MadMonkey: Have you changed the IDE cable since you took the 20GB hard drive out?

And todays problem is....
I have have a semi-new 20GB hard drive that used to be in my PC, but i took it out ages ago. It was only used for storage. Several times this week i have tried to put it back in, but if i do when i boot up and the system re-configures all the drives to except it, it does the opposite. It not only ignores it but also ignores my Main C drive and tells me i only have 2 drive a CD and a DVD, so no hard drives at all & no operating system lol.
If i unplug it and reboot, there is my old C drive and all is ok. So what is the matter with this drive ? Why is it doing this ? The Jumpers are set Master(C) and Slave(new disk) as they were when it used to be in my system.
Its a puzzle....

Luke Skywalker: slightly ..lol

imsoaddicted: No wonder, given how you torture your mouse:
http://brainking.com/en/TopMovers

BIG BAD WOLF: nothing added and yes its windows xp

imsoaddicted: Strange.

Has anything else changed on the computer since the problem started? That is did you add anything else to it - either hardware or software?

Is the computer Windows XP?

BIG BAD WOLF: keyboard is fine no probs there
the mice with the balls in just stopped and havnt worked since and the ball less one stopped the third day i got it even thou its says its working when i look at there status

imsoaddicted: Does the keyboard still respond? That is if you press the "num lock" button, the num lock light on the keyboard lights up?

I don't know.... just seems very strange - I rarely see a mouse that breaks, let alone 3 of them.... the only thing I can think of is a PC problem, but I'm not sure what it would be.

When it freezes up, after you reboot your computer do they work again for awhile or broke right away?

BIG BAD WOLF: they just freeze cant move them at all

imsoaddicted: I rarely hear of a mouse that breaks - let alone 3 of them.

So hearing that you went through 3 of them, my guess there is something wrong with the PC side of it and not the mouse side of it. I'm not sure what the problem would be....

So when you say "just stop" - does that mean it does not move the pointer anymore on the screen? Or is it just very "buggy" when it moves?

imsoaddicted:Actually I used to have one that had 5 buttons and 2 scrolls!

MadMonkey: its got 3 if you count the scroll down thingy..lol

imsoaddicted: Trust you, how difficult can it be working a mouse LOL. Its only got 2 buttons !!

King Reza: i tryed it with the one that uses ports and nothing happened so i think a trip back to PC world is in order

imsoaddicted:And none of them works?  Then the only thing that comes to my mind is that the port they get into to get attached to the back of your case has some problem with it.  Are they using USB ports?  If yes, try changing the port and see what happens.

i have 2 new ones with the ball and 1 with the red light system

imsoaddicted:Are your mice of the type that have small ball-like plastc things under them or do they work by "red light" system?

in the last six weeks ive purchased 3 new ones they work fine for a few days then just stop any ideas at what could be causing this problem or is there something wrong with my computer itself

what has happened to this board?

20 september posts are coming after the 22nd posts???

BIG BAD WOLF:I have a 13328cyl.15 heads. 63. 6448.6MB,is that any good.

They say the best is spybot.info

yes I did..learn something new everyday...hope someone can help you with your administrator...

awesome: There is a Mozilla and a Mozilla Firefox, I have them both as well. I mostly use the Mozilla to play gamez as it's faster on my gamez, I use the Mozilla Firefox for surfing and other sites.

awesome: no ive got mozilla firefox and mozilla 1.7.13 which are different browsers and now ive just downloaded mozilla firefox 2beta2 so
ive got 3 mozilla browsers

Marfitalu:

Mozilla and Firefox are the same browsers..it is called Mozilla Firefox...Don't tell the administrator anything...it will not help the relationship...

Marfitalu: You must copy the XML file URL to the "Manage subscriptions / Add" form of your Thunderbird client.

Jason, BBW, Baked Alaskan: Thanks for the tips and help. I've fixed the registry problems (through Registry Doctor), and it was a mess.. but still the screen freezes so that was not the problem. I'm login to the internet through a putty-tunneling-connection, I am thinking that may be the case (but otherwise, my LAN seemed to be down ever so often and have been lazy to set it back - i guess I'll have to give that a try also!).

Registry Mechanic, small programm that fixes some problems and asks for registration to fix the remaining ones. Good thing is that it identifies the exact location, so that you can fix them manually later on. For anybody interested in such things! :-)

Happy 50th Birthday Hard Drives!

1956: IBM ships the first hard drive, the RAMAC 305, which holds 5MB of data at $10,000 a megabyte. It is as big as two refrigerators and uses 50 24-inch platters.

And today, I have over a terabyte of storage on my main computer (not counting other computers in the house) - and I could use more!

I have NO IDEA the number associated with the memory of my computer..I do know that when we bought it 1 year ago,November it was the biggest memory storage that gateway had to offer.My question is a silly one I know but I need to ask.I have the game Black and White 2 and want to load in my Civilization game as well...the problem is that when my husband sees I put a game into the puter,he throws a fit that we will run out of memory! OMG! Please someone tell me that I can put 3 or 4 games in and not cause the world to stop spinning because of taking all the internal memory,lol!!??!!

TeamBundy: I had the same problem with one of my pc's a few years ago , i tried everything to cure it , when we left dial up and joined broadband the freezing stopped and still has no problems to this day , if i went back to dial up im sure it would start playing up again . Not sure if you are on broadband or dial up though .

TeamBundy:
This here http://www.iolo.com/sm/ads/landing/index.cfm?pid=445F2C56-41B2-449B-8E15-F880DD92137D
will do lots for you.   I been using System mechanic for yrs and love it.   U can check your registry with this also.

BIG BAD WOLF: I haven't either and know nothing about it. Thanks for the suggestion, I will tell her to check that.

Dolittle: My first thought would be to have them check to make sure all the cables & connections are connected firmly (nothing loose). Other then that, not sure myself since I've never used WebTV.

I have a question that someone else asked me and I don't know the answer. I have a friend on here that uses WebTV and her screen has been jumping to the point that it's hard to type a message. What could cause this?

TeamBundy: Another thing which will make a PC "freeze" for short time is if your hard drive is fragmented a lot - so a good defrag always helps.

(For those that don't know - if a hard disk is not defraged, pices of data on the hard drive can be split up in many parts - which takes longer for the PC to read - which in turn, slows things down and can cause "freezes" when the PC can't get it's information fast enough)

BIG BAD WOLF: thank you very much for the link and information! I'll download it and check out what is going with the PC. I'll do it within tonight and tomorrow: there is another debugging to be done here at home that has at the moment higher priority (laundry )

Is there a way to say what programs still have left stuff in the registry that may be slowing the pc down (other than spyware)? The reason is that I feel that I haven't installed too many new things on my PC and it did run smoothly for most of the time before recently (maybe a month or two ago).

TeamBundy: I don't think it would be influenced by the Java updates.

TeamBundy: Sometimes you will be surprised on what is ran when a PC starts up (and continues to run in the background)

I use a program called StartupRun - http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/strun.html

It shows everything that starts at PC startup. (When I install a new PC for a user, I even run this). Things like Adobe has things running at startup to speed up their product (but if you rarely use their product, no point having it run in the background - just take the extra 2 seconds later when you do actually start the program).

Anyway, this program allows you to right click, and "disable" something from starting - Of course I guess I should also warn if you don't know what something is - it either means it might be very important where you don't want to touch it - or some kind of spyware messing things up. So be carefull when using it.

Oh, and more memory will always help. 512MB is not much anymore - if you can upgrade it at all - even to 1 GB, you will find it helping a lot.

Fencer: I just found that there were two "java updates" (J2SE Runtime environment 5.0 Update 6 and Update 8) installed on my PC (actually, also a notebook :) ), plus a third thing called "java 2 runtime environment SE v.1.4.2_03". I uninstalled the "Update 6" (maybe there was a conflict), but nothing happened (nothing good or bad... which appears to make the update 6 unnecessary!). Do you also have these freezes or do you just want to buy a 2GB RAM new one? Because if you don't have them, I'm sure you can give us some good advice (other than reinstalling everything ) on what we could do to have more memory or what we could check! :-)

Fencer:My PC has 2GB of RAM and runs on a 3200 Pentium 4 processor.  But I have these 'freezes' too.

TeamBundy: My notebook has 512 MB RAM too and it's hardly enough these times. With all patches from the Windows Update server I guess the RAM is more and more occupied by the system components and the freezes caused by the swapping process happen more often.
That's why I want to purchase a new notebook with 2 GB RAM as soon as possible.

Does anybody have experience on dealing with the PC freezing for a couple of seconds (everything freezes, music, mouse, etc) and then continuing at precisely where it got caught up before the freeze? I have both Spybot and Ad-Aware, use Mozilla, have enough space on my hard disk and also 512 MB RAM (which should be enough), but also a history in Spyware on my PC (maybe the registries are still affected?). I notice that it usually has some problems with Java-based applications. And hints/suggestions on what to do? (already defragmented, and cleared up space with the Win XP features).

Thanks!

gambler104: I tried everything that I could think of and nothing...then I googled it,lol....I don't run internet explorer as my primary,but I do have it so I took a chance and brought up the internet explorer and looked at the history through that screen...yippee!! The website was there! I bookmarked it this time,and registared on the site!

anastasia: the history is the best bet. if not that, try typing the first letter in and see if it pops up. If you don't remember the first letter you could try every letter. This should work unless you've deleted your cookies and temporary files.

I know that all websites that you visit are put into a temp file.I should have bookmarked the site I went to and now I can't find it! Can someone tell me how to retreive the site form my computer.Thanks!!

gambler104: go to your network connections, right click on the connection you want to use, but which doesnt work, and click on 'reset' (i hope thats the english term they used :)) .. or turn it off in that screen, and when its off, turn it on again

if you want to use your wireless connection, be sure its turned on in network connections

maybe your router doesnt allow the mac addres of your laptop ?

are you trying to connect to another computer from your laptop ? or are you trying to use the internet connection of that other computer ? or are you trying to connect to the network via a router ?

it did work when you had the lan cable connected ? but it doesnt now that you are trying to do it wireless ?

gambler104:

that happened once to me and I right clicked the network connections icon and had to enable the LAN. if you don't have an icon you can get to it from programs and click the network conn. and try troubleshoot option if enable doesn't work..

BIG BAD WOLF: But the problem is I'm using a wireless network. And the computer that I'm taking the connection from is working fine so it doesn't make sense to me why my laptop shouldn't work fine as well.

gambler104: Plug it back in? I'm not sure what your question is.

I was working on my laptop earlier today and a LAN cable was unplugged which prevented me from accessing the internet. Is there a quick way to fix this?