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wierd lockups
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I think i mentioned this below, but I will repeat up here. The main problem I'm having right now is that I get lockups during games. I've only tested a couple, and I will try more soon. The ones causing problems are Heroes 3 and Deus Ex, and I think Max Payne also, but the game is not important. Here's the issue. The game(s) lock(s) after about 20 minutes. Just a hard lock, no crash, no BSofD, just pow, nothing works, and the screen freezes.
I never had this problem before switching hdds. Long story short, I now have a 10 gig wd, ata66 5400rpm. I reinstalled windows over the current installation. I surface scanned the drive, no errors. I ran just about every fix that norton utilities has, and games still lock, windows does not. I also reinstalled my video card drivers. I'm considering a hard reformat since nothing else seems to work.
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Here's the problem. I own a microsoft intellimouse 3.0 (gray/black with the small side buttons). I've had it for about 3 months.
The problem I've had is that when the mouse is moved rapidly, it fails to track. When I flick my wrist and try to move the pointer accross the screen, it stays in the same place and moves back and forth. Again, only at high speeds.
I can think of two causes.
Hardware problem: The mouse is new, and should therefore work perfectly. However, in hauling it back and forth to lan parties or mabye dropping it, the optical sensor assembly was damaged, and that is the cause.
Solution: I have no idea.
Software problem: Here's where it gets interesting. Being in a bad mood over having a $50 mouse go bad, I said, forget it. I'll plug in my old logitech ball mouse from downstairs until I sort the problem out. After plugging in, booting up, I moved the mouse again. Success. I moved it faster. There it is. Same error. Since I get tracking problems with each mouse, the hardware is removed from the list of problems, so it must therefore be a software problem. Currently, the software installed came off of the disk included with the mouse.
I have not yet been able to track down the logitech mouse's drivers, and I will look again tomorrow. However, as it stands, I can't be sure that buying a new mouse is the answer.
Oh yeah, I was gonna mention, but forgot, I changed hard drives back to my old 10 gig WD and gave my brother back his maxtor. This might be contributing, but how I don't know. I have had other problems as well, namely random but consistent lockups in games, ie every time I play, within 20 minutes it hard locks and I have to reset. Only change is the HDD. I've reinstalled windows, and each offending program with no success. Next step is a hard windows reinstall (Changing directory names and stuff, i need to look up how), and after that the dreaded reformat, which I really don't want to do.
Any help is appreciated.
xp1700
epox 8kha+
radeon 64mb ddr
256 mb ddr
tdk 12/10/32
and the dreaded WD Caviar 10.1 gb
I edited instead of starting a new thread.
I think i mentioned this below, but I will repeat up here. The main problem I'm having right now is that I get lockups during games. I've only tested a couple, and I will try more soon. The ones causing problems are Heroes 3 and Deus Ex, and I think Max Payne also, but the game is not important. Here's the issue. The game(s) lock(s) after about 20 minutes. Just a hard lock, no crash, no BSofD, just pow, nothing works, and the screen freezes.
I never had this problem before switching hdds. Long story short, I now have a 10 gig wd, ata66 5400rpm. I reinstalled windows over the current installation. I surface scanned the drive, no errors. I ran just about every fix that norton utilities has, and games still lock, windows does not. I also reinstalled my video card drivers. I'm considering a hard reformat since nothing else seems to work.
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old post
Here's the problem. I own a microsoft intellimouse 3.0 (gray/black with the small side buttons). I've had it for about 3 months.
The problem I've had is that when the mouse is moved rapidly, it fails to track. When I flick my wrist and try to move the pointer accross the screen, it stays in the same place and moves back and forth. Again, only at high speeds.
I can think of two causes.
Hardware problem: The mouse is new, and should therefore work perfectly. However, in hauling it back and forth to lan parties or mabye dropping it, the optical sensor assembly was damaged, and that is the cause.
Solution: I have no idea.
Software problem: Here's where it gets interesting. Being in a bad mood over having a $50 mouse go bad, I said, forget it. I'll plug in my old logitech ball mouse from downstairs until I sort the problem out. After plugging in, booting up, I moved the mouse again. Success. I moved it faster. There it is. Same error. Since I get tracking problems with each mouse, the hardware is removed from the list of problems, so it must therefore be a software problem. Currently, the software installed came off of the disk included with the mouse.
I have not yet been able to track down the logitech mouse's drivers, and I will look again tomorrow. However, as it stands, I can't be sure that buying a new mouse is the answer.
Oh yeah, I was gonna mention, but forgot, I changed hard drives back to my old 10 gig WD and gave my brother back his maxtor. This might be contributing, but how I don't know. I have had other problems as well, namely random but consistent lockups in games, ie every time I play, within 20 minutes it hard locks and I have to reset. Only change is the HDD. I've reinstalled windows, and each offending program with no success. Next step is a hard windows reinstall (Changing directory names and stuff, i need to look up how), and after that the dreaded reformat, which I really don't want to do.
Any help is appreciated.
xp1700
epox 8kha+
radeon 64mb ddr
256 mb ddr
tdk 12/10/32
and the dreaded WD Caviar 10.1 gb
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