Are all your fans working, and nothing is overheating?
Oh, yeah.
I fixed all those the last time I replaced the power supply. They were
still working good when I had it apart a couple weeks ago to install new
memory. Made sure to vacuum all the dust out of the case then as well.
I think I built it in 2001, but it might be older than that. The 30GB
HDD I replaced last year has a label "Manuf:25APR2001". I don't remember
if that's actually the original HDD. I've got a stack of old drives
ranging in size from 850MB to 6GB, and one of those might have been the
original.
The only thing that hasn't been replaced is the case & the floppy drive.
The floppy drive is not connected any more. It stopped working & I
couldn't find a replacement. The only floppy drives available are
external USB, so I just took the cables out.
It's on at least its 3rd mother-board, 4th or 5th power supply, 2nd
video card, 2nd sound card ...
Thinking about it, it used to freeze up a couple of times every week,
and now it only seems to freeze about once or twice a month.
On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 7:50 PM, John Sessoms <jsessoms...@nc.rr.com> wrote:
From: Mark Roberts
John Coyle wrote:
-----Original Message-----
Can you remap the windows key operation to a function key? I don't even
know if that is possible
but it sounds reasonable, I think.
On 15 December 2012 13:30, John Sessoms <jsessoms...@nc.rr.com> wrote:
Drat.
IBM 101-key click keyboard - no windoze keys. I'll have to look around
and see if I can scrounge up a spare windows-keyboard. Hate to give up
my good keyboard. I just love the feel of typing on this thing.
FWIW, it's been doing this maybe once or twice a month for years &
doesn't seem to be getting any worse.
On keyboards lacking a Windows key, Ctrl+Esc can be used instead.
You know, a cheap thing to try would be just getting a new keyboard. I
wouldn't put the keyboard itself at the top of the list of potential
culprits but it's worth a shot.
Current "plan" is to see if a new video card might do the trick (as you
suggested) and download a new mouse driver (per P.J.'s rogue DLL
suggestion).
I may have a spare windoze keyboard around here somewhere, and if I run
across it I'll give it a try. I don't think that's the problem though
because John Coyle's Ctrl+Esc does work to toggle the start menu when
it's not frozen and doesn't do anything when it is. I'd already tried it.
Other than that, I guess it's just something I'll have to live with
until this computer gets so old & decrepit it's no longer suitable to be
used as my "goofing-off-on-the-internet" computer.
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