Mouse Jumps

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by rontom, Nov 27, 2004.

  1. rontom

    rontom Private E-2

    At times my mouse will freeze then jump. Also, I've noticed that my hard drive light flickers every second. I've run the latest versions of Ad-Aware, Spybot, Norton, Hijack This, Trend Micro's free scan, CleanMoCache to chean up Firefox 1.0, Window Washer to clean up Initernet Explorer 6.0 for WinXP HE SP2, Zone Alarm & System Security Suite 1.04. Firewall for SP2 is disabled. All of my drivers are updated. I installed a driver for my Microsoft Wheel Mouse called Intelepoint which didn't help. The mouse is clean. I've just installed another identical mouse from my other machine, so far no lockups for the last fifteen minuits. I've noticed that my games don't play as well either, lockups & jerky motion. All of these symtoms started after trying to download a 3D screansaver that failed to download but instead installed four marketing icons on my desktop.
    :rolleyes:
     
  2. rontom

    rontom Private E-2

    No more problems with the mouse after replacing it. I downloaded the older nvidia video driver signed by microsoft, games play great. I still have the hard drive light flicker every second. :)
     
  3. mcadam

    mcadam Major Amnesia

    well you've learnt a decent lesson here then - don't download screensavers from these dodgy sites - absolutely FULL of spyware!!

    harddrive light flickering can be a number of things, first two that come to mind are memory usage and cooling inside - any fans/watercooling in the case? i remember earlier this year i had a computer with no fans and it just constantly loaded - bunged a cheap 80mm coloured fan in there and presto it was fine! ;)
     

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