wierd peripheral problem with dell 4100
my friend has a dell 4100 with a 1ghz p3 and 256 megs o' ram. recently, her windows install decided it didn't really want to use her mouse and keyboard anymore.
So I gave it a look, and decided that windows had probably somehow borked all her drivers (especially since she said she kept getting corrupt file errors with iTunes) so I went and tried to do a repair install. Now the keyboard works in the bios and when booted off the windows CD, but the MINUTE that CD reboots the machine to work on doing all that windows reinstall crap and it brings up all those dialog boxes for setting the timezone and network and whatnot, I can't use the keyboard anymore.
Now this is a PS2 keyboard (I really don't think the mouse is the issue, but I was trying to use a USB mouse) and it's really starting to frustrate me.
I was considering removing her harddrive and shoving it in my pc, and using her peripherals for doing a repair install. This is where I encounter my second problem. Dell has used some kind of ****ed up drive cage that stands the drive on end and pins it to the front of the case, and I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get the harddrive out of here. any suggestions?
So I gave it a look, and decided that windows had probably somehow borked all her drivers (especially since she said she kept getting corrupt file errors with iTunes) so I went and tried to do a repair install. Now the keyboard works in the bios and when booted off the windows CD, but the MINUTE that CD reboots the machine to work on doing all that windows reinstall crap and it brings up all those dialog boxes for setting the timezone and network and whatnot, I can't use the keyboard anymore.
Now this is a PS2 keyboard (I really don't think the mouse is the issue, but I was trying to use a USB mouse) and it's really starting to frustrate me.
I was considering removing her harddrive and shoving it in my pc, and using her peripherals for doing a repair install. This is where I encounter my second problem. Dell has used some kind of ****ed up drive cage that stands the drive on end and pins it to the front of the case, and I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get the harddrive out of here. any suggestions?
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