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From: Larz on 16 Dec 2009 06:29 On Dec 16, 1:38 am, Sjouke Burry <burrynulnulf...(a)ppllaanneett.nnll> wrote: > 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. I often leave my laptop in sleep mode, would that have any effect ? How much dos one of those cost ?
From: Larz on 16 Dec 2009 06:45 > > Normally the cmos battery lives 3-6 years. > You better try for extended warranty. I only paid $400 for this laptop. Around how much might someone charge me to put in a new cmos battery ? I looked here: http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/ins4150/en/sm_en/rsrvbatt.htm which seems to indicate some technical difficulty could be involved. Are we fairly certain that's the issue ? I don't see how I could get an extended warranty ? I think I bought the computer quite a while back. It may have been 6 months ago. I am trying to remember when it was. I had thought about getting a mac, but they where kind of expensive and I don't need to do contract programming work from home or I might need on of those.
From: Bob Villa on 16 Dec 2009 07:43 On Dec 16, 5:45 am, Larz <wbsurf...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Normally the cmos battery lives 3-6 years. > > You better try for extended warranty. > > I only paid $400 for this laptop. Around how much might someone > charge me to put in a new cmos battery ? I looked here:http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/ins4150/en/sm_en/rsrvba... > which seems to indicate some technical difficulty could be involved. > > Are we fairly certain that's the issue ? > > I don't see how I could get an extended warranty ? I think I bought > the computer quite a while back. It may have been 6 months ago. I am > trying to remember when it was. > > I had thought about getting a mac, but they where kind of expensive > and I don't need to do contract programming work from home or I might > need on of those. I would doubt it was the Cmos battery. Go to the "Control Panel" and click "Mouse" then "Hardware" tab, and see if it shows the mouse. Did the mouse come with a CD? (usually needed for pre-XP) bob_v
From: Larz on 16 Dec 2009 10:32 On Dec 16, 7:43 am, Bob Villa <pheeh.z...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Dec 16, 5:45 am, Larz <wbsurf...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > Normally the cmos battery lives 3-6 years. > > > You better try for extended warranty. > > > I only paid $400 for this laptop. Around how much might someone > > charge me to put in a new cmos battery ? I looked here:http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/ins4150/en/sm_en/rsrvba... > > which seems to indicate some technical difficulty could be involved. > > > Are we fairly certain that's the issue ? > > > I don't see how I could get an extended warranty ? I think I bought > > the computer quite a while back. It may have been 6 months ago. I am > > trying to remember when it was. > > > I had thought about getting a mac, but they where kind of expensive > > and I don't need to do contract programming work from home or I might > > need on of those. > > I would doubt it was the Cmos battery. Go to the "Control Panel" and > click "Mouse" then "Hardware" tab, and see if it shows the mouse. > Did the mouse come with a CD? (usually needed for pre-XP) > > bob_v I bought the laptop new within the last year for $400. I don't think I got a service plan, but I'll have to call best buy to see if they have me on file. It was a soon to be discontinued dell model. I've been using usb mice for a few years on this and my older laptop I had before, I don't think I ever installed a driver from a CD. It was plug and play. I'll check out that control panel setting when I get home where the laptop is. If that doesn't solve anything, should I reconsider re installing windows vista ? When I bought the laptop it came with a windows disk ..
From: Bob Villa on 16 Dec 2009 10:46
On Dec 16, 9:32 am, Larz <wbsurf...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Dec 16, 7:43 am, Bob Villa <pheeh.z...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > On Dec 16, 5:45 am, Larz <wbsurf...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Normally the cmos battery lives 3-6 years. > > > > You better try for extended warranty. > > > > I only paid $400 for this laptop. Around how much might someone > > > charge me to put in a new cmos battery ? I looked here:http://support..dell.com/support/edocs/systems/ins4150/en/sm_en/rsrvba... > > > which seems to indicate some technical difficulty could be involved. > > > > Are we fairly certain that's the issue ? > > > > I don't see how I could get an extended warranty ? I think I bought > > > the computer quite a while back. It may have been 6 months ago. I am > > > trying to remember when it was. > > > > I had thought about getting a mac, but they where kind of expensive > > > and I don't need to do contract programming work from home or I might > > > need on of those. > > > I would doubt it was the Cmos battery. Go to the "Control Panel" and > > click "Mouse" then "Hardware" tab, and see if it shows the mouse. > > Did the mouse come with a CD? (usually needed for pre-XP) > > > bob_v > > I bought the laptop new within the last year for $400. I don't think I > got a service plan, but I'll have to call best buy to see if they have > me on file. It was a soon to be discontinued dell model. I've been > using usb mice for a few years on this and my older laptop I had > before, I don't think I ever installed a driver from a CD. It was plug > and play. I'll check out that control panel setting when I get home > where the laptop is. If that doesn't solve anything, should I > reconsider re installing windows vista ? When I bought the laptop it > came with a windows disk .. The point being...the driver may be corrupted and a Win2K or XP USB driver may resurrect it. |