New guy with "Sticky" Startup problem

[micski]

Hello, all I'm new to this site and was wondering if someone might be able to advise me. I have a HP NX9600 laptop that was working fine while online Saturday night. I was using a wireless connection. I noticed the cursor working rather slowly and decided to restart. Upon restart, it was beeping as if a key was stuck. After about 2 min. it got to the password screen where the password "dots" were filled in. The beeping had stopped but I could see the cursor blinking very faintly and quickly. I could not backspace or delete the password. If I click on the Log in button the field is blank momentarily and I can see the password field filled in quickly all by itself. Thinking it was a stuck key I took the keyboard apart and cleaned it well. No luck there. I then removed the keyboard @ the ribbon and restarted. Same thing! I have tried to press f8,f10, and f12 to no avail. I did try escape to change the boot order but again my keyboard will not let me "select" anything. The only thin I can do is.....Turn it on or off, select log in, and highlight the password field only to have it fill itself back in. Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated. Mike....Thanks.

[Overclocked Doc]

Any chance you something attached externally while booting? Perhaps a mouse, USB device etc.

[fritzi93]

Until you get more replys from some of the system experts here, you may find this to be of interest:

I've seen that behavior a few times, and it was the result of overheating. Which is NOT to say that there aren't other more likely causes, I dunno. But I do a lot of video encoding, which are processor and hard drive intensive. Therefore I need to remind myself to keep an eye on temperature. Overheating costs me a hard drive occasionally, despite the fact I have two extra fans in my case and never encode to the OS drive. And AFAIK, laptops are prone to overheating anyway, are they not?

You could see what HDTune tells you about the hard drive. That is, if you can somehow connect the hard drive as a slave in another computer, or manage to boot up your laptop. Free, here:

http://www.hdtune.com/download.html

Good luck.

[micski]

Thanks you 2. I had not added anything externally when I encountered the slowdown and the resulting "sticky" key behavior. One thing about this laptop that reviews talked about was the fact it had so many fans and the noise they made, they seem to be working well, and loud. but it is a possibility. I will try that recomendation as well. Also I am using Windows XP home. Thanks again for your help. Mike