Zuespaul, It's not a Dell problem, if you remember back in late August I was complaining on this thread about a problem where my screen would go all gray, I would here a click from the monitor and then the screen would turn all gray. They system would have to be shut down and turned back on. I was so pissed off I sent that system back to Dell, it was a XPS 400.
When I hooked up my Dell 166, everything works 100% fine.
A couple weeks later, I couldn't stand it, so I bought a XPS 450, when I received it, I did these alterations:
Adaptec SCSI card
HP 7200 CDR-W i
SCSI CD-ROM
Sound Blaster Live
Logitech 3 button mouse
Keytronic KB101 Plus keyboard
Then I started installing my software,
WordPerfect
Nuts & Bolts 98
Hotdog 5
FTP program
PhotoShop 5
etc......
Then once all the software was installed this bug would show up while posting on SI, using the cut and paste feature, I would get it.
THIS IS THE BUG
When you click to highlight text, you end up highlighting a full paragraph of text, you can't use the keyboard, when you right click on the desk top, you get a menu as you would when you right click in a program. You have to COLD boot the machine.
ALSO,
I have run into that bug again where the screen goes gray. I stuck a floppy disk in A: drive to check it for viruses, the screen would turn gray, and have to re-boot.
So I formatted the HD, and re-installed all the software from scratch, SLOWLY over a couple weeks. When I felt confident that the problem was gone, I installed the remaining programs, WP8, Hotdog 5, FTP program, MP3 player, Logitech 8.2 drivers, etc....THEN the problem came back.
Since removing hotdog 5, WP8, Iomega drivers, the system has only gone buggy once. I had a suggestion from Catlady to swap the keyboard, so now I am using the Dell KB. So far, everything is fine, although PhotoShop last night went haywire, a help screen popped up out of now where and I couldn't get rid of it, I minimized it, and it came right back up. Had to re-boot the system again.
I am open to anything now, as I have ran this past ALLOT of people, they have never heard of this problem. Dell figured it was video related, but he said you have to systematically remove software, etc to try and locate the problem as he never heard of that before.
I will re-build my HD once again, keeping only the software that came with the system. I will run the system through the ringer to make the bug pop up again.
Any impute from anyone would be greatly appreciated. I once had a program to check ram, but it was for Win 3.1. If anyone has a link I would appreciate it.
Please note: The system is allot more stable since the removal of Hotdog, WP, Iomega drivers.
Thanks for the help guys.
One last note:
This bug mainly shows up while posting on SI, using cut and paste and a word proccessor. I use Netscape 4.5.
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