If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#1
|
|||
|
|||
Laptop cursor freezing...
.... or at least that is what appears to be happening intermittently. Is
the pad going bad? Or are other things causing the delays? I've noticed it also pauses occasionally after I've typed a few keystrokes before they appear. What can I check? It's getting decidedly worse this a.m., and I haven't spilled anything on it. It's a Gateway MX 6440. Any advice will be greatly appreciated. Barbara |
#2
|
|||
|
|||
Laptop cursor freezing...
chicagofan wrote:
... or at least that is what appears to be happening intermittently. Is the pad going bad? Or are other things causing the delays? I've noticed it also pauses occasionally after I've typed a few keystrokes before they appear. What can I check? It's getting decidedly worse this a.m., and I haven't spilled anything on it. It's a Gateway MX 6440. Any advice will be greatly appreciated. Barbara Should alter this to say... "total keyboard" freezing frequently. bj |
#3
|
|||
|
|||
Laptop cursor freezing...
chicagofan wrote:
chicagofan wrote: ... or at least that is what appears to be happening intermittently. Is the pad going bad? Or are other things causing the delays? I've noticed it also pauses occasionally after I've typed a few keystrokes before they appear. What can I check? It's getting decidedly worse this a.m., and I haven't spilled anything on it. It's a Gateway MX 6440. Any advice will be greatly appreciated. Barbara Should alter this to say... "total keyboard" freezing frequently. bj Hate to keep doing this piece meal, but after checking performance [with ctrl/alt/delete] I see that my pc is having 95-100% cpu usage *bursts* every few mins. Do I have a trojan or something? I've never had one before in 15 yrs online, so I don't know what they do. TIA.... bj |
#4
|
|||
|
|||
Laptop cursor freezing...
In ,
chicagofan typed on Sat, 07 Feb 2009 10:54:55 -0500: ... or at least that is what appears to be happening intermittently. Is the pad going bad? Or are other things causing the delays? I've noticed it also pauses occasionally after I've typed a few keystrokes before they appear. What can I check? It's getting decidedly worse this a.m., and I haven't spilled anything on it. It's a Gateway MX 6440. Any advice will be greatly appreciated. Hi Barbara! I would check the Task Manager for something using a lot of CPU time. I also would check the cursor movement under safe mode. As everything should be fine there. If not, you might have another problem going on. Let us know what you find. -- Bill 2 Gateway MX6124 - Windows XP SP2 3 Asus EEE PC 701G4 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC 2 Asus EEE PC 702G8 ~ 1GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC Windows XP SP2 ~ Xandros Linux - Puppy - Ubuntu |
#5
|
|||
|
|||
Laptop freezing...
chicagofan wrote:
chicagofan wrote: chicagofan wrote: ... or at least that is what appears to be happening intermittently. Is the pad going bad? Or are other things causing the delays? I've noticed it also pauses occasionally after I've typed a few keystrokes before they appear. What can I check? It's getting decidedly worse this a.m., and I haven't spilled anything on it. It's a Gateway MX 6440. Any advice will be greatly appreciated. Barbara Should alter this to say... "total keyboard" freezing frequently. bj Hate to keep doing this piece meal, but after checking performance [with ctrl/alt/delete] I see that my pc is having 95-100% cpu usage *bursts* every few mins. Do I have a trojan or something? I've never had one before in 15 yrs online, so I don't know what they do. TIA.... bj OK... panic's over about my laptop dying by degrees. After checking Sys config and finding no new Start Up items, and seeing that no new processes are running, I'm convinced it's the update to my browser I made earlier this week that is doing this. I'll pursue this in the Mozilla newsgroups. BTW, is there still an icon you can use [in Win XP] on the task bar, that will show cpu usage? Seems like I used to have that on an older Windows pc. Just want to say I'm glad some of you, especially you Ben Myers are keeping this group alive. Gateway is still my preference, even though it's been sold. bj |
#6
|
|||
|
|||
Laptop cursor freezing...
In ,
chicagofan typed on Sat, 07 Feb 2009 11:22:27 -0500: chicagofan wrote: chicagofan wrote: ... or at least that is what appears to be happening intermittently. Is the pad going bad? Or are other things causing the delays? I've noticed it also pauses occasionally after I've typed a few keystrokes before they appear. What can I check? It's getting decidedly worse this a.m., and I haven't spilled anything on it. It's a Gateway MX 6440. Any advice will be greatly appreciated. Barbara Should alter this to say... "total keyboard" freezing frequently. bj Hate to keep doing this piece meal, but after checking performance [with ctrl/alt/delete] I see that my pc is having 95-100% cpu usage *bursts* every few mins. Do I have a trojan or something? I've never had one before in 15 yrs online, so I don't know what they do. TIA.... bj Click on the Process tab and tell us which process is eating up all of the time. -- Bill 2 Gateway MX6124 - Windows XP SP2 3 Asus EEE PC 701G4 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC 2 Asus EEE PC 702G8 ~ 1GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC Windows XP SP2 ~ Xandros Linux - Puppy - Ubuntu |
#7
|
|||
|
|||
Laptop freezing...
In ,
chicagofan typed on Sat, 07 Feb 2009 11:58:43 -0500: chicagofan wrote: chicagofan wrote: chicagofan wrote: ... or at least that is what appears to be happening intermittently. Is the pad going bad? Or are other things causing the delays? I've noticed it also pauses occasionally after I've typed a few keystrokes before they appear. What can I check? It's getting decidedly worse this a.m., and I haven't spilled anything on it. It's a Gateway MX 6440. Any advice will be greatly appreciated. Barbara Should alter this to say... "total keyboard" freezing frequently. bj Hate to keep doing this piece meal, but after checking performance [with ctrl/alt/delete] I see that my pc is having 95-100% cpu usage *bursts* every few mins. Do I have a trojan or something? I've never had one before in 15 yrs online, so I don't know what they do. TIA.... bj OK... panic's over about my laptop dying by degrees. After checking Sys config and finding no new Start Up items, and seeing that no new processes are running, I'm convinced it's the update to my browser I made earlier this week that is doing this. I'll pursue this in the Mozilla newsgroups. BTW, is there still an icon you can use [in Win XP] on the task bar, that will show cpu usage? Seems like I used to have that on an older Windows pc. Just want to say I'm glad some of you, especially you Ben Myers are keeping this group alive. Gateway is still my preference, even though it's been sold. bj You can minimize the Task Manager and it will show CPU usage in the System Tray. Although I like MS free Process Explorer much better. Whatever you use, just make a shortcut in your Startup folder if you want it to automatically run at boot. -- Bill 2 Gateway MX6124 - Windows XP SP2 3 Asus EEE PC 701G4 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC 2 Asus EEE PC 702G8 ~ 1GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC Windows XP SP2 ~ Xandros Linux - Puppy - Ubuntu |
#8
|
|||
|
|||
Laptop freezing...
BillW50 wrote:
chicagofan typed on Sat, 07 Feb 2009 11:58:43 -0500: OK... panic's over about my laptop dying by degrees. After checking Sys config and finding no new Start Up items, and seeing that no new processes are running, I'm convinced it's the update to my browser I made earlier this week that is doing this. I'll pursue this in the Mozilla newsgroups. BTW, is there still an icon you can use [in Win XP] on the task bar, that will show cpu usage? Seems like I used to have that on an older Windows pc. bj You can minimize the Task Manager and it will show CPU usage in the System Tray. Although I like MS free Process Explorer much better. Whatever you use, just make a shortcut in your Startup folder if you want it to automatically run at boot. Thanks so much, Bill for your replies! I thought my trustworthy laptop was failing and it's such a relief to have a place to go and get help. I'll check out the Process Explorer, before setting up the Task Manager. Thanks again for all your advice. bj |
#9
|
|||
|
|||
Laptop freezing...
In ,
chicagofan typed: Thanks so much, Bill for your replies! I thought my trustworthy laptop was failing and it's such a relief to have a place to go and get help. I'll check out the Process Explorer, before setting up the Task Manager. Thanks again for all your advice. bj Sure no problem. -- Bill 2 Gateway MX6124 - Windows XP SP2 3 Asus EEE PC 701G4 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC 2 Asus EEE PC 702G8 ~ 1GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC Windows XP SP2 ~ Xandros Linux - Puppy - Ubuntu |
#10
|
|||
|
|||
Laptop freezing...
I have a nice program called StatBar that runs a very thin bar across the
top of the screen and shows CPU usage, memory usage, and a number of other things, you can choose what to put on it. Free at: http://www.statbar.nl/ chicagofan wrote: | | OK... panic's over about my laptop dying by degrees. After checking | Sys config and finding no new Start Up items, and seeing that no new | processes are running, I'm convinced it's the update to my browser I | made earlier this week that is doing this. I'll pursue this in the | Mozilla newsgroups. | | BTW, is there still an icon you can use [in Win XP] on the task bar, | that will show cpu usage? Seems like I used to have that on an older | Windows pc. | | Just want to say I'm glad some of you, especially you Ben Myers are | keeping this group alive. Gateway is still my preference, even though | it's been sold. | bj |
|
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Dell laptop freezing | vyzer | Dell Computers | 1 | April 5th 06 05:03 PM |
Dell laptop freezing | vyzer | Dell Computers | 2 | September 4th 05 03:33 AM |
Dell laptop freezing | vyzer | Dell Computers | 0 | August 22nd 05 03:33 AM |
Acer 2026 laptop freezing | cjd | Acer Computers | 1 | January 10th 05 02:44 PM |
Laptop Freezing at point POST (Compaq logo) screen | Ken Sponauer | General Hardware | 3 | June 12th 04 04:35 AM |