Various XP Problems

[Aaron]

Very rare for me to start a new thread and tell my XP problems, here are the various problems I've collected over the past months:

I bought an Epson Stylus C60 printer last year and since then its always lost the connection to my PC, faulty USB port or bad drivers. Just now I've found drivers which are XP compatible, so I'm going to try them out next wednesday when I get back on my XP machine.

Another problem I've had is that the keyboard sometimes loses the connection to the PC. I have to take it out of the PS/2 port then put it back in. No reboot needed, it works fine after. hrm... its only a basic cheap £20 multimedia keyboard.

And... another problem you may have known about long ago:

http://www.msfn.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1622

and more detail at: http://www.iexbeta.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/i...ST;f=13;t=11142

I've come to the conclusion that since the USB, PS/2 ports, and the graphics slot is all linked to the motherboard, I think I may have a faulty motheboard. I remember that when I first bought the PC, the network card f**ked up, so I took it out to replace with another. My mistake was that I took it out when the power cable was still in, and it powered up my machine when I was taking the bad NIC out. This could have damaged the mobo in someway.

Any ideas guys?

oh, and why the hell am I getting a crappy font in the Help and Support Center only, and a nice lucida sans console font everywhere else?

[img:f0cab9612c]http://vzone.virgin.net/aaron.stevens/help_center_font.png[/img:f0cab9612c]

[FthrJACK]

i know whats wrong!

your pc doesent work...

yeah sounds like mobo to me, might be one of the components causing it tho, try take something out and see if it does it. keep taking stuff out and putting stuff back till u find what it is. for your nic to have blown.. could it be a problem with your hub? any problems with the other machines? cards blowing up etc?

wierd...

[Aaron]

It was just a crappy 3com NIC that just failed after 3 days of using my new PC. probably static from when I inserted the cat5 cable in, who knows. anyway, none of my mates computers are affected so its not the hub. I put in a new NIC, Genius LAN Ethernet GTRIII or something like that, works nice and fast.

But mobo is probably f**ked due to taking out the faulty 3com NIC when the power cable was still in.

[Aaron]

*bumpeh*