Posts by drolston

Oops! My laptop is a model 8880, vintage 10/02, not a model 8887 as I stated in my original post. The ports really are USB 1.1 I am running XP w/Service Pack 1 plus every automatic Microsoft download since then. There is a USB chip...

My 8887 came with four USB 1.1 ports on the back. Not good for HP scanner or printer. Belken USB 2.0 PC card got me 2.0 speed for the printer but the scanner will not work on the Belkin card at all, only on the USB 1.1 port on the back...

Yeah, I can live with the racket, but I still wonder what background process is causing all the hard drive activity, when no application is running.

Successfully installed the Intel iaa222 accelerator and set the performance to maximum. The hard drive is still blnking and clicking away. Unfortunately the Toshiba hard drive does not support the acoustical options. I suppose will...

My new 8886 hard drive lite blinks constantly and the constant clicking is driving me nuts. I does this with no application running at all. I have turned off everything I dare on the Task Manager and it just keeps clicking. Plus I...