HP Mini 311-1037NR Verizon netbook not getting past splash screen?
Okay so let me prefix this article by saying that this netbook rocks. Nvidia Ion for the win. As well as 3G connection. I also have a rocksolid eee-pc, but this is my new baby and believe me it was hard to unseat my eee-pc from the throne..
So my second day with it i came into a weird situation. I booted and i was greeted by a happy HP sign and umm,... yeah it didnt move. No windows 7 logo no nothing. I tried checking memory making sure it was seated securely as requested at the HP support site. Did the battery out, unplugged holding the power for 10 seconds thing. No go. So i packed it up ,(dissapointed i spent a whole day installing all my dev stuff and getting it all perfect for me.) Took it back to the verizon store and the nice sales lady took it out the box and hit power and guess what it booted right into windows SOB, wth hell right.
So I began troubleshooting why it wasnt booting for me, I took it back to work, did a backup up of my data to my internal SD card and rebooted. Stuck at HP logo again. GRrrrr.
Well turns out the issue is that if u have a wireless mouse with the little nanoreciever plugged in it thwarts bootup. Try unplugging any usb devices before you actually get into windows and should fix this problem for you. I have no idea if this is the case for other usb devices but certainly is the case for logitech wireless mice.(so much for leave the usb nano reciever in #fail logitech marketing).
Anyways Rock on HP mini and for goodness sake update the bios HP!@!@!
Doc out~
