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Mouse Freezes when I log on to the net.
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Your computer is very busy at the moment. This may sound stupid but I've seen the same slow mouse behavior on an HP Vectra at work and the only way I could correct it was by turning the printer off.<br>
Turn the printer on and the mouse cursor grinds to a crawl -- turn the printer off and everything is back to normal. I couldn't isolate the problem further. A normal printer, a normal system and a normal connection, all of which appeared to be at war with each other. Eliminate one of the variables and the equation works just dandy.<br>
Are you networked? Do you have any shared drives, printers, etc? Are you behind a firewall? Do you use a Web Beadle? Etc... ad nauseum.... More details would be helpful but wouldn't insure a solution.<br>
The chances that you are having the same problem are one in a million but the problem was fresh in my mind (having seen it only yesterday).<br>
Using Windows? The odds of a hardware or virtual memory problem are slim (in this case). Contact your ISP and see if they have an upgrade that will correct the problem.<br>
Sometimes the only way to correct a problem is to fight voodoo with more voodoo.<br>
Probably not the case in your instance.<br>
Turn the printer on and the mouse cursor grinds to a crawl -- turn the printer off and everything is back to normal. I couldn't isolate the problem further. A normal printer, a normal system and a normal connection, all of which appeared to be at war with each other. Eliminate one of the variables and the equation works just dandy.<br>
Are you networked? Do you have any shared drives, printers, etc? Are you behind a firewall? Do you use a Web Beadle? Etc... ad nauseum.... More details would be helpful but wouldn't insure a solution.<br>
The chances that you are having the same problem are one in a million but the problem was fresh in my mind (having seen it only yesterday).<br>
Using Windows? The odds of a hardware or virtual memory problem are slim (in this case). Contact your ISP and see if they have an upgrade that will correct the problem.<br>
Sometimes the only way to correct a problem is to fight voodoo with more voodoo.<br>
Probably not the case in your instance.<br>
What OS are you using? What is running at the time other than your ISP connection? (Do a CTRL-ALT-DEL in Win9x or goto Task Manger in NT or do a TOP in *Nix) -- try stopping everything unnecessary including things in your toolbar...<br>
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Alt255 - Where you saw this problem, was it a bidirectional printer and was it a common printer? I was thinking that it could possibly be in your case a printer trying to tell the OS its ready and sending it status reports too frequently or else it could possibly be that the OS is trying to understand what the printer is saying, but not getting it, so it queries the printer again and again the printer sends something the OS doesn't understand, etc, etc dragging the computer to a crawl.<br>
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webcrazy - try to see what is running at the time, shutdown all unnecessary programs and try that. Also, the questions Alt255 asked need to be answered... Especially, how do you log onto the net? Also it could be a resource conflict between the mouse and modem (if you are dialing up). Are you using any virus software? Very highly unlikely, but it could be a virus that is sending information out when it detects a connection to the internet... Although very unlikely and I don't know of any that would do that without any other indications. Make sure you have virus software and your DAT files are up to date and do a complete system scan.
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Alt255 - Where you saw this problem, was it a bidirectional printer and was it a common printer? I was thinking that it could possibly be in your case a printer trying to tell the OS its ready and sending it status reports too frequently or else it could possibly be that the OS is trying to understand what the printer is saying, but not getting it, so it queries the printer again and again the printer sends something the OS doesn't understand, etc, etc dragging the computer to a crawl.<br>
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webcrazy - try to see what is running at the time, shutdown all unnecessary programs and try that. Also, the questions Alt255 asked need to be answered... Especially, how do you log onto the net? Also it could be a resource conflict between the mouse and modem (if you are dialing up). Are you using any virus software? Very highly unlikely, but it could be a virus that is sending information out when it detects a connection to the internet... Although very unlikely and I don't know of any that would do that without any other indications. Make sure you have virus software and your DAT files are up to date and do a complete system scan.
I've twice in a year experienced the phenomena that the mouse stop working as soon as a modem-based TCP/IP-connection was established on a w95 system. <br>
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The solution (both times) was to remove the COM-port and the mouse (via right-buttom clicking at the My Computer icon), and then letting Windows find the hardware again at the next boot.
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The solution (both times) was to remove the COM-port and the mouse (via right-buttom clicking at the My Computer icon), and then letting Windows find the hardware again at the next boot.
That will happen if you have the mouse on COM1 and the modem on COM3 - they both share the same IRQ/Memory usually, so they conflict when you try to use both of them - and usually the modem wins.<br>
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What you need to do is setup COM3 on a differnet IRQ/IO setting than the default. Or else setup the modem on COM4, which is what I usually do. It seems that Windows changes IRQ/IO values occasionally, which is why you only see it sometimes. Make sure that if you do change the values, you leave it set to manual in the device manager within Windows.
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What you need to do is setup COM3 on a differnet IRQ/IO setting than the default. Or else setup the modem on COM4, which is what I usually do. It seems that Windows changes IRQ/IO values occasionally, which is why you only see it sometimes. Make sure that if you do change the values, you leave it set to manual in the device manager within Windows.
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