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From: Larz on 13 Dec 2009 10:57 On Dec 13, 9:05 am, BillW50 <Bill...(a)aol.kom> wrote: > On 12/12/2009 10:57 PM, Larz wrote: > > > > > The other thing that happens is when you plug the mouse into the usb, > > the red light on the bottom only comes on for a second and then shuts > > off, or sometimes it doesn't come on at all. There is no 'plunk' sound > > that you usually get when you connect. external usb drive seems to > > work fine though .. > > Oh that changes everything. Is that USB hard drive self powered? 3 1/2 > inch ones usually are and 2.5 inch usually isn't. If the former, the > hard drive should work fine without USB power. > > So it looks like one of two possibilities. The mouse itself is shot, or > the USB port drops power. Try plugging it into other USB ports if you > didn't already try. Even on another computer. > > Side note, static electricity has a nasty habit of knocking out mice > from time to time. So that is one possibility. > > -- > Bill > Gateway MX6124 ('06 era) - Windows XP SP2 It's western digital WD1600XMS, so I think it may be 2.5 inch, but it does not plug into the wall or have batteries, so I am not sure how it could be self powered ? I'll try the mouse on another machine when I get a chance. The thing is though I have two mice, each the exact same kind and neither will work. That tends to make me thing it's the laptop. I've tried all the ports. There are 3 ports. The thing had a hard time booting as wll this morning. I had to hard reset it and then hit F2, finally it seemed to get up and running. http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Passport-Essential-WDME5000TN/dp/B001F9LY14/ref=dp_cp_ob_e_title_1
From: Larz on 14 Dec 2009 22:31 I managed to get into bios setting with an F key on boot, but I saw nothing that looked related to the mouse being disabled du to power under any of the menus. I'm concerned that the boot process is taking longer than it used to and sometimes it appears to hang and I have to hard reset it in the middle of the boot. Once it's up it seems ok for the most part.
From: Sjouke Burry on 14 Dec 2009 23:27 Larz wrote: > > I managed to get into bios setting with an F key on boot, but I saw > nothing that looked related to the mouse being disabled du to power > under any of the menus. > > I'm concerned that the boot process is taking longer than it used to > and sometimes it appears to hang and I have to hard reset it in the > middle of the boot. Once it's up it seems ok for the most part. > > Your cmos battery is shot or your bios/settings damaged. Replace the battery,if you can find it(a thin diskshaped one). Also when in the bios,reset to factory default. And try to find the page with the usb settings. There look for something called bios support, and enable that. All the symptoms you mention, point to a dead cmos/bios battery, or damaged bios software, the last one would require a flash restore of the bios, or mainboard repair. That usually means the laptop is(almost) dead.
From: Larz on 16 Dec 2009 01:31 On Dec 14, 11:27 pm, Sjouke Burry <burrynulnulf...(a)ppllaanneett.nnll> wrote: > Larz wrote: > > > I managed to get into bios setting with an F key on boot, but I saw > > nothing that looked related to the mouse being disabled du to power > > under any of the menus. > > > I'm concerned that the boot process is taking longer than it used to > > and sometimes it appears to hang and I have to hard reset it in the > > middle of the boot. Once it's up it seems ok for the most part. > > Your cmos battery is shot or your bios/settings damaged. > Replace the battery,if you can find it(a thin diskshaped > one). > Also when in the bios,reset to factory default. > And try to find the page with the usb settings. > There look for something called bios support, and enable that. > All the symptoms you mention, point to a dead cmos/bios battery, > or damaged bios software, the last one would require a flash > restore of the bios, or mainboard repair. > That usually means the laptop is(almost) dead. I clicked 'load defaults' on bios settings and then 'apply', but after that it never made it to the boot and I had to hard reset. I tried going to diagnostics, but it was taking along time so I exited. After that it seemed to have a problem booting and often started making 3 or 4 beeps constantly. Finally I got it to boot. At one point I got it so a different mouse seemed to make the machine try to enable it, but I got a message 'device not recognized'. CMOS battery replacement is fairly trivial, safe to do and inexpensive ? Once it boots it seems ok, except of course I still have no mouse .. I bought the laptop last year brand new. Dell Inspiron. CMOS should not be dying on me ?
From: Sjouke Burry on 16 Dec 2009 01:38
Larz wrote: > On Dec 14, 11:27 pm, Sjouke Burry <burrynulnulf...(a)ppllaanneett.nnll> > wrote: >> Larz wrote: >> >>> I managed to get into bios setting with an F key on boot, but I saw >>> nothing that looked related to the mouse being disabled du to power >>> under any of the menus. >>> I'm concerned that the boot process is taking longer than it used to >>> and sometimes it appears to hang and I have to hard reset it in the >>> middle of the boot. Once it's up it seems ok for the most part. >> Your cmos battery is shot or your bios/settings damaged. >> Replace the battery,if you can find it(a thin diskshaped >> one). >> Also when in the bios,reset to factory default. >> And try to find the page with the usb settings. >> There look for something called bios support, and enable that. >> All the symptoms you mention, point to a dead cmos/bios battery, >> or damaged bios software, the last one would require a flash >> restore of the bios, or mainboard repair. >> That usually means the laptop is(almost) dead. > > I clicked 'load defaults' on bios settings and then 'apply', but after > that it never made it to the boot and I had to hard reset. I tried > going to diagnostics, but it was taking along time so I exited. After > that it seemed to have a problem booting and often started making 3 or > 4 beeps constantly. Finally I got it to boot. At one point I got it > so a different mouse seemed to make the machine try to enable it, but > I got a message 'device not recognized'. > > CMOS battery replacement is fairly trivial, safe to do and > inexpensive ? Once it boots it seems ok, except of course I still have > no mouse .. I bought the laptop last year brand new. Dell Inspiron. > CMOS should not be dying on me ? > Normally the cmos battery lives 3-6 years. You better try for extended warranty. |