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Problem:

IE, in all it’s versions, ignores the z-index from non child elements, meaning that if you have a div inside another with z-index it’s fine, however, if there’s an external div (99%) of the cases, it will simply ignore the z-index.

Solution:

There’s no solution for this, but you can do a workaround. Even with IE ignoring the z-indexes it does has an order of placing elements in front of the others which is the order you have them on html, so if you have a header menu that should appear in the top of everything, you can place the html in the footer of the page, with position absolute, to the header position. This might not work for all cases, but helped mine. since the div in question was hidden and would appear when a element at header was clicked.

Problem:

Since i’m broke, i need to get this type of jobs in order to make some dough, it’s not that i don’t like it, but it’s good to have a challenge ahead.

So i got 2 old  machines to reinstall the OS, might look a simple task, but it wasn’t. Both machines didn’t regonize the keyboard, one of them, required an adapter from the ps/2 to the big ps/2 which i don’t know the right name.

So i was stuck on the POST, “Keyboard not found press any key to continue” — hahahah — also one of the machines got a battery malfuncion, which means that once it’s unplugged it’s BIOS will reset to factory defaults.

Solution:

First i tried and old `big ps/2` keyboard i have here, i though that my keywboard might be not working right. FAIL.

Then i tried an alternate ps/2 hook i had. FAIL.

On one of the machines i was able to bypass the POST, however, the machine’s devices weren’t configured, so i couldn’t boot. Although the keyboard was working, misteriously, NOT on the POST.

So i decided to do a hard reset on the BIOS, for the first machine it instantly worked, i got the keyboard with the adaptor working just fine, so i could boot the system up and reinstall the OS. Now for the second one, i couldn’t get into BIOS Setup, keyboard wasn’t being detected at all. half FAIL.

I have this ps/2 -> usb thingy, it allows me to plug a ps/2 mouse and a ps/2 keyboard and converts it to a usb port. So i tried this and it, finally worked. In this case i had to enable legacy usb keyboard support on BIOS, in order to have it working after POST.

I also had a spare motherboard battery (from an 386 board) which worked just great on this , also crappy, old computer, so no more BIOS resets.

Hope it lasts for more than a month so i don’t have to redo it for free! :)