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[stinger608]

Lenne and stinger608

Why are you two angry at my post?

???? What makes you think I'm angry at your post?

 

[Greenslade]

???? What makes you think I'm angry at your post?

Because it said *angry*.But Lex explaind it was the sittuation i was i.in ,*not me personly. *Should I go for a PS2 Mouse this is the cheapest one i have seen.Genius NetScroll PS2 Scroll Mouse - Working - O4B1O491-2D £6 make an offer ,They all seem to be Genuine part working order.
*Genius *That must have been the make back in the say.
Or should i go for an PS2 Asapter £2?.I don,t know if you have been fowlowing all this mouse boes not work when it loads XP.But it works in the settings ,no problem with the wireless keyboard .Sometimes the mouse s light is on.Have you used one of theas
PS2 Adapters and are they reliable?.I must admit i am not keen on thouse ball Mice.
This is the cheapest one £1.90 shiped.from the UK not china

 

[68Olds]

If you can get the mouse for less than the adapter, then I'd get the mouse.

Can you get into Windows desktop without the mouse? If so, put your WinXP CD in the drive. Unplug the USB mouse, then plug it back in. Hopefully Windows will see new hardware & install a driver for it.

BTW, here's a link to the Buy/Sell/Trade/Giveaway section of the forum.

Buy/Sell/Trade/Giveaway Forum

Use this forum to buy/sell/trade items. No advertising of links. User to user only. No commercial posts.

www.techpowerup.com

 

[Greenslade]

If you can get the mouse for less than the adapter, then I'd get the mouse.

Can you get into Windows desktop without the mouse? If so, put your WinXP CD in the drive. Unplug the USB mouse, then plug it back in. Hopefully Windows will see new hardware & install a driver for it.

BTW, here's a link to the Buy/Sell/Trade/Giveaway section of the forum.

Buy/Sell/Trade/Giveaway Forum

Use this forum to buy/sell/trade items. No advertising of links. User to user only. No commercial posts.

www.techpowerup.com

Thanks for all that info I would be surprised f i could get it for the same price let alone cheaper.at £6 i would be lucky to get it fir £4.I will give that a try if that does not work i will have to get an adapter.

 

[onemanhitsquad]

Sorry...but I'm jumping on the "old" thing!

I'm 10 years older than my car !

 

[Audioave10]

Sorry...but I'm jumping on the "old" thing!

I'm 10 years older than my car !

68' or 69' - beautiful! I remember when the 67 was new & special.

 

[Greenslade]

If you can get the mouse for less than the adapter, then I'd get the mouse.

Can you get into Windows desktop without the mouse? If so, put your WinXP CD in the drive. Unplug the USB mouse, then plug it back in. Hopefully Windows will see new hardware & install a driver for it.

BTW, here's a link to the Buy/Sell/Trade/Giveaway section of the forum.

Buy/Sell/Trade/Giveaway Forum

Use this forum to buy/sell/trade items. No advertising of links. User to user only. No commercial posts.

www.techpowerup.com

I tried that it did not work. This is what the seller says
*The operating system has a totally clean driver list and works perfectly. *
Well it is not working perfectly now ,with the mouse not working?The light is on the mouse.I tried this

look ar pictures i am stuck here the keyboard want move down so i can enable the 2 unkown devices ,i did managr to do it earler and it said it still was not working. The i cant click down the keys are not working. I keep tryong to get into the settings but it just goes straight in to xp. The mouse is only showing in one port in the device device manager.All other USB devices show on all the ports?The port that the USB is showing is the only one where the light does not come on?*When i shut it down it comes back on why?

Sorry...but I'm jumping on the "old" thing!

I'm 10 years older than my car !

What year is the car?

Depends of the computer. Some older hardware doesn't work with USB at all in BIOS..

Well the keyboard is working ,no good with out the mouse though. 510

 

[Mr.Scott]

but we have always room for one grandpa here

There is more than one here.

 

[bobbybluz]

My fully functional "museum piece" rig that's been collecting dust down in my basement.

Asus A7N8X Rev 2.0
AMD XP 3200+ Barton 400 fsb
Antec TrueControl 550 watt PSU. There's a bay in the front of the PC for adjusting voltages complete with a little plastic screwdriver.
ATI Radeon X800 Pro 256. I also have a Radeon 9800 Pro 128 for it.
Plextor PX-708A DVD burner. I can't recall what the other one is but I also have a PX-716A for it.
Combined parts from Thermaltake Volcano 9 & 11 HSF. After some experimenting I got the lowest CPU temps with it. The AS5 thermal compound has been in there for at least 15 years. The adjustable speed control is on the back of the case.
Sound Blaster Audigy2 ZS Platinum Pro
Two WD Caviar 30GB IDE drives in RAID 0. I originally had two 36GB WD Raptors in it (this was Asus's first AMD SATA board as far as I know) but they died long ago. I may eventually put a Corsair Performance 3 P3-128 SSD in it when I feel like playing with it again.
I originally had Windows 2000 on it, did a short stint with ME, went back to 2000 then put XP on it the last time I fired it up a few years ago.
I'd gotten very good at cutting perfectly round fan holes in cases with a Dremel by the time I built this starting around 19 years ago. When I took these pictures this afternoon I discovered where the Scythe Ultra Kaze I've been looking for went.
I pulled the Corsair CMX1024-3500LL Pro 438Mhz RAM out of it a couple of years ago to test another mobo and never put it back in. It's still got a single stick of Corsair Platinum Series CMX512-3500C2PT 433Mhz in it though. The three RAM sticks worked well together.

Now part of my vintage RAM collection.
The other two sticks of the Corsair Platinum Series CMX512-3500C2PT 433Mhz.
Two 1024MB sticks of Corsair Dominator DDR2 CM2X1024-6400C4D 800MHz.
Four sticks of Corsair Dominator DDR2 CM2X2048 8500C8D 1066MHz. I also have another four in a functional Asus M4A79 Deluxe with a Thuban 1090T in it. These were the very last sticks of this RAM Corsair had. They had a few bad batches and after my last RMA was told they couldn't get anymore. I switched to G.Skill then have have never had to RMA any G.Skill RAM.
Finally the Corsair CMX1024-3500LLPro 438MHz DDR with the LED's on top. I loved that RAM for troubleshooting back in the DDR days. If I saw the LED's light up I knew the mobo was likely good.

 

[Greenslade]

Mouse This device is not configured correctly (Code 1)
If i get one of the USB TO PS2 will that sort the problem out?
It comes to this i can only click reinstall it comes to hardware update of as the mouse is not working it just goes away.
up date driver i can,t it comes to the screen in the photo.
How can i get to *UPDATE THE DRIVER SOFTWARE?*it says search for the driver how can i without a mouse?

 

[68Olds]

68' or 69' - beautiful! I remember when the 67 was new & special.

I'm gonna guess it's a 1969. No head rests on seat backs in 1968.

What is the make and model number of your mouse @Greenslade ?

 

[Greenslade]

I'm gonna guess it's a 1969. No head rests on seat backs in 1968.

What is the make and model number of your mouse @Greenslade ?

It is a LOGITECH B100 i got it early this year it works fine on my Dell.
I don,t have another mouse to try..The mouse is a wired one ,the keyboard is wireless.
Sometimes the mouse s light is in and other times it is off.I can,t get to the settings i don,t know what they are on ASUS.I have had enough of this for today ,its driving me nuts. i just saw this in a forum in answer to the same question as me
it seems a common problem
*Have you tried plugging in a ps/2 mouse, then starting the machine. Once booted plugging in the usb mouse?
Should get a new hardware found message and the drivers for the usb mouse will be loaded.* If so (usb mouse is working) do not unplug the ps/2 mouse until the machine has been shut down.I will have to get one of those adapters and keep my fingers crossed.Or i could try taking a windows install from my other PC ,and confecting it to a usb port and deleting the internal drive then instaling a new copy of XP from the dvd drive.I am not sure that will work as it is ide pc.

 

[AlwaysHope]

Anyone remember DVD Ram tech? scored a couple of these yesterday before being trashed!

 

[bobbybluz]

I'm gonna guess it's a 1969. No head rests on seat backs in 1968.

What is the make and model number of your mouse @Greenslade ?

1969 is correct, the 68 had a small light/reflector on the lower front fender underneath the engine emblem. On the 69 it's smaller, more rectangular and directly behind the emblem.

Anyone remember DVD Ram tech? scored a couple of these yesterday before being trashed!
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I still have 5 of those. I used them in a stand-alone DVD recorder circa 2006. They're re-writable but take forever to format.

There is more than one here.

Harry Truman was President when I was born.

 

[AlwaysHope]

....

I still have 5 of those. I used them in a stand-alone DVD recorder circa 2006. They're re-writable but take forever to format.

Well, like all tech, it had its negatives & positives... but the market had decided so they didn't take off like conventional DVDs had.

 

[Ruru]

Anyone remember DVD Ram tech? scored a couple of these yesterday before being trashed!
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I do though I never had any RAM discs.. almost every drive back then was capable of writing to those.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Sorry...but I'm jumping on the "old" thing!

I'm 10 years older than my car !

Wow! I suddenly feel young again! LOL!

I do though I never had any RAM discs.. almost every drive back then was capable of writing to those.

I had a few. They were slow, but solidly reliable.

 

[QuietBob]

My fully functional "museum piece" rig that's been collecting dust down in my basement.

Asus A7N8X Rev 2.0
AMD XP 3200+ Barton 400 fsb
Antec TrueControl 550 watt PSU. There's a bay in the front of the PC for adjusting voltages complete with a little plastic screwdriver.
ATI Radeon X800 Pro 256. I also have a Radeon 9800 Pro 128 for it.
Plextor PX-708A DVD burner. I can't recall what the other one is but I also have a PX-716A for it.
Combined parts from Thermaltake Volcano 9 & 11 HSF. After some experimenting I got the lowest CPU temps with it. The AS5 thermal compound has been in there for at least 15 years. The adjustable speed control is on the back of the case.
Sound Blaster Audigy2 ZS Platinum Pro
Two WD Caviar 30GB IDE drives in RAID 0. I originally had two 36GB WD Raptors in it (this was Asus's first AMD SATA board as far as I know) but they died long ago. I may eventually put a Corsair Performance 3 P3-128 SSD in it when I feel like playing with it again.
I originally had Windows 2000 on it, did a short stint with ME, went back to 2000 then put XP on it the last time I fired it up a few years ago.
I'd gotten very good at cutting perfectly round fan holes in cases with a Dremel by the time I built this starting around 19 years ago. When I took these pictures this afternoon I discovered where the Scythe Ultra Kaze I've been looking for went.
I pulled the Corsair CMX1024-3500LL Pro 438Mhz RAM out of it a couple of years ago to test another mobo and never put it back in. It's still got a single stick of Corsair Platinum Series CMX512-3500C2PT 433Mhz in it though. The three RAM sticks worked well together.

Now part of my vintage RAM collection.
The other two sticks of the Corsair Platinum Series CMX512-3500C2PT 433Mhz.
Two 1024MB sticks of Corsair Dominator DDR2 CM2X1024-6400C4D 800MHz.
Four sticks of Corsair Dominator DDR2 CM2X2048 8500C8D 1066MHz. I also have another four in a functional Asus M4A79 Deluxe with a Thuban 1090T in it. These were the very last sticks of this RAM Corsair had. They had a few bad batches and after my last RMA was told they couldn't get anymore. I switched to G.Skill then have have never had to RMA any G.Skill RAM.
Finally the Corsair CMX1024-3500LLPro 438MHz DDR with the LED's on top. I loved that RAM for troubleshooting back in the DDR days. If I saw the LED's light up I knew the mobo was likely good.

Nice config!
I had a very similar one, including a hole in the side panel fashioned with a jigsaw, and manually controlled exhaust fan
It was an A7N8X-E Deluxe with a Barton XP-M 3000+ that ran at 2.5 GHz with a Thermaltake Big Typhoon, plus 2 GB of HyperX memory and a 2nd gen 74 GB Raptor. It had a Gainward Golden Sample 7600GT and later an HD3850.

I haven't kept the original rig, but I still have the CPU, the cooler, the Raptor and the HD3850, all functional.

 

[68Olds]

It is a LOGITECH B100 i got it early this year it works fine on my Dell.
I don,t have another mouse to try..The mouse is a wired one ,the keyboard is wireless.
Sometimes the mouse s light is in and other times it is off.I can,t get to the settings i don,t know what they are on ASUS.I have had enough of this for today ,its driving me nuts. i just saw this in a forum in answer to the same question as me
it seems a common problem
*Have you tried plugging in a ps/2 mouse, then starting the machine. Once booted plugging in the usb mouse?
Should get a new hardware found message and the drivers for the usb mouse will be loaded.* If so (usb mouse is working) do not unplug the ps/2 mouse until the machine has been shut down.I will have to get one of those adapters and keep my fingers crossed.Or i could try taking a windows install from my other PC ,and confecting it to a usb port and deleting the internal drive then instaling a new copy of XP from the dvd drive.I am not sure that will work as it is ide pc.

I tried to find a driver from Logi & couldn't find anything for WinXP.

BTW, if you plan on running Win98 you will need PS2 mouse and keyboard. USB devices don't work by default on Windows 98 SE, each USB device has to have a driver (and those drivers can be really hard to find these days). I had a USB flash drive working on my AMD 1700+ rig & screwed something up. Now it blue screens when I plug the drive in.

 

[Ruru]

I tried to find a driver from Logi & couldn't find anything for WinXP.

BTW, if you plan on running Win98 you will need PS2 mouse and keyboard. USB devices don't work by default on Windows 98 SE, each USB device has to have a driver (and those drivers can be really hard to find these days). I had a USB flash drive working on my AMD 1700+ rig & screwed something up. Now it blue screens when I plug the drive in.

Agree. I remember that I had to install drivers to get the mouse working in USB at W98SE.

 

[Greenslade]

Agree. I remember that I had to install drivers to get the mouse working in USB at W98SE.

I can,t install anything without the mouse working.

 

[Ruru]

I can,t install anything without the mouse working.

I know I had a PS/2 keyboard back then though so it worked.

 

[Greenslade]

I tried to find a driver from Logi & couldn't find anything for WinXP.

BTW, if you plan on running Win98 you will need PS2 mouse and keyboard. USB devices don't work by default on Windows 98 SE, each USB device has to have a driver (and those drivers can be really hard to find these days). I had a USB flash drive working on my AMD 1700+ rig & screwed something up. Now it blue screens when I plug the drive in.

If i can,t get it working i will have to send it back.

 

[Ruru]

If i can,t get it working i will have to send it back.

It's not a hardware fault if they aren't working in 98. Driver issue mostly.

 

[Greenslade]

I know I had a PS/2 keyboard back then though so it worked.

Should i go for a PS2 mouse like Mr olds saud ,i will need a PS2 Mouse for 98 sde or ME. Why does the wireless keyboard wirk and not the USB Mouse?
I will get a PS2 mouse if i can,t get this USB Mouse working in here i will need it in the future ,and it would be better to go for a mouse rather than an adapter which might not work with this USB mouse.This message keeps on coming up and other stuff.
*Disk read error occurred*Ir is comong up with this now but i had snappy drivers in the PC .I wish i could open snappy drivers and get the driver installed.I don,t like this IDE stuff there so ugly the cabals and this master and slave stuff. On 521 the only thing that worked was esc?