Ginger, I have a couple of spare computers up in the attic, including the one we built in hardware class. Let me know if you want to borrow it to experiment with
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Subject: [kc-cfstudents] Re: Help!!
From: "Ginger Drummond" <im2froggy@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, October 05, 2008 5:08 pm
To: kc-cfstudents@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
I was thinking about trying to replace the power supply. Maybe it's just a power issue. But I really don't have the money to spend on experiments. If I knew for sure, I could scrounge the money. But I can take a chance that it won't work.
Arrrgggghhhh!!!!On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 5:05 PM, Ginger Drummond <im2froggy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:The only other USB device that I have tried is my external hard drive, which plugs into an outlet, so I don't know if it would be affected the same way. I will try something else and let you know how it works.
I went into device manager and tried to update drivers. I also removed all USB hubs entirely and reinstalled.
Something else I should mention. Before I reinstalled Windows, I was having another problem. I don't know if they are related. When I would press the button to open my DVD drive, the light would come on and I could hear it working for a second, but it wouldn't open. When I shoved a paperclip in the hole to open it manually, it pulled itself closed again. I could only get the Windows cd in by turning the power off and manually opening it. This problem has not reoccurred since I reinstalled Windows.
On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Ginger Drummond <im2froggy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:Yep. Tried them all on my computer and my son's. They work fine on his.On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Tyler Minnier <mouadeba@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
sounds like maybe a capacitor is going bad on your mobo maybe? You try the mouse on a diff PC?
--- On Sun, 10/5/08, Ginger Drummond <im2froggy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Ginger Drummond <im2froggy@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [kc-cfstudents] Help!!
To: kc-cfstudents@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sunday, October 5, 2008, 12:25 PMI have a problem that I can't seem to fix. My mouse loses power and stops working. Sometimes I turn on my computer and it doesn't work at all. Other times, it will work for a random amount of time. If I unplug it and plug it back in, it will begin to work again, but only for a short time. I have six USB ports, two in front and four in back, and I have tried it in all of them. No difference. I have tried 4 different mice, same thing, and they don't do it on my son's computer. I have gone into power management for USB and made sure that Windows does not have control of it. I even went as far as reformatting my hard drive and reinstalling Windows to be sure it was not a program that could be causing it. I've done Windows updates. I've opened it up and checked all connections. I have looked it up online, but the only suggestions I can find are things I've already done. I haven't tried a PS2 mouse, but if it's the same problem as I've seen online, it will not help. I still plan to try it. I can find all kinds of forums where people are complaining of the same problem, but none that have a solution. It has been slowly getting worse, and now it is rare that it actually works.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Ginger
