[WriteLog] Writelog and W 98 operation

[Jim Smith]

Hi Dave,

1.  I too have a PIII 500 & Win 98.  I have used Logitech and MS mice on 
the machine with no mouse problems.  I changed to a USB mouse to free up 
a serial port and it's fine too (except when RF gets into it).  I do 
recall in the past having mouse troubles on an older machine.  The 
general consensus at the time was that, with some video cards, moving 
the mouse too quickly or at the wrong time would cause it to freeze or 
even (not sure of this) crash the computer.

2.  I have had the keyboard repeating letters.  It was my own fault.  I 
knocked over a glass full of wine onto it.  My keyboard is the Salvador 
Dali inspired MS ergonomic one.  Inside there are three layers of thin 
but strong plastic sheet material.  When you press a key, it pushes a 
copper trace (a la PC board) on the top sheet through a hole in the 
middle sheet against another copper trace on the bottom sheet.  These 
sheets are easily separable.  So, I separated them and cleaned them 
thoroughly (distilled water would be a good idea if you live in a hard 
water area).  Everything's FB now.

2.a.  In rereading your post I see that the keyboard works on other 
machines.  If you press a key and hold it down for a while does it keep 
repeating?  If so, somewhere (maybe in the BIOS setup) you can set how 
long you have to hold down the key before it starts to repeat.  This 
setting may be shorter on your PIII than on the other machines.  Try 
making it longer.

Hope this helps

73 de Jim Smith    VE7FO

Dave L Thompson wrote:

>I am using a W 98 Ver 2 to run Writelog and also do the log checking of
>the 2003 CQ 1660 Contests with WT4I Contest Directors tools.   At the
>suggestion of Dave K6LL I now also run the resource meter which puts an
>icon on the task bar.  The icon has several green bars if running OK then
>can go to yellow bars (caution on resources) and finally to red bars and
>then you need to reboot and get rid of some of the background programs
>running.    With W98 and 128MB RAM (P III 500Mhz) the bars stay green. 
>On my 166Mhz PC running W95 ver 2 it does get to yellow when I have
>several programs up and run Earthlink/mindspring.   
>
>I do have two problems that I need to solve.  
>
>1.   The mouse gets frozen or lost easily in W98.  I understand this is a
>W 98 bug and I wonder if anyone
>       has a fix.   The mouse I use is a normal IBM two button mouse.  I
>tried an intelligent mouse from               Microsoft and it stopped  
>so often I gave up.
>
>2.    This keyboard has started giving double letters or numbers ( 66 for
>6 or nn for n).  It does not do this on the W95 PC or and older W 3.1 PC.
> Is this a problem with W98?   It only happens every so often but its a
>real problem logging calls etc.
>
>73 Dave K4JRB
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