I built a cheap machine to replace one that suddenly bit the dust overnight and now have been fighting an annoying problem with my mouse pointer acting as if it has an IRQ conflict (even though its a ps2 with its own port). While moving the mouse in normal use, sometimes the cursor sticks or stops as if the cpu decided to use its IRQ for something else. I have built many pc's so its kicking my butt. Heres what I have: New case, ECS P4S5A/DX+ Motherboard, Intel 1.7 478 pin Celeron, and 1 floppy, 1 CD Burner, Creative TNT2 32 MB Video, Creative SB Live, PNY 256 MB SDRAM, Built in Network port and not much else. The Celeron is the item I keep thinking is hosing me with its huge 128 cache! I had 512 SDRAM in but removed one stick in case of timing problem, I removed fan on CPU and replaced the factory foil tape thermal barrier with thermal paste in case of a hot spot. I reinstalled the OS Win/98 SE on another partition for testing (same problem) and swapped the mouse with a new one. I do have ETrust AntiVirus and Kerio Personal Firewall (I removed ZoneAlarm thinking it was the problem) and the mouse sticks even with the firewall disabled. It seems more pevelant when online and now I am wondering if this is normal an I am too focused on it, or if its a problem? Anyone have this happen to them?
Thanks,
schemer