Db wrote:
> Firstly, apologies to Pork E...I should've qualified the request for BIOS#
> by stating something like "If you have an older board (ie; not a new
> fangled thing that won't let prying fingers into it's BIOS :)...',
> however, the revelation you're using a laptop, has thrown further
> disparity (in my mind) about finding a common thread here...I think the
> pain in my brain became much worse at reading this, but it is rather
> interesting nonetheless.....
No problem. But, that's what's pique's my curiosity since there doesn't
seem to be much similarity beyond the problem we share.
I noted the following situation last night as well.
I was browsing a newsgroup. Let's just call it:
alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.scientific.journals
I get one of these fantastic visual examples on the screen in netscape.
It's ~180k in size. I right-click, choose 'save image as' and go to save
it. At this point, it's copying itself from cache to the location I
specified. At a point (doesn't matter where but, for the sake of
argument let's say 120k) the system exhibits the previous inexplicable
behavior. i.e. everything stops until I move the mouse. It sits there
for several minutes doing nothing beyond causing untold fascination for
me (I get fascinated easily, I guess). This is reproducible but, totally
intermittent. It would happen during some that were larger and some that
were smaller but, not every time. Rest assured, I can go get several
more examples of this right this moment.
> Okay..seeing as I asked, here's my hardware specs at present...from BIOS
> up..;
I'll get as much as I can pull from dmesg later.
<SNIP>
> ..and my modem is an external dynalink 14218vqe, so the only way it has a
> jumper, is when I come into my room and toss my woollen vest on it (^8
>
> The only other polemical (here..I'm guessing ;), is the perhaps BIOS
> itself...although in 3 months, I figure I've covered just about all the
> permutations of settings possible (including the 1,427 combinations that
> will stop it booting at all ;)
</SNIP>
> I know...it might be un-nuttable, in which case I have two ideas;
>
> 1> get a new m'board, and stick this one in a trashy windoze box.
>
> or
>
> 2> build a little bit of logic (like a joystick autofire), stuff it in the
> mouse, put a little switch in it, and turn the switch on when I want to
> leave the machine, so the circuit can move the mouse a little left, then a
> little right at half minute intervals...(in hardware I can do this in a
> hour....I've been at the software for 3 MONTHS now will no result, I ask
> you..;)
>
> OH!!!..nearly forgot...my mouse itself? It's a fabulous thing bought from
> 'Boutique_de_Kmart' for less than a box of floppies..so it's nothing
> esoteric nor particularly good looking. I have, however, tried mice of all
> sorts borrowed from friends...$2.95 mouse or $79.95 mouse.
>
> The problem remains indescriminate of the quality of the vermin.
>
> I'm now going to do exploratory surgery on my own brain, to relieve the
> pain caused by trying to think of what a laptop has in common with this
> junk in front of me demonstrating the same fault (sigh)
I've used an Acer model, an M$ mouse, a couple of cheapies I have laying
around, the builtin trackball and a Cirque touchpad to achieve the
puzzling behavior. I've placed versions on the serial port and the PS/2
port. No change in activity.
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