JohnJSal
Active Member
Hey all. Got a small problem here. First, I'll say this also happened with my Dell Inspiron 8600, but it was worse then. Whenever I had my iPod plugged in and I turned on my PC, it would freeze at the BIOS screen and I would be forced to shut it down manually, unplug the iPod, and then turn it back on.
Now with my new PC, there's still some kind of strange effect. Fortunately, it gets past the BIOS and into Windows, but it halts at the desktop and doesn't show/load the Start bar, desktop icons, any programs, etc. When I unplugged my iPod, it then continued to load normally.
So the good news is that I no longer need to force a shut down to correct the problem. But the bad news is that it happens at all. My first thought, naturally, was the boot order, but for both computers the HDD (C: ) was set to boot first. I can only assume that the computer is thinking the iPod hard drive is the C: drive. But why, then, would it go all the way into Windows on my new computer, and not freeze earlier, like on the old one?
Thanks!
Now with my new PC, there's still some kind of strange effect. Fortunately, it gets past the BIOS and into Windows, but it halts at the desktop and doesn't show/load the Start bar, desktop icons, any programs, etc. When I unplugged my iPod, it then continued to load normally.
So the good news is that I no longer need to force a shut down to correct the problem. But the bad news is that it happens at all. My first thought, naturally, was the boot order, but for both computers the HDD (C: ) was set to boot first. I can only assume that the computer is thinking the iPod hard drive is the C: drive. But why, then, would it go all the way into Windows on my new computer, and not freeze earlier, like on the old one?
Thanks!