My Philips VOIP841 has been working great until a short while ago. It is displaying a message "System is starting up" and is unusable for skype. I've tried resetting the device and the base.

Any thoughts?

Added later -----------

Nevermind. Looks like the base reset fixed it after all.

I am having exactly the same problem. What did you do?

Same problem with me. I have reset the base set but still all I get is "System is sarting up". Help please!!!

User manual:
http://www.p4c.philips.com/cgi-bin/dcbint/...ink_UserManuals

Look in to network settings, e.g. router, firewall.
Make sure phone is connected to base station, section 3.6; there is a good signal, section 3.6.1.


Edit: direct link to English language manual:
http://www.p4c.philips.com/cgi-bin/dcbint/...ink_UserManuals

Thanks but tried all these includung re-setting my D-Link modem/router. the strange thing is the phone was working fine but just defaulted to this "system starting up status"

Have you looked into firmware flash / upgrade? Some previous posts about this in the hardware subforum.

id say again you havent initiated all the settings on the phone itself

never had this problem with mine

and I guess ive used it everyday for 2-3 month

us-us calls us-aust and skype to skype

Someone told me in the same situation that the base station should be turned off for at least 30 seconds and then turned on again. I did that and it worked for me. Hope it will work for you. I remember how frustrating is was

Thanks so much for this information!
I was google-ing this very same problem, and your post helped a great deal.
It really works!

This worked for me. I unplugged the power to the base station for 30 seconds, plugged it back in. It looked like nothing had changed, but about 2 minutes later the phone was suddenly working again. yay! Hope it helps someone else here.