Lost Mouse and Keyboard
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Name: Langener
Date: February 15, 2006 at 12:19:53 Pacific
Subject: Lost Mouse and KeyboardOS: XPCPU/Ram: P4/256 |
Comment: From time to time I don't have a Mouse Curser or Keyboard after Boot. Someone told me to set the Jumber from Master to Cable Select, which I did and I got both Functions back. Is this a Sign of a faulty HDD? It is 4 Years old and in the Power Options it was set to shut down after 15 Minutes. Should I set it to "Never"?
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Response Number 2
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Name: ...
Date: February 17, 2006 at 05:38:57 Pacific
Subject: Lost Mouse and Keyboard |
Reply: (edit)Cable select is for hard drives, not mouse/keyboard. Even if you wanted to use cable select, you need a special cable for that (it doesn't come standard). Perhaps when you dug into your computer, you "disturbed" something causing your mouse/keyboard to work? A faulty hard drive will have a growing number of bad sectors (found in CHKDSK), or it will start making a clicking sound. It doesn't take control of your mouse and keyboard to let you know something is wrong ;-P The power options in bios usually specify inactivity time, so that it turns it off when it's not being used (to save power). It's not a timer that specifies how long the hard drive can run (otherwise your computer could only be used for 15 minutes before a reboot). If you leave your computer on for long extended periods of time doing nothing, then you can save some power and extend the life of your hard drive by setting a reasonable inactivity time. I've heard of PS/2 ports dying before. Try a USB mouse and keyboard and see if that is better for you.
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