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PC tries to boot from printer! Posted: 23 Jun 2010 11:31 PM PDT I fixed an unusual printing problems with a Brother MFC-665CW multi-function… while diagnosing the fault, I power cycled the printer (probably the first time the printer had been off for many months). Two days later, the customer calls in a panic: My computer won’t start! Since the PC was running slow a few days earlier, I suspected a motherboard issue. Once there, I could see the bios screen, and then a blank screen with a blinking cursor in top left of the screen. I go into the bios, and I notice that the boot options show an unusual order: USB printer first, then the hard drive, then the DVD drive. It looks like the PC assumed the printer was a hard drive, tried to boot from it, and just sat there, waiting for a response from the printer. The fix was easy: just change the boot sequence to be: DVD, then HDD, and remove the printer option. Related posts: Toshiba laptop won’t boot Window 7 and a HP PSC1410 printer straightforward installation… (boot order and corrupt bios settings)

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