I've started a new thread as it would appear I've stumbled on yet another "fix". People may have got bored with the "Arrrrggh....." thread - yeah?
Firstly thanks to XOG for making me review Dell's Power Managment menu. He [?] spoke of "accidently" stumbling on this as a fix. Dell laptop owners have a power managment screen that allows us to "set-up" how the Mains and Battery supply is used. This is to conserve battery power. The type of conservation is related to screen, hd and other "power" usage, timeout and shut-down options. EG - hd not being used for 1min thru' xhours the pc will shut down - yeah? PLus an option to have 3 types of "overall" power mangment formats: Home Desktop; Laptop/Portable & ALWAYS ON. Soooo... after selecting ALWAYS ON, no BS. I then selected Home/Desktop, no BS. I haven't tried Laptop/Portable yet, but my guess would be I could re-create the problem. I must say I DID have this issue while I was on the Home Desktop format.
Here's the thing! - I'm just wondering if this power managment function could/can get corrupted - yeah? And my reinstatement of ANY format brings it back online and into line. In analysing the BS frequency AND where it appears I'm coming to the conclusion that there is a "programme" access something. It does this in different places at different times. BUT, the actual "event" is very exact: 2 pairs of 0.5-1.5 sec BS, followed by an almost exact 5 second gap of good PTT then the second pair occurs. This will go on until the next "event". NOW, I may be being a tad paranoid here, but, I'm thinking now that maybe, the power managment function must do a "time" related search to see if the pc is "working" and say "Okay - Grazie's appears to be using the Dell so we don't need to conserve power, okay we'll stay on using the battery/mains - all agreed? Okay we'll stay on." In any other process this is a commendable piece of programming - conserving battery power.
Secondly, got some Updates from MS for WinME. These updates "appear" as only security and .NET Framework updates. Can't imagine what/how this improves matters.
Thirdly, Cold Reboot - NOT just render and then PTT, but close down PC and reboot.
Now, which one of these OR all of the above did it but the same 53min clip that was giving the BS before did 2 successful, BS-free PTTs - no tripping up of the process.
I didn't empty the programmes running: Norton; HP; CD helper; Contpur Shuttle Pro Helper; Mouse Helper; CacheMan and ADSL icon.
Any thoughts on this?
Slightly elated,
Grazie
Firstly thanks to XOG for making me review Dell's Power Managment menu. He [?] spoke of "accidently" stumbling on this as a fix. Dell laptop owners have a power managment screen that allows us to "set-up" how the Mains and Battery supply is used. This is to conserve battery power. The type of conservation is related to screen, hd and other "power" usage, timeout and shut-down options. EG - hd not being used for 1min thru' xhours the pc will shut down - yeah? PLus an option to have 3 types of "overall" power mangment formats: Home Desktop; Laptop/Portable & ALWAYS ON. Soooo... after selecting ALWAYS ON, no BS. I then selected Home/Desktop, no BS. I haven't tried Laptop/Portable yet, but my guess would be I could re-create the problem. I must say I DID have this issue while I was on the Home Desktop format.
Here's the thing! - I'm just wondering if this power managment function could/can get corrupted - yeah? And my reinstatement of ANY format brings it back online and into line. In analysing the BS frequency AND where it appears I'm coming to the conclusion that there is a "programme" access something. It does this in different places at different times. BUT, the actual "event" is very exact: 2 pairs of 0.5-1.5 sec BS, followed by an almost exact 5 second gap of good PTT then the second pair occurs. This will go on until the next "event". NOW, I may be being a tad paranoid here, but, I'm thinking now that maybe, the power managment function must do a "time" related search to see if the pc is "working" and say "Okay - Grazie's appears to be using the Dell so we don't need to conserve power, okay we'll stay on using the battery/mains - all agreed? Okay we'll stay on." In any other process this is a commendable piece of programming - conserving battery power.
Secondly, got some Updates from MS for WinME. These updates "appear" as only security and .NET Framework updates. Can't imagine what/how this improves matters.
Thirdly, Cold Reboot - NOT just render and then PTT, but close down PC and reboot.
Now, which one of these OR all of the above did it but the same 53min clip that was giving the BS before did 2 successful, BS-free PTTs - no tripping up of the process.
I didn't empty the programmes running: Norton; HP; CD helper; Contpur Shuttle Pro Helper; Mouse Helper; CacheMan and ADSL icon.
Any thoughts on this?
Slightly elated,
Grazie