technical problem, mouse lag?

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phrowzen

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Hey,

To start off, I had an ASUS P4PE, with a 9700 PRO etc, I think I had about everything thats in my sig. No problems. Moved to a Gigabyte GA-SINXP1394 board (only thing that changed). No problems. Switched to a P4 2.6C and an ASUS P4P800. No problems for about 3-4 weeks. About 4 days ago I came home from work, I noticed my user session in Windows XP to be logged out. Strange, I never log out, i just hit switch user. I checked my uptime just to make sure that it hadn't rebooted on me, which it didnt.

Anyways, that was fine, didn't noticed much, i think i just went to bed then. Woke up, screwed around in windows doing some stuff, started noticing I was getting mouse lag. Sometimes it wasn't noticable at all, i'd whirl my mouse for 1-2 mins and wouldnt see it freeze momentarily once, but then itd start. Anyways, annoyed, i ran an online virus checker, spyware thing, no viruses -- cleaning out a few spyware things (no active processes though). This didn't do anything.

It's not mouse lag alone though. Its just momentary freezing on my pc. Im an extremely fast typist and i notice, while typing this now actually, that i can see when its freezing because my text has to catch up on me.

Also, I went to the washroom today, and when I came back all three leds were on, on my keyboard (scroll, num, and caps) which were not turned on by me. I could move around my mouse but if I clicked on something it did not respond in any way. I restarted my PC, the leds stayed on on my keyboard, and nothing came up. I powered off, and it returned to semi-normal (the momentary freezing, of course).

Also, my games had rebooted once or twice on me.

Anyways, so i formatted my pc about an hour ago, just loaded on irc now, and vid card/monitor drivers, i just hit the system button under performance and maitenance to see which drivers i needed to install, and again i start to notice this mouse lag. WTF?!?!?!

What am I dealing with here? My ram sticks are at 2-3-3-8 DDR 400 dual channel, which I could run up to like DDR434 2-3-3-7 or so on my gigabyte board. So I can't see that being a problem.

But this just started happening like this past 4 days, what has went wrong? Again I don't see how it could be software, as i just formatted. Matter of fact, could be coincidence, but it seems worse after format.

Is this the famous stuttering bug that was noticed by 9700 pro's when it was first released? I never had any symptoms of it, unless this is what I have now. But would that explain my weird keyboard led thing, game crashing once or twice, etc?

Any and ALL help is appreciated,

Thanks,
phrowzen
 
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phrowzen

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Updated to latest bios. Was looking at a review, just scrolling down and then after about 20 minutes uptime it started again.... >=(

Any ideas, someone?

EDIT: By the way, CPU usage seems to be high during the momentary freezing period
 
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phrowzen

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Just removed my audigy2 and hauppauge nexus from my machine. Unplugged my second hard drive and also removed my tornado from my slk-900 to dust out the cpu area and rest of pc (been a while).

Anyways, again about 20 minutes later, getting the computer lag. Really running out of ideas guys.

Is my motherboard at fault?

phrowzen
 
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pyrojunkie

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I would suspect a bad mouse. Check its cable for any bad kinks or cuts. When a mouse's connection goes sour, the computer will lock for a second as it reestablishs the mouse connection. I have seen this mostly happen on bad USB mice, but I imagine it can happen with a PS/2 also. The brief lockup is plug'n'play reconnecting the mouse.
 
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straubs

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When you say you "upgraded" the motherboard, do you mean that you just turned off your computer, swapped motherboards, and then turned it on again?

If so, that would be your problem.

You can't just swap a motherboard w/o reinstalling windows, at least when the chipset is entirely different. Well, you can, but unless you do some major hacks, you'll usually end up with problems like yours. See, windows decides what to install based on your hardware, and the motherboard chipset is something that is decided in the pre-setup environment when you first install windows. It's not like replacing a video card, where all you do is install a driver.

This is exactly the reason that when businesses image multiple computers with a program like Norton Ghost, they have to create a different image for each hardware configuration. Again, there are ways around this, such as using Microsoft's sysprep to adjust the system for the hardware, before windows boots for the first time.

 
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pyrojunkie

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Originally posted by: straubs
When you say you "upgraded" the motherboard, do you mean that you just turned off your computer, swapped motherboards, and then turned it on again?

If so, that would be your problem.

You can't just swap a motherboard w/o reinstalling windows, at least when the chipset is entirely different. Well, you can, but unless you do some major hacks, you'll usually end up with problems like yours. See, windows decides what to install based on your hardware, and the motherboard chipset is something that is decided in the pre-setup environment when you first install windows. It's not like replacing a video card, where all you do is install a driver.

This is exactly the reason that when businesses image multiple computers with a program like Norton Ghost, they have to create a different image for each hardware configuration. Again, there are ways around this, such as using Microsoft's sysprep to adjust the system for the hardware, before windows boots for the first time.
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He may have done this at first, but if you read later in his post, he has formatted already. This problem is stumping me
 
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phrowzen

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hey

memory should be fine, memtest86'd it for 8 hours or so, no problems for the memory :(

swapped video card, updated bios, removed all pci devices, formatted, used brand new raptor 36GB s-ata hard drive. ive swapped about every component i can, except motherboard and cpu. however i believe i prime95'd the cpu for 8 hours also, so it should be fine, i think its the board.

i brought it in to the store today, gonna be bout 3 business days til they get back to me, and since its past the 30 days (45 days or something), they gotta RMA it and then i gotta wait for the return :(

phrowzen
 
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