jaclaz

This thread is NOT about the LP model and NOT about ANY other problem but the two specific ones mentioned and it is related ONLY to the 7200.11 model. It makes NO sense WHATEVER: to post about your issue on this thread to even think that something that may work for ANOTHER issue on ANOTHER model may be of any use for your issue (which is NOT BTW the BSY/busy state)jaclaz

[1] In theory. In practice, with the notable exception of Clamwin (and possibly a few others) each and every AntiVirus will want to install and then attempt to take full control of your machine, installing to it any among a zillion services, most of which unneeded, not useful or related to Real Time scanning and/or botching any concurrent similar services and/or botching your OS install for good. So you actually need "portable" versions of these AV's that you are going to use on demand only. Good luck if you are going to attempt taming bloatmasters® like Panda or Norton (only to name a few, not that other brands are much better). jaclaz

Maybe, just maybe, you can try this approach here ("downgrading" the .inf): http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-hardware/intelr-management-enginge-interface/9273a27f-b8b9-4989-9dfc-1ed6cc2fea37 jaclaz

Hmmm, wouldn't this do? http://thatsportsgamer.com/tt-esports-meka-g-unit-keyboard-review/ jaclaz

For NO apparent reason, if not to post this info so I can find it again if needed. Is it a keyboard? Is it a mouse? Naah, it's a keyboard mouse : http://www.kemice.com/ and another one: http://www.combimouse.com/index.htm jaclaz

The "wick effect" is actually real, replicable and explicable. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wick_effect http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/158853.stm The "spontaneity" of human combustion much less so, IMHO (excluding pyrotrons, I mean ). jaclaz

Wait, are you telling me that you ever trusted anything on TV? But yes, the mermaids (and to a lesser extent the megalodon) stuff is a good example of BAD entertainment (only because it was misrepresented as being documentary, not by itself if seen - as it is - as science fiction). HECK! Gotta go, my phoenix just started spreading pyrotrons like mad: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_human_combustion#Unverified_natural_phenomena and they are d@mn dangerous particles to have around jaclaz

Just for the record (and FYI) on "particular" setups (like "Kiosk" or similar) a keyboard terminator has been widely (and traditionally) in use to avoid the "Missing Keyboard, press F1 to resume" error or some of the similar ones: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=22422 jaclaz :

Sure, no offence whatever intended to duffy98 , some serious offence intended for the group of demented people (that call themselves, respectively, journalists and editors) that do publish this kind of bull§hit on seemingly respectable sites. The actual scientists involved in the research/paper should be anyway crucified: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079470/quotes?item=qt0471984 for talking about the experiment without exactly clearing the limits and real nature of the experiment. In any case the paper in itself is mostly "fluff". jaclaz

Whatever it is,it is not "news". Here is the article, I believe: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186%2F1687-417X-2013-2 jaclaz

A cousin of mine has a USB hard disk that is roughly 1/3 NTFS, 1/3 FAT32 and 1/3 EXT4, even handier. jaclaz

We cannot? I thought that we do provide (on a voluntary basis) assistance for any number of projects that were not originated on MSFN (no matter whether discontinued or not). In any case it seems like people here: http://www.sevenforums.com/ are more familiar with it. jaclaz

... all of them invariably either wrong, or misleading or BOTH . At least that was my personal experience, before I gave up for good, several years ago, clicking on those links. jaclaz

Perfect. jaclaz

Ok, maybe we need a further step. The BIOS only recognizes a keyboard device and only if connected through the "old" DIN bus or more recently the PS/2 one, whilst most implementation (which as a matter of fact often fail/cause issues) on more recent BIOSes add an additional layer (which is sometimes referred in BIOS as "USB legacy support") that is more like a "converting the USB keyboard to a PS/2" than anything else. Each and every "wireless" (no matter if radio, infrared, bluetooth or whatever technology) keyboard is (or should be) for all the BIOS knows a "normal", wired keyboard. If you prefer, any device that is called keyboard presents itself to the BIOS as a keyboard, in the case of wireless keyboards such as the ones you posted a link to, it is the key that is inserted in the USB port that declares itself as "keyboard" (this is what the BIOS is looking for and the only thing that matters to it), and how exactly the USB key communicates (and couples, etc.) with the actual remote things with keys is essentially out of the interest of BIOS. To all effects for the BIOS those "internet remote/keyboards" are just like plain, conventional USB keyboards. jaclaz

salim, excuse me, but I would like to understand . I see on sediv.net a reference to Pakistan, whilst the known sediv program: http://sediv2008.narod.ru/ is seemingly from Russia, and both places are currently about the 1.014 Alpha version. jaclaz

If you had a parallel port you could use WWBMU: http://lab1.de/Central/Software/System-Tools/WWBMU/ Or basically since normally BIOS does not support any other device but a keyboard (and yes a numeric keypad is technically a small keyboard) you have to load *something* (a bootmanager, a BIOS extension, a small OS, etc.) capable of supporting *something else* (i.e. *any* non-keyboard) as user input method. XOSL is a "traditional" bootmanager that has mouse support, as an example: However, and just for the record, there is also the possibility of touchscreen : http://www.gigabyte.com/MicroSite/279/images/mb-z68-touch-bios.html jaclaz

Well, if it helps you , the boot loader (7's boot loader) does not reside in the MBR. jaclaz

Uh-oh, logical flaw detected . You are assuming that I actually know how to fix a hdd in a situation like yours, which may or may not (it is not ) accurate. Point is that to get to the "next" step one needs a little tool that sells for several thousands bucks (and that needs proper training), and to go to the "further" step one needs, beside the above some even more specific tools and quite a bit of experience. And of course there are no guarantees of any kind that a recovery is possible at all, not even with these tools (and knowledge). I cannot help you on this, you can try asking over at hddguru, that forum's members (besides a few casual passers by) are mainly professionals (usually with a very bad character, extremely unwilling to help and often disturbed by the questions of newbies, but that obviously know where their towel is) and you may make contact with one of them working in London. (and yes you are IMHO correct about the fact that there are seemingly a large number of buffoons that advertise on the internet for services they cannot provide reliably). jaclaz

In the BIOS go to System configuration and post a screenshot of it. It should be like in this video: The given thread: http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Operating-Systems-and-Software/General-XP-Downgrade-Guide-for-HP-Laptops/td-p/83267 will (IF you actually READ it) provide full instructions on how to collect information about the appropriate drivers and where/how to find them. jaclaz

The DV6000 series specifically should have that provision in the BIOS. It should be under System Configuration-> Native SATA support-> Enabled/disabled. But still it would make more sense to find the appropriate SATA drivers and integrate them to the XP install CD. There is a specific thread on HP Forums about how exactly to "downgrade HP laptops from Windows Vista/7 to XP", here: http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Operating-Systems-and-Software/General-XP-Downgrade-Guide-for-HP-Laptops/td-p/83267 jaclaz

Good I don't use OE since what? 2001 or 2002 and it has never failed me either. What gives? Apart being like the single most insecure app ever conceived and being (my personal evaluation of it) the single most likely to be vector of malware, it's a nice app . jaclaz

Well, no. The fact that you did not see anyone digging there only means that you could not see them. For all you (and we) know they could be working behind a cloaking device of some kind and be digging alright. jaclaz

On other news, The Guardian just jumped over the fence. I had some doubts that they were completely nuts after the physical grinding down of laptop chips, but they just published a story which besides being very tall, makes them undoubtedly conspiracy theory members, if you are missing some FUD, here it is: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/feb/20/edward-snowden-files-nsa-gchq-luke-harding On the other hand, news about the data from 1.8 millions calls in the Netherlands harvested by our good Dutch friends, who made the collection in a legally way, obviously, and how this "had to do with Dutch military operations abroad" is an interesting new twist. http://rt.com/news/nsa-dutch-minister-intercepts-743/ jaclaz

@outfoxtv The fact that you do seem like nice guys and willing to help people that may have issues removing your stupid BHO (or whatever is it that changes the start page of browsers to your site) does NOT in any way change the fact that the BHO (or whatever) is installed the first time. This practice is seen by anyone possessing more than two working neurons as an an aggressive, senseless, vexing and overall stupid attempt to take control of someone else's user experience, particularly when the result (changing the start page to a given site) happens through the use of something that is (badly or cleverly) hidden and that insists of resetting the start page (which is a BAD behaviour typical of "malware", which not necessarily is a virus) If you want to do a favour to me, to the other members of this board and to a large part of mankind, you could stop the practice, as opposed to be kind and help to amend the damages that that practice causes after they have been caused, otherwise your thingy will be called "malware" because, whatever it does for the good, it also does at least one thing (the browser hijacking) that is what "malwares" do, and the equation outfox.tv=malware will be written all over the internet, besides all the places where it is already written. jaclaz