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Sept 23, 2006 16:50:07 GMT
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OK then GEEKS! Can anyone help me?
My dog has eaten my computer mouse (RLY!).
Not a problem i thought, i'll send mrs p. weasel to the shops for a new one. 'Cept the one she brought back was a PS2 port jobbie, not a USB....
Now my computer won't turn on properly... i just get a blue error screen saying sommert about drivers. Is there owt I can do or do i need to get a like for like mouse for it to work again??
Please help as I'm having to use my shonkly old laptop which has really stickykeys, burns my legs and 99% of the time refuses to load interweb pages. It's doing my fruit and i needs me retro-rides fix!!!!!
Thanks, SadWeasel.
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Last Edit: Jan 7, 2007 19:54:27 GMT by Guest
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Sept 23, 2006 17:21:41 GMT
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plug it in first then turn pc on should recognise it
don't leave the other mouse connected confuses the pc
should be able to find a driver for it..........
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2001 HONDA CT110 (NOT RCV)
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bstardchild
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Sept 23, 2006 21:14:54 GMT
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OK then GEEKS! Can anyone help me? My dog has eaten my computer mouse (RLY!). Can you post a picture of it's face when it passes out please - I have a mental picture that need confirmation ;D
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Sept 24, 2006 11:32:27 GMT
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It didn't eat the mouse whole!!!! That would be krazy. No, he gnoshed through the cable then chewed the the mouse up. Anyway, that 'hairnet' option doesn't work..... nothing seems to! Guess I'll have to get some proper help. Oh, and my laptop has now terminally expired too. So I have to go to the outlaws to get my fix
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Sept 26, 2006 16:57:02 GMT
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Right. a PS2 mouse should work fine on any PC made after, ooooh, 1986 or so. Windows has drivers built-in for it however if you had some fancy-ass scrolly mouse before (like a Logitech) that has installed it's own drivers, this may be throwing a wobbly when it realises you've got a different mouse. So.... using only the keyboard, boot into safe mode by repeatedly hammering F8 when you turn the PC on (instead of the Windows flag, you'll get a text menu - top option is safe mode). This will throw up something about "special diagnostics yada yada", hit ok to continue and you'll get a rough low-res desktop. press Windows + Pause together to bring up system properties. Right arrow twice to get onto the 'hardware' section. press Tab until "device manager" is highlighted (one press on up-to-date systems with SP2), press enter. press tab once so the top item is highlighted, press down until you get to mice. press right arrow to expand it, and you should only have one mouse in there. press down again, then press delete to uninstall it. if you had more than one, repeat the last steps to uninstall them all. then reboot, and it might work now. EDIT - this might all be redundant, as booting into safe mode might make your PS2 mouse work in which case do the above, just twenty times faster using the mouse. if it works in safe mode it's definately just a driver problem. /EDIT failing that it might be a conflict in the bios - press F1, F2 or DEL on startup to get into your BIOS settings screen. look for "USB Legacy Mouse" and disable it if it's enabled. Two important points - remember what you changed, and don't change anything else Finally.... i work in laptop repair, need yours fixing? Can source parts for most models and my labour rates are favourable
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Last Edit: Sept 26, 2006 16:58:30 GMT by Pillock
Never trust a man Who names himself Trevor. Or one day you might find He's not a real drug dealer.
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Sept 28, 2006 22:23:19 GMT
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Poo. It would appear my hard drive has expired. Not a major thing you'd have thought... but (a) Dell in their wisdom decided to make it a 'sealed box' affair (b) I fear I have lost all my pictures Not only the thousands of car show & tat pics, but also all the lovely stuff of my little darlings
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Sept 29, 2006 9:00:42 GMT
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You should be able to take the hard drive out of that computer and put it into another computer set as slave and if its not too far gone you should be able to transfer everything over. I have done this with a few Dell computers in the past
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bstardchild
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Sept 29, 2006 9:43:58 GMT
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You should be able to take the hard drive out of that computer and put it into another computer set as slave and if its not too far gone you should be able to transfer everything over. I have done this with a few Dell computers in the past Or get a box/usb housing to stick it into and transfer to any PC - is what I had to do when my PC hard drive started making noises Clicky
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Sept 29, 2006 9:50:50 GMT
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I'm not good on computers....I decided to give mine a service today but I can't find the sump bung to drain the oil out. Can anyone help?
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Sept 29, 2006 10:01:08 GMT
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You should be able to take the hard drive out of that computer and put it into another computer set as slave and if its not too far gone you should be able to transfer everything over. I have done this with a few Dell computers in the past Or get a box/usb housing to stick it into and transfer to any PC - is what I had to do when my PC hard drive started making noises ClickyHandy things to have for extra storage but I did have one hard drive ended up corrupt after being switched off. Not sure if it was the hard drive faulty or the caddy faulty.
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bstardchild
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Sept 29, 2006 10:35:25 GMT
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Handy things to have for extra storage but I did have one hard drive ended up corrupt after being switched off. Not sure if it was the hard drive faulty or the caddy faulty. I've only used mine to access files after windows crashed or a hard drive started making "noises" I never trust them for long term storage (I don't know why but I don't) but for moving big files or lots of small files around from PC to PC they do exactly what I want them to do.
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Sept 29, 2006 16:03:09 GMT
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I've been looking for one of those USB Hard drive thingies! So, let me get this straight in my luddite-esque mind... You put any internal HDD into that little box, plug it into a USB port, and you can transfer files to and from hard disks? Does it need a power supply? Sorry to be both a thicky and a thread hijacker
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bstardchild
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Sept 29, 2006 22:54:20 GMT
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I've been looking for one of those USB Hard drive thingies! So, let me get this straight in my luddite-esque mind... You put any internal HDD into that little box, plug it into a USB port, and you can transfer files to and from hard disks? Does it need a power supply? Sorry to be both a thicky and a thread hijacker They come in two sizes 2.5 for laptop drives & 3.5 for conventional desktop drives And you've summed it up nicely - comes with own power supply "
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Sept 30, 2006 11:38:35 GMT
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If you want an external caddy for a laptop drive, i get them from ebay fairly regularly from this guy.... always quick postage and the one time i had one damaged in transit it was swapped by return mail. For desktop ones, PC World sell fairly decent ones - they're less portable as you can't run a desktop drive (5v/12v split) from a USB port (5v only) so you need a power supply with it. Pog - is it your laptop or desktop that has died? I've got some laptop drives here, and I'm fully trained with 5 years laptop repair experience
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Never trust a man Who names himself Trevor. Or one day you might find He's not a real drug dealer.
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Beware the cheaper drive caddies - IF you have them on all the time, or use them daily. Using one to back up now and then is fine The reason being is they don't have driver power control and will keep the platters spinning. This accellerates wear and tear on the bearings and motors as they aren't designed for that kind of running
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Aaaaah...... but modern drives are designed to run for long periods. Starting and stopping them puts more strain on the drive motor which can fail prematurely.
It's pretty much 50% of one and half of the other. Whichever way you look at it, the drive will work perfectly until it's the only copy you have of some important stuff, then *poof* - it'll die.
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Never trust a man Who names himself Trevor. Or one day you might find He's not a real drug dealer.
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Oct 15, 2006 15:40:06 GMT
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That's true to a degree - OK, maybe some brand name USB drive enclosures do spin down their drives - but those cost quite a bit and you can never get hold of one without a drive preinstalled. One thing's for sure though - a no-spin down controller is a slow and certain death blow for a consumer hard drive. Sure, they'll last ages if they spend their life in sleep mode, which in a standard install they do. However, if their controller doesn't let them spin down, they won't. You caaan just about keep a cheap drive spinning all day but all you're doing is adding more noise to your life and wasting a few watts - but you can most certainly expect the drive to fail within a couple of years, if not sooner. It may, just possibly, last for ages but that's no way to bet when you're storing data Just my 0.2c ;D
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Last Edit: Oct 15, 2006 15:41:05 GMT by Lewis
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Oct 15, 2006 17:13:58 GMT
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Right then.... my dad took my computer to bits.... he reckons that the HD isn't quite dead completely but needs to be hooked up as an external slave to retrieve the dataz. Anyone know how to do this??
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Oct 15, 2006 19:47:28 GMT
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Right then.... my dad took my computer to bits.... he reckons that the HD isn't quite dead completely but needs to be hooked up as an external slave to retrieve the dataz. Anyone know how to do this?? Set your knackered hard drive to slave setting. This normally means removing the jumpers off the back, it normally tells you on the top of the drive. I am presuming that you have another main hard drive installed with windows in your case. Put your old drive into your case and connect it to the second connection on your I'd lead (presuming its not a SATA drive). Then start your computer up and swap over any of the files/folders you want. Just had a similar experience myself but Ive lost both hard drives and there unrepairable. Main things I am bothered about are my photos, and my music. I last backed my photos up a year ago. So I have lost a lot of pics, including CARS, my monza rebuild and loads of holiday and family pics Have to get some pics back off photobucket (lower quality though) And I had 40GB of music all converted to 128kb/s WMA format, so thats alot of songs gone and some of them were pretty tricky to get hold off. Managed to get 8GB downloaded so far this weekend though (all uncompressed) and I can get a fair bit back of my Ipod and creative jukebox.
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Oct 15, 2006 20:19:51 GMT
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I couldn't give a rats about losing music... or even all my car pics.
It's the 'timeline' of the little people getting bigger that I am desperate to get back.....
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