly prompted that a font was corrupt. Removed the corrupt Font: KufiStandardGK.ttf << this just happened to be my one corrupt font.
A little troubleshooting i did leading up to this, I read your post and my situation was the same. I use Linotype X to manage fonts. I disabled all but the minimum fonts (i moved them into a folder font_trouble in the same folder)
I also deleted every office pref/plist setting i thought relevant to startup which triggered the microsoft setup assistant (watched via the console app) and it ran through its check and then immediately the fontcachetool started and went awol on cpu time. Once i killed it--during the starting up of word and entourage... timing may be unrelated but i did them at nearly the same time.
Ps. Your post was extremely well written and I apologize for my stream of consciousness, less than stelllar response... hope this helps if not feel free to ping me for more details on what I did...
Good Luck.. All my office apps are running normally now.

Splash-Screen of Fingerprint-Software is hanging after Windows Logon

I have Windows7 Ultimate (MSDN) installed on my W700 and installed the Thinkvantage Fingerprint Software from the Lenovo Windows 7 Beta Page.
Often i logon in Windows the Splash-Screen of the Fingerprint-Software is hanging. Is it possible to disable the Splash-Screen via start parameter like /NoSplash or a Regkey entry?
greetz
Coolskin
Solved!
Go to Solution.

hazart wrote:
coolskin wrote:
I have Windows7 Ultimate (MSDN) installed on my W700 and installed the Thinkvantage Fingerprint Software from the Lenovo Windows 7 Beta Page.
Often i logon in Windows the Splash-Screen of the Fingerprint-Software is hanging. Is it possible to disable the Splash-Screen via start parameter like /NoSplash or a Regkey entry?
greetz
Coolskin
It used to happen on my W700 with Win7 x64 too. What's worse, the FPR worked after the initial reboot after installation but failed to work after a further reboot: it would then hang on "please wait" and increase the password logon time. I uninstalled the FPR software and no longer use it...
The mentioned problem has been solved by installing the latest fingerprint software: http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid=WIN7-BETA#autc (7wf459ww.zip).

Dreamweaver4 Hangs at Splash Screen on First Use

I recently moved to a new computer with 10 terabytes of hard
drive space and 4 gigs of ram running winXP2 w/sp2.
The computer itself is a generic HP Workstation XW4200 with
an old ATI FireGL graphics card - fairly vanilla.
I installed Dreamweaver4 (yes, DW4 is old but I know it's
quirks and limitations well and
I got the "educational version" free at school so call me
cheap, but anyway..)
then tried to start it up for the first time.
Just past the registration screen it hung at the splash
screen for a loooooooooooooooonnng time (over 15 minutes) and I
figured it was permanently locked up so I shut it down, rebooted,
and tried again with the same result.
I uninstalled and re-installed the program, same result.
I figured maybe something in Windows was conflicting so I
took an hour to do a reinstall of a totally clean version of winxp
sp2 (with nothing else installed).
After installing Dreamweaver 4 for the third time it still
hung indefinitely.
Finally I started googling around and found an obscure
reference on a Linux forum about installing DW4 under wine and
having it hang on initial startup while scanning all drives and/or
looking for Internet Explorer.
So I booted up WinXP in Safe Mode, and set the compatibility
properties to run in Win98 compatibility mode, and tried starting
up dreamweaver.exe yet again.
The cursor goes into hourglass mode for 10 seconds as the
splash screen is displayed, then returns to a normal cursor except
when passing directly over the splashscreen.
Out of curiosity I started a small notepad window and dragged
it momentarily in front of the dreamweaver splash screen window and
when I moved it outside the splash screen window the image of the
notepad window remained --meaning the splash screen was too busy
doing something else to allow a window refresh.
This lead me to focus on a very busily flashing led light
signaling activity for my hard drive array.
It was very busy blinking away even though I shut down
notepad and nothing else was running except dreamweaver (I even
checked Task Manger to make sure no process/thread that involved
the hard drive...like a search indexing..was happening --but
dreamweaver was the only thing banging away at my RAID collection
of internal hard drives).
So I decided to let it run while I watched a TV show and 47
MINUTES later the rest of dreamweaver finally surfaced!!
Was it searching for Internet Explorer?
..or maybe indexing drives/directories for the Site
Manager..who knows?!
But after saving an initial default site and restarting,
dreamweaver took less than 15 seconds to load after that.
To all those running Dreamweaver 4 under WinXP with
multi-terabyte raid collections be warned!
I doubt Adobe will issue a patch around this issue at this
late date but I know I'm not the only one still running DW4 and
after searching for hours in Google I found little or no
documentation for this particular issue so let this thread be it .

Now then Joshua Weeman,
it appears you have fallen foul of one of the first rules: "Never buy top of the line hardware". Get the middle range and your'e in tried and tested territory. Same goes for software. FCP 2 is a beta to all intents and purposes, Color is a fresh port of Final Touch, and again, is a beta program. Spending loads of money on gear does not mean you will get flawless workflow, it just means you spent a huge wad. You can not, in all reasonableness, blindly believe the claims of vendors, even the fine folks at Cupertino ['send to' commands anyone?], they all tell fibs. All software has it's dark nasty little secrets, look up Captain Mench and his fine tutorials to find out more. With the system you have right now you are sorted for years of fun, time to start reading the manuals and the small print, All the information you need is within ten feet of where you are sitting and these fine forums contain anything that isn't.

Pavilion a6700f hangs on HP Splash Screen, but does boot up after 10 minutes

I've got a new (2 months old) Pavilion a6700f
Everything was working fine the first six weeks
Not sure what triggered this, but now, when I try to start / restart the computer
It gets to the HP splash screen and just hangs there for over 5 minutes (literally)
Then it goes to a black screen for another 3 minutes or so,
Till it finally says its loading Windows, where it boots into Vista 64 and all is working
I was thinking its something going on with the BIOS
So I downloaded one from HP, old bios was 5.28, "new" one is 5.17 (that is what it has now)
This had no impact on the 10 minute boot up
Anyone have any ideas?

When you don't have the BIOS update for download then it is not possible to get it from any where.
Although I am an HP employee, I am speaking for myself and not for HP.
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