Quick Fixes Serendiptiously Found

[lee]

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FWIW, lately, I discovered two solutions to problems I'd been having with my
Inspiron 8600.

1. Sometimes, XP was reporting no disk in the cd-rw drive. I discovered that
after running Sonic Record software, and bringing up the drive, all went well
and the disk was seen again. I also found an updated driver for the drive, an
Hitachi LG Data Storage, DMOD, GCC-4241 NA100 on the support.dell.com site,
and installed it. Don't know if that will help.

2. Sometimes, my usb devices were not being detected, especially when I
hot-plugged them in. I simply went to the Control
Panel>System>Hardware>Device Manger panel, selected Ports, and ran a *Scan for
new Devices*. And, voila, the usb devices were seen again!

Hope this helps.




CUL8R



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"Lee" <lkokot@sonic.net> wrote in message
news:v61u905s0k97c7i1suuil3qp81hgljncbp@4ax.com...
> FWIW, lately, I discovered two solutions to problems I'd been having with
my
> Inspiron 8600.
>
> 1. Sometimes, XP was reporting no disk in the cd-rw drive. I discovered
that
> after running Sonic Record software, and bringing up the drive, all went
well
> and the disk was seen again. I also found an updated driver for the drive,
an
> Hitachi LG Data Storage, DMOD, GCC-4241 NA100 on the support.dell.com
site,
> and installed it. Don't know if that will help.
>
> 2. Sometimes, my usb devices were not being detected, especially when I
> hot-plugged them in. I simply went to the Control
> Panel>System>Hardware>Device Manger panel, selected Ports, and ran a *Scan
for
> new Devices*. And, voila, the usb devices were seen again!
>
> Hope this helps.
>
>
>
>
> CUL8R
>
> R*Horse

I prefer to think of these 'Quick Fixes' as a dirty workaround.