No answers, but a suggestion...
Sunday, June 10, 2001 at 8:53 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Jim Swearingen
(215 messages posted)
I can't address your specific problems, but I can offer a suggestion.
It's obvious that you've spent a lot of money on your system, but its going
down with a power loss could have been avoided had you invested in the one thing
no system should be without...an uninterruptable power supply, or UPS, also
referred to as a "battery-backup".
The most popular (and available) are probably those made by APC and
Tripplite, and they're available for any system. The good ones act as surge
protectors and line conditioners, as well as providing emergency power, giving
you time to perform a normal shutdown in the event of an extended (more than a
couple of minutes) power loss.
One suitable for a home system should cost less than $200. That's not
inexpensive, but think of it as insurance...better to have it and not need it
than to need it and not have it.
Jim Swearingen
JSS3rd@earthlink.net
On Sat, 9 Jun, 2001 - 19:49, Cornchip wrote:
I have experienced a few problems with my computer not recognising my
Microsoft
Intellimouse Optical after a power cut.
I have been using Windows ME for the past 4 months. During this time there
have
been 3 power disruptions and when I booted up the computer when the power came
back
on, Windows started but the cursor was frozen on the screen and the mouse
wouldn't
respond. Using the 'Restore' utility didn't help either. Luckily I had backed
up
C drive using Norton Ghost and after restoring a previous image (on all 3
occasions,
the mouse worked fine. Have others experienced similar problems with WinME and
the
Intellimouse Optical and is there a fix/solution?
Also I have also have problems with my Soundblaster Live Value sound card. I
am
using the latest WinME drivers (version 2.1.5.0) which work OK but if I load the
Creative Liveware software, Windows will not shut down. If I remove Liveware, there
are no problems but I would like to have the extra features this software provides.
I have a Microsoft Sidewinder Steering Wheel and gamepad (the steering wheel
is
connected
via a USB port and I'm using controller software 4.0, and the gamepad plugs into
the soundcards gameport. The steering wheel works fine with a number of games including
Need For Speed 3 and F1 2000 etc but refuses to work with Microsoft Midtown Madness
2 (although the gamepad works). I also get terrible graphic anomalies when using
nVidia WHQL Detonator3 drivers ( I've tried all 7.XX versions and even version 12.41
but still have the problems, even when running the Direct3D tests under Direct X
8. I am currently using nVidia reference drivers version 6.31 and these are fine
(but I thought WHQL drivers would be compatible with Microsoft programs).
My system comprises of the following:
ASUS CUSL2 Motherboard with Intel 815e chipset - Bios version 1.06a
Intel Celeron 800 mhz CPU
256 meg PC100 SDRAM
Creative Labs Geforce 256 32 meg DDR AGP graphics card
Creative Soundblaster Live Value soundcard
MS Natural PS/2 Keyboard and MS Intellimouse Optical
Seagate 20 gig HD
48 X LG CD Rom
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