Reminds me of the old joke about inheriting great-grandfathers axe. The head has been replaced twice and the handle has been replaced several times, but it's been in the family for years and we just can't part with it.
gs George Sinos -------------------- gsi...@gmail.com www.georgesphotos.net plus.georgesinos.com On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 8:19 AM, John Sessoms <jsessoms...@nc.rr.com> wrote: >> 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. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
