Friday, August 31, 2007

USB Legacy Support Enabled on Area51

I was unable to use my old HP USB keyboard on the Windows Vista boot menu, although I could use it to access the BIOS menu (F2) -- good thing, too, because then I was able to set USB Legacy Support to "Auto," from "Disabled." This did the trick.  

Thursday, August 30, 2007

ShuttleX Dies: Massive RAM failure

I just picked up Battlefeild 2142 and imaging how pleased I was when I found it would (possibly) run on my old breadbox, ShuttleX -- a Pentium 4. Well, since I haven't really booted it up in almost a month, maybe more, I had no idea that I had a major RAM failure and now I can't boot into Ubuntu, Windows (installed on the HD) or even from Knoppix. Only the Knoppix 5.01 CD gave me the full report on the kernel panic error, which suggested bad RAM chip(s). I ran memtest off the Knoppix CD and confirmed that it was the RAM.