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From: BillW50 on 16 Dec 2009 12:01 In news:33fc36e5-0d6a-4810-b98e-8176a28ba705(a)33g2000vbe.googlegroups.com, Bob Villa typed on Wed, 16 Dec 2009 07:46:52 -0800 (PST): > On Dec 16, 9:32 am, Larz <wbsurf...(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> 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. Well I for one don't think it is a corrupt driver. But I admit that it can't be ruled out yet. And yes, a complete reinstall will address this issue and remove any viruses, malware, etc. that could be getting in the way. I would make backups if it were me before I would do such a thing. But if you have nothing worth saving on the laptop, it would be okay to try if you have the time. One thing that isn't mentioned a lot is that HDD don't take movements too well while they are spinning. I try to use all of my laptop hard drives on a solid surface before turning them on. Thus working from my lap I try to stay away from doing too much. Some have reported that doesn't operate their laptops in this matter that their hard drives often dies in abut a year. I am not sure, but that could be your problem. I have purchased notebooks with SSD (solid state drives). They take movements and shock very well. Thus I could carry and use them on my lap and all. They also use them on space launches as well. So they can handle a lot more than what most people would put them through. I like the ones that you can swap out the SSD very easy as well. As I do that too quite a bit. Same with my laptop hard drives. -- Bill Asus EEE PC 702G8 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC Windows XP SP2
From: BillW50 on 16 Dec 2009 12:30 In news:423076a6-c09e-4431-9f2b-7a4e3a8788b6(a)p23g2000vbl.googlegroups.com, Bob Villa typed on Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:43:30 -0800 (PST): > 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) I am with Bob, I don't think it is the CMOS battery either. And usually the CMOS battery is out of the loop if plugged in on AC anyway. -- Bill Asus EEE PC 702G8 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC Windows XP SP2
From: BillW50 on 16 Dec 2009 12:35 In news:55f0a6fa-3fff-4330-abaa-c3af5d04142b(a)z7g2000vbl.googlegroups.com, Larz typed on Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:29:26 -0800 (PST): > I often leave my laptop in sleep mode, would that have any effect ? No, standby mode won't harm the CMOS battery at all. Although if you do this a lot without AC power, it uses the main battery a lot and they only last about 300 to 500 recharges. So do you do this on AC or battery power? And how long do you leave it there on average? -- Bill Asus EEE PC 702G8 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC Windows XP SP2
From: BillW50 on 16 Dec 2009 14:01 In news:5f774231-a1d6-408b-8fca-ad0c4e51ab33(a)r1g2000vbp.googlegroups.com, Larz typed on Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:31:38 -0800 (PST): > 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 ? That doesn't sound good. Likely problems could be a bad hard drive, loose or bad RAM, etc. If you have changed RAM before, I would pop t out and then put it back in. If you have more than one RAM module, try with just one at a time. CMOS batteries are either easy or very hard to replace. My three Gateway MX6124 (06 era) are right under the keyboard. Three screws and one small panel and the keyboard pulls right out and there is the CMOS battery. Although I don't think you have a CMOS battery problem yet. Sounds more something is loose or failing. -- Bill Asus EEE PC 702G8 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC Windows XP SP2
From: the wharf rat on 16 Dec 2009 16:07
Ummm, has anyone checked to see if the USB ports are enabled in BIOS? |