OT: computer troubleshooting

Dean A. Stepper said:

My Home XP will not boot if I leave my USB card reader
plugged in. Works fine if I plug it in after boot. I do
not use the reader that often so I just leave it unplugged
until I need it. "Penny S" <[email hidden]>
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Good advise. I concur. Always do this (plus scanning for
adware with a freshly updated copy of Ad-Aware or the
like). Then if it comes out clean and the problem
persists take the hardware troubleshooting approach. Let
us know how it goes. Good luck!

Matt

hmm. I may pick up another card mouse and try this. I did
confirm with my 'puter guy that my we loaded XP as upgrade,
and not a clean load. Maybe it's time to pick up a new big
hard drive, and relaod it fresh... if I'm going to go to all
that trouble, I might as well go for more than 20 GB.

Penny

PS I scan with both spybot destroyer, and adawre every few
days.

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You might want to try posting that specific question to
24hoursupport.helpdesk news group. I have only posted
there a few times,like here. Every question I asked
recieved a reply that was dead on what I was looking for.

Fredzep

Thanks for the tip. That place looks great, and they even
have their own Net_Psycho_Mikey!

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Slacker

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Change the video driver to the windows standard driver
(the old 800x6000

16

Wow. How many acres does your screen cover?

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Phil, Squid-in-Training

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Dean A. Stepper said:

My Home XP will not boot if I leave my USB card reader
plugged in. Works fine if I plug it in after boot. I do
not use the reader that often so I just leave it
unplugged until I need it. "Penny S"
<[email hidden]> wrote in message
"]news:[email hidden]...

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MattB ran this through spell check:
>
> Good advise. I concur. Always do this (plus scanning
> for adware with a freshly updated copy of Ad-Aware or
> the like). Then if it comes out clean and the problem
> persists take the hardware troubleshooting approach.
> Let us know how it goes. Good luck!
>
> Matt

hmm. I may pick up another card mouse and try this. I did
confirm with my 'puter guy that my we loaded XP as
upgrade, and not a clean load. Maybe it's time to pick up
a new big hard drive, and relaod it fresh... if I'm going
to go to all that trouble, I might as well go for more
than 20 GB.

Penny

PS I scan with both spybot destroyer, and adawre every few
days.

interesting, I say basically the same thing, and it
gets ignored.

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Dean A. Stepper said:

My Home XP will not boot if I leave my USB card reader
plugged in. Works fine if I plug it in after boot. I do
not use the reader that often so I just leave it
unplugged until I need it. "Penny S"
<[email hidden]> wrote in message
"]news:[email hidden]...
> MattB ran this through spell check:
>>
>> Good advise. I concur. Always do this (plus scanning
>> for adware with a freshly updated copy of Ad-Aware or
>> the like). Then if it comes out clean and the problem
>> persists take the hardware troubleshooting approach.
>> Let us know how it goes. Good luck!
>>
>> Matt
>

hmm. I may pick up another card mouse and try this. I did
confirm with my 'puter guy that my we loaded XP as
upgrade, and not a clean load. Maybe it's time to pick up
a new big hard drive, and relaod it fresh... if I'm going
to go to all that trouble, I might as well go for more
than 20 GB.

Penny

PS I scan with both spybot destroyer, and adawre every
few days.

interesting, I say basically the same thing, and it gets
ignored.

it's not who ya' know....

Ahhh, much better now with the new graphics card. My USB
wireless mouse is back too.

XP is cool. It automatically remembered my setting, and
reset the refresh rate, color, resolution and filled
the screen.

I love Bill Gates!

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Slacker

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it's not who ya' know....

in this case, I think that indeed it is.