Margaret, In my opinion, these possible reasons you cite may have been at play. Has it done this before? sometimes computers do strange things and unless you can consistently replicate the problem it if often difficult to pinpoint an exact reason for a particular behavior.
Al -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]on Behalf Of Margaret Thomas Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 10:20 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Blind-Computing] No Speech on Boot up Hi All, I seem to be back to normal now, but I had a problem with JAWS not speaking when I booted up this morning and I'm wondering if any of the possibilities I'm thinking of could have been the cause or if I'm totally wrong. I turned off the computer last night, but didn't baby-sit it to see if it went through the whole routine without problems. The case wasn't vibrating and there were no fan noises etc., so I figure it had totally shut down. I booted up and did not sit there while it booted and when I came back probably half an hour or longer, JAWS wouldn't speak at all and my efforts to shut down properly failed. I unplugged the machine and got speech back when it booted up. Critical updates are supposed to be installed automatically and I remembered that MS was supposed to issue a slew, but there was nothing in the sys tray about updates being ready to install and the whole bunch was listed on the MS update page when I checked. I took care of that little chore. My first possibility for the loss of speech was that the 'puter started the download and installation process before JAWS loaded, but when I sat through the boot up, JAWS loaded before Windows. The second possibility is that I have a paid Carbonite subscription and I thought maybe the Carbonite backup process was conflicting with the Microsoft one. Does anyone know if either of these might have caused the problem? I'm running XP Home with SP3 and JAWS 10.0.1178. Thank you, Margaret For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
