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mouse pointer freezes up
The PC has an ASUS A7V266 mobo and 1 GHz Athlon CPU, OS is Win98SE. The
mouse pointer freezes (a serial port mouse) and I have to reboot to get going again. I had this problem with it before and found the solution after much trial and error, but I don't remember what the fix was. I recently had to rebuild this machine from scratch again, including resetting all CMOS and PNP data. It works fine again except the mouse pointer always freezes up after about 20 - 30 minutes. Troubleshooting it could take a very long time. Does anyone here have any suggestions what I might try? TIA. Bill S. |
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Mr. Correct wrote:
The PC has an ASUS A7V266 mobo and 1 GHz Athlon CPU, OS is Win98SE. The mouse pointer freezes (a serial port mouse) and I have to reboot to get going again. I had this problem with it before and found the solution after much trial and error, but I don't remember what the fix was. I recently had to rebuild this machine from scratch again, including resetting all CMOS and PNP data. It works fine again except the mouse pointer always freezes up after about 20 - 30 minutes. Troubleshooting it could take a very long time. Does anyone here have any suggestions what I might try? I would suggest an IRQ conflict with a modem. What serial port is your mouse plugged into? What COM port does your modem connect to? If they are both odd, or both even, then I think they are likely to use the same IRQ (this seems to be the case in Win9x from memory). Ben -- A7N8X FAQ: www.ben.pope.name/a7n8x_faq.html Questions by email will likely be ignored, please use the newsgroups. I'm not just a number. To many, I'm known as a String... |
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There is no modem. Only a USB/1394 adaptor card and a video card.
"Ben Pope" wrote in message ... Mr. Correct wrote: The PC has an ASUS A7V266 mobo and 1 GHz Athlon CPU, OS is Win98SE. The mouse pointer freezes (a serial port mouse) and I have to reboot to get going again. I had this problem with it before and found the solution after much trial and error, but I don't remember what the fix was. I recently had to rebuild this machine from scratch again, including resetting all CMOS and PNP data. It works fine again except the mouse pointer always freezes up after about 20 - 30 minutes. Troubleshooting it could take a very long time. Does anyone here have any suggestions what I might try? I would suggest an IRQ conflict with a modem. What serial port is your mouse plugged into? What COM port does your modem connect to? If they are both odd, or both even, then I think they are likely to use the same IRQ (this seems to be the case in Win9x from memory). Ben -- A7N8X FAQ: www.ben.pope.name/a7n8x_faq.html Questions by email will likely be ignored, please use the newsgroups. I'm not just a number. To many, I'm known as a String... |
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Have you tried a USB mouse?
Have you tried a second serial port? Could be the mouse... WinXP is good at sharing IRQ's. "Mr. Correct" wrote in message news:Pr6Db.547140$Tr4.1485491@attbi_s03... The PC has an ASUS A7V266 mobo and 1 GHz Athlon CPU, OS is Win98SE. The mouse pointer freezes (a serial port mouse) and I have to reboot to get going again. I had this problem with it before and found the solution after much trial and error, but I don't remember what the fix was. I recently had to rebuild this machine from scratch again, including resetting all CMOS and PNP data. It works fine again except the mouse pointer always freezes up after about 20 - 30 minutes. Troubleshooting it could take a very long time. Does anyone here have any suggestions what I might try? TIA. Bill S. |
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Mr. Correct wrote:
There is no modem. Only a USB/1394 adaptor card and a video card. So is it the mouse freezing up, or the entire system? When it freezes, can you change the caps lock/num lock status? Or do Ctrl-Alt-Del? Ben -- A7N8X FAQ: www.ben.pope.name/a7n8x_faq.html Questions by email will likely be ignored, please use the newsgroups. I'm not just a number. To many, I'm known as a String... |
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