Re: Help with Mobile Laptop Audio


Arny Krueger wrote:

> From my perspective ICS is just another software router, and
> I've been fighting with routers on a regular schedule for
> years. I also have a number of both dial-up and cable ICS
> systems running, so I know how it sets-up and works when its
> working right. End users don't have this and it really hurts
> their efforts.

In this case, the symptom was very straightforward - you coudln't do
what the instructions told you to do because the options weren't
available on the menu. The answer was that the AOL dialer didn't
include the hooks necessary for Microsoft's ICS. It didn't see that
there was anything to share. Simple. Dell could have been excused from
knowing this except for the fact that they include AOL (and a free six
month subscription) with the computer. And it was completely
inexcusable for AOL tech support not to know the answer. But that was
then.

> > Then there was the recent issue I described here about
> > not being able to use a Firewire disk drive through the
> > PCMCIA adapter. Eventualy they told me that it just
> > wouldn't work with my motherboard, but that took a while,
> > and I'm still not sure why.
>
> Something was defective.

Not broken, just not designed right. But in any case, it isn't going to
get fixed.

> >And all too often it loses
> > its power management control, at least what I can see of
> > it, and doesn't blank the screen after the set period of
> > time. They don't have a clue about that either.
>
> Something is defective. Another debugging tool I have is a
> stash of spares. On a bad day I could pop in a new hard
> drive with a clean install of XP on it. Most people don't
> have resources like that in their pocket.

I don't, nor am I willing to accept re-installing Windows. There have
been too many updates and Ive made too many changes since the computer
was new. I don't want to have to figure out what to do in order to
bring it up to the today-minus-the-problem configuration. I don't
believe anything is defective, I believe it's a quirk, and if I do fix
it by re-installing Windows, it will "break" again.

> Agreed. If everything worked right I wouldn't have a
> business.

You could become a barrista or something. <g>

> Set the BIOS options back to the way they need to be to
> boot. This begs the question of how the settings got lost.
> PC's spontaneously losing their CMOS settings is one of the
> oldest stories in the biz. I try to build computers that
> will still work well enough if that happens.

Over on the Mackie forum, we blame that on a dying CMOS backup battery.
So they change the battery, restore all the settings to what they
should be, and it works.

> WinXP and Win2K networking compatibility is usually pretty
> good, unlike Win98SE versus XP or Win2K. My first guess
> would be problems in protocol land. Do they have the same
> protocols loaded? What about the TCP/IP parameters,
> particularly IP addresses.

There are few enough of those settings so that it's easy to check, and
I've tried re-installing TCP/IP on both computers. It used to work
fine, and then one day it didn't.

> I'd work over the protocol stacks for each computer.

How does one do that? What can I see that I'm not looking at? Could
there be a corrupt file? SFC doesn't think so, and I'd think this would
be something it would check.

> As costs go down, the personal service goes away.

But as I said earlier today, cost (to me, anyway) is likely to go up.
But then I guess a 50% increase over practically nothing is still
practically nothing.

.

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