Hi Jim the most common cause of intermittency I've found is a broken cable at the point where the cable goes into the mouse body; typically...
Hi is the slowdown perhaps caused by your antivirus running a scan when you start up the computer? when I'm running an AV scan, everything...
Hi again something's been niggling away at me from earlier in the thread, I've just sussed what it is: now, would that be fouling up at exactly...
beware trying FIXMBR though! ...it breaks the bespoke MBR for the hidden partition recovery thing Dan Goodell's stuff is well worth reading up,...
Hi PeteC I think Geno said the floppy light come on briefly many posts ago good to be sure because 1) there a save/fix MBR utility for Dells...
Hi Geno, PeteC (**edit PeteC posted as I was typing, so some of this will be redundant / irrelevant) yes, checking the cable by substitution...
aaaargh! (clonk) (noise of very large penny dropping) finally I think I've twigged what you're seeing. Please check / confirm / amend as...
Hi Geno :) thanks for the answers first up: as it's the "Single Page - Black BIOS ", I think you have a route to reloading your BIOS default...
Hi PeteC :) good point! I'd sort of assumed that because the machine wouldn't boot from CD, Geno must have started up XP and then put the CD...
additional info pls... Hi again ...now that might, just might be good news... ...when you updated the BIOS, was that done under Windows? ...or...
Hi Geno sorry to be pedantic, but two "flavours" of Dimension 4600, I get paranoid around Dells (and Compaqs!) because it's so easy to muck...
afterthought... ...better make sure exactly what machine we're dealing with here - in case it's more like the Compaq OEM thing, when the BIOS can...
Hi hawk22, jacrabbit: Dell's are "funny" OEM critters (funny as in peculiar* it can end up less than amusing when trying to fix them......
Hi again I discovered that the athough keyword.enabled makes a difference, what you actually get depends also (?more) upon the behaviour of the...
When I was 15 or 16 (~1970) at school there was an option for "computing" which sounded interesting so I signed up - an hour (maybe two?) once a...
Hi koolss very important question: can you still boot WindowsXP OK? if you can, then we should be concentrating on trying to mend the file...
Hi again sussed it at last (phew)... in about:config, set keyword.enabled to false has to be done for each profile, it seems doesn't...
Hi Westside :) thanks for the reply you mean as in Suggest History/Bookmarks/Both/Nothing, I take it? ...I tried that (i.e. Nothing), but it...
Hi koolss getting another HDD as you propose would be a very good way to go! Whichever way it turns out - whether your current HDD is...
Hi koolss sorry, we crossed in the post! thanks for the info "storage data on the drive" - useful; as is knowing that you run XP the...
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