Flufball
Sunday, 5th March 2006, 01:02
Horray, I appear to have broken somthing, as my mouse is now not working and my DVD drive has a driver conflict meaning it wont appear.
Whats frustrating me is that Windows and my Machine is seemingly recognising my device, even letting me boot via CD, but as soon as I get into Windows it just turns around and tells me its not having it while still having it listed as conflicted in the device manager.
My mouse is even more baffeling, tried several and none work, its like Windows has decided I can't have one anymore.
The only two possible reasons I can think of that my have caused this are the fact that I was messing about inside my machine trying to get my Audigy 2 working (Damn feedback loops from microphone) and my have knocked somthing out or that I decided this evening was the right time to put my Linux Distro back on my machine, which may have caused errors (see coming reasons).
The first is possible, however for some reason I just can't see it being this, I'm leaning more towards the second one as when I was attempting to put my linux distro back on my machine it failed, several times, during the initial instalation, however intrestingly enough these where caused by errors reading my DVD drive, and I know its not my CD as I have used it on several other machines.
So, rather than tear my hair out trying to figure it out solo, do any of you have any suggestions as to what the problem may be?
My current mouse is an MX510, and my DVD Drive is an ElCheapo one (aka AOPEN DVD 1648/AAP PRO).
Fun and games indeed. Particualy when browsing with only a keyboard to get you around.
Whats frustrating me is that Windows and my Machine is seemingly recognising my device, even letting me boot via CD, but as soon as I get into Windows it just turns around and tells me its not having it while still having it listed as conflicted in the device manager.
My mouse is even more baffeling, tried several and none work, its like Windows has decided I can't have one anymore.
The only two possible reasons I can think of that my have caused this are the fact that I was messing about inside my machine trying to get my Audigy 2 working (Damn feedback loops from microphone) and my have knocked somthing out or that I decided this evening was the right time to put my Linux Distro back on my machine, which may have caused errors (see coming reasons).
The first is possible, however for some reason I just can't see it being this, I'm leaning more towards the second one as when I was attempting to put my linux distro back on my machine it failed, several times, during the initial instalation, however intrestingly enough these where caused by errors reading my DVD drive, and I know its not my CD as I have used it on several other machines.
So, rather than tear my hair out trying to figure it out solo, do any of you have any suggestions as to what the problem may be?
My current mouse is an MX510, and my DVD Drive is an ElCheapo one (aka AOPEN DVD 1648/AAP PRO).
Fun and games indeed. Particualy when browsing with only a keyboard to get you around.