My PSC 6180 interrupts power up with a beep and restarts again. Rinse, wash, repeat

This is a cycle problem ONLY with the printer.  My Mac is not connected.  The PSC 6180 interrupts its power up with a beep and restarts again.  This repeats over and over.  When it starts, it flashes the HP screen, then the On button blinks.  Sometimes, it gets as far as a dialog box that 'not turned off properly" and whether or not I push OK, it restarts; sometimes it gets as far as blinking the ordinaly menu screen for a second or two and then goes off and restarts.  .  
One clue is that when I yank the power, wait 10 minutes and plug back in, it immediately starts the startup cycling - when normally it should wait for me to hit the On switch.
Is there any way to reset this printer other than the power off that I've already tried?

Searching elsewhere I found keyboard startup combination that resets the printer.  The one that seems to work for a while on my PSC 6180 is holding down "OK" and "Help" buttons when connecting the printer to power.  After humming awhile, the printer turns off, i.e. stops cycling, and when I power it on, it prints!  Unfort, this doesn't seem to last long - when I was first successful, to reconnect to wifi, I put in our wifi psk pw (not easy).  But soon after, it started cycling again.  I reset again, and for the moment it is working.

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