https://alexandraerin.dreamwidth.org/ alexandraerin - Dreamwidth Studios Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:27:32 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios alexandraerin personal https://v2.dreamwidth.org/789936/715244 https://alexandraerin.dreamwidth.org/ 100 100 https://alexandraerin.dreamwidth.org/324988.html Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:27:32 GMT https://alexandraerin.dreamwidth.org/324988.html Well, after having it happen three times in a row, I've discovered a proximate cause for my netbook's newly formed habit of freezing up completely while I'm using it. It happens when my hand jiggles the USB connector on my headphones, a not-uncommon occurrence due to the placement of the USB port on the right side of the computer. I've moved the headphones over to a USB port on the left side of the keyboard.<br /><br />Don't know what's going on with the computer/that USB port that it gets that finicky. When I say it freezes up, I mean it becomes completely unresponsive... mouse pointer locks in place, computer responds to no input whatsoever short of a forced shutdown (holding the power button in). But hopefully this will improve its usability... I couldn't swear in hindsight that I knocked the USB cord every time it's locked up in the past ten days, but it's not hard to reproduce the behavior.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=alexandraerin&ditemid=324988" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://alexandraerin.dreamwidth.org/324988.html computer problems public 0