Re: [H] Weird Mouse Problem

2006-09-26 Thread chuck
- Original Message - From: "Harvey Best" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Alt Cpu" Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 9:39 PM Subject: [H] Weird Mouse Problem On my home desktop. Windows Xp Pro everything updated just suddenly started acting asif the mouse had gone bad. When you open a window

[H] Weird Thumb Drive Problem

2006-09-26 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
OkayI plug in a thumb drive into a USB port. I hear the characteristic sound that lets you know the system recognizes it. Yet, if I open My Computer or Explorer I don't find the drive, hence I can't copy to it. If I open an app, and do a File | Save operation, I can usually find it. But th

Re: [H] Weird Thumb Drive Problem

2006-09-26 Thread Winterlight
Do you have any mapped drives? If you are using a mapped drive where your next local drive should be then the portable drive won't appear in explorer because the drive letter is being used. It's a bug they have never fixed in windows. At 12:55 PM 9/26/2006, you wrote: OkayI plug in a thum

Re: [H] Weird Thumb Drive Problem

2006-09-26 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 04:55 PM 26/09/2006, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: OkayI plug in a thumb drive into a USB port. I hear the characteristic sound that lets you know the system recognizes it. Yet, if I open My Computer or Explorer I don't find the drive, hence I can't copy to it. If I open an app, and do a Fi

RE: [SPAM SUSPECT] Re: [H] Weird Thumb Drive Problem

2006-09-26 Thread Bobby Heid
Also, you might be able to set a drive letter in the disk manager. Bobby -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thane Sherrington Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 4:11 PM To: The Hardware List Subject: [SPAM SUSPECT] Re: [H] Weird Thumb Drive Pr

Re: [H] Weird Thumb Drive Problem

2006-09-26 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
Thane Sherrington wrote: :: At 04:55 PM 26/09/2006, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: ::: OkayI plug in a thumb drive into a USB port. I hear the ::: characteristic sound that lets you know the system recognizes ::: it. Yet, if I open My Computer or Explorer I don't find the drive, ::: hence I can't

Re: [H] Weird Thumb Drive Problem

2006-09-26 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
HmmI have one mapped drive as z:and I have a 5-in-1 card reader which takes up several drive letters. So the two opticals are D and E, then I have 4 removables (media card reader) which takes up F, G, H, and I. Then my back up firewire HD is K, so this guy should come in a L. The mappe

Re: [H] Weird Thumb Drive Problem

2006-09-26 Thread Winterlight
Could it be possible that I have something else mapped to L and it doesn't show up in explorer? I remember once trying to map a web drive or some crap that some student had me fooling with. It never worked. Typically what happens is you have local drives C D and E. You also have a mapped dri

[H] Far Cry major slowdown...

2006-09-26 Thread Veech
So I got bored and purchased a d/l version of Far Cry (v3.3) for $10 online. I have a P4 3.0, 2G RAM, nVidia 7800GS 256M video card, Dell 2005 FPW LCD, all in all should run this thing fine. So when I run auto-detect for settings, it selects "high" video card settings (third highest of four se