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Sheryl Grumney Posted on Jan 03, 2018
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Printer will not complete boot. It looks like it begins to boot, then power light goes out but comes on again

The bar on the bottom of the display screen indicates there is progress. There is no other sounds, cleaning heads or ink refilling. It's in this state for about 5-6 sec. The display freezes, goes dim, the power light goes off, the red exclamation button alights, then the whole thing begins again.

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Most probably caused by a power supply failure or main board short. Either way it is not a repairable fault.

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Anonymous

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SOURCE: Refilled ink cartridges: printer stopped working completely. Can't even install it!

may be your refilled ink cartridge fail so replace with new cartridge

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Anonymous

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SOURCE: HP 6310: memory card light flashing, printer will not turn on.

Need to reset Firmware

sagarjd

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  • Posted on Aug 01, 2008

SOURCE: Problem with HP PSC 1415 printer on inserting refilled ink cartridge

Hi,

Check this link:

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lc=en&cc=us&docname=c00005109&dlc=en&product=441115


Regards,


Sagarjd

Anonymous

  • 291 Answers
  • Posted on Nov 23, 2008

SOURCE: HP 1610, Remove Cartridge message

also replace the colour cartridge as it is not showing but the printer is not able to detect that cartridge also.many a times it solves the problem.

Renierf

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  • Posted on Aug 19, 2009

SOURCE: HP C6180 boot - init loop / power on-off loop

The Formatter board (main logic board) is faulty. You need to take the printer in for repairs to HP, in my experience though it usually works out better to replace the printer.

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