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| Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: 2600 on May 07, 2005, 05:13:39 pm ---Testicle makes some good points. Your problems could just be for a variety of reasons. Off hand I want to say Power issues, but if I was debugging this this is what I would want to know Power Supply Ratings? --- End quote --- Power Supply is either a 300W or 350W Fortron/Sparkle Power unit. It's the same type in Desktop 2 which should be a more power hungy system, I would think. --- Quote ---More information on all the Hardware in the boxes --- End quote --- Desktop 3 has 128M PC2700 (?) DDR bought from a local shop (not name brand). 52X CD-ROM 48X16X48 CD-RW 20 Gb Western Digital HD (about 75% full) Ran Norton Windoctor and Speed Disk yesterday and still had problems. Albatron 128M FX5200 AGP video V92 PCI Winmodem (Best Data, I think). --- Quote ---Using a USB HUB? --- End quote --- Yes - non-powered - although the printer was turned off but connected. --- Quote ---USB1.1 or USB2 --- End quote --- 2.0 on board and on hub, not sure what thumb drive needs, or if it cares. --- Quote ---Tried a fresh install of the OS? --- End quote --- It's fairly recent, but not within the last month or so. --- Quote ---Delete the entire USB tree not just the HID. --- End quote --- Okay, I can try that - From device Manager? --- Quote ---If it was just USB it wouldn't be so bad, but the ps2 mouse thing is the wrench. --- End quote --- More below. . . |
| Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: testicle187 on May 07, 2005, 05:21:46 pm ---Yeah that PS/2 problem is really weird. I would almost try cleaning the ps2 port and ps2 mouse connector. --- End quote --- The PS/2 mouse thing is the only really consistent problem between the two boards. Happened on all the AK38 boards with a PS/2 wheel mouse. Two button mice are fine. USB wheel mice are fine in Desktop 2, but flakey in Desktop 3. But I like the scroll wheel. --- Quote ---One other thing actually, the ps2 mice you are using are they USB mice with an adaptor connected to them? --- End quote --- Not using PS/2 mice at the moment, and not worried about it if I can keep the USB mice from locking up. The previous ones were dedicated PS/2 mice and several different brands and had problems on both Desktop 2 and Desktop 3. And Desktop 1 and my work PC have been happy with them . . . --- Quote ---Also make sure you download the latest firmware and drivers for your motherboard, might help some problems. --- End quote --- Firmware and drivers I think are the latest, not sure about the 4-in-1's . . . |
| testicle187:
You should be able to buy one copy of Windows XP and use it on all your home computers with their license agreement (I think). It should run okay on The Duron 1.1 with 128 meg ram if you don't open hardly any programs or use up many resources, 256 would really help. Best Buy has 256 PC2700 PNY Technology brand for 19.99 right now too :) Another idea I had was that USB is basically sharing 1 or 2 IRQ Channels with multiple devices and maybe Windows isn't doing too good of a job at managing them. Try unplugging all USB connections but the thumb drive and see if there is any difference. (Well, I guess you need your mouse too.) On the video card you could try going into the bios settings when you boot your computer and making sure the Primary Display adaptor is AGP. |
| Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: testicle187 on May 07, 2005, 10:55:59 pm ---You should be able to buy one copy of Windows XP and use it on all your home computers with their license agreement (I think). --- End quote --- Not legally - I mean I think it will work as long as I don't try to call MicroSoft and get a new activation code for it too often, which XP sometimes requires. Here's what I see the options for using XP are - BTW, I have an HP laptop running XP Home that came with a full install disk with key, but I am using it on the laptop. I think I can install that version of XP on the desktop with the same key and get an activation code, but I am not sure what would happen if the computer were put on-line. A search on price-watch shows 9 Software selling an installation CD (basically a different key) for $10, which I think I could use with the HP CD, I already have. EDIT - Apparently this is not a software key. Microsoft apparently cracked down on vendors selling software keys without licenses. So this one isn't an option. Glob2000 is selling the same type of (HP-even) full version CD that I already have for $60, which would probably be legal. Upgrade versions (from 98) go for $70 to $80. Or NewEgg has a full retail OEM version (no tech support, no biggie) for $91. I am entitled to the upgrade version, but I'm using that with 98SE (98 and then the SE upgrade) and for $10, I would rather get a full install. (I don't want to have to load 98 on the machine and then XP if I wanted to start over). Also, I would prefer to stay with FAT32 rather than NTFS as this can be read by KNOPPIX and doesn't require a HD backup and reformat. Thoughts? --- Quote ---Best Buy has 256 PC2700 PNY Technology brand for 19.99 right now too :) --- End quote --- I didn't see that, but memory is cheap on pricewatch. . . --- Quote ---Another idea I had was that USB is basically sharing 1 or 2 IRQ Channels with multiple devices and maybe Windows isn't doing too good of a job at managing them. Try unplugging all USB connections but the thumb drive and see if there is any difference. (Well, I guess you need your mouse too.) --- End quote --- I disconnected the scanner - it was slightly more stable but still locked up. . . I also removed all the USB components in device manager and let Windows re-load them - no improvement. --- Quote ---On the video card you could try going into the bios settings when you boot your computer and making sure the Primary Display adaptor is AGP. --- End quote --- I'll check that . . . At this point, I can change the motherboard, but that's a hassle (free though) and may not fix the problem. Or I can look into putting XP on the machine, but that's somewhat expensive and might not help if it's a hardware problem. Thoughts? |
| daywane:
have you flashed your BIOS? can 98 se use usb2.0? not sure your disk from your laptop will work. mine would not. That type of PC only. |
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