It's a sad story of my last HP. Yes, my last HP was my last HP. Turns out that many HP's use a defective BIOS that HP can't correct. "We buy the BIOS." So there is no chance HP can ever correct the issue.
More at
http://www.cnet.com/forums/discussions/laptop-buying-advice/#post-da7ca992-025a-4773-9086-f1d443e405ef
It's the same symptom. Doesn't boot with some devices plugged in. So far it seems to always be the "Insyde" BIOS.
Hello. When my Razer Naga Epic is hooked up via usb to my computer.....the computer will stay at the HP load screen on startup. My Razer Anansi keyboard is also hooked up via usb and work fine with the computer. I have the keyboard hooked up in the back of the pc on the bottom 2 usb ports. I have the mouse on one of the top usbs in the back. I switched the slots and it still does it. I downloaded and updated Synapse and still nothing. I disconnect the mouse from the computer...and the pc loads windows and all is well. Once the pc is on and loaded I hook up the mouse and it works fine. ONce i restart it freezes again at the HP load screen. I even tried hooking up the mouse in the front usb ports but still not workig. The mouse works fine on my other HP computer. What could be the problem? thx.

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