Hello,

I'm setting up a Windows XP SP3 PC with all patches. I have a 3 GHz PC with
2 GIGs of RAM. I've set up quite a few PCs from scratch before but this is
the first time I've screwed up whatever I messed up on this PC. It is not
part of a domain. I just set it up so it has no drives mapped to anything
else. I have updated all my drivers for my Gigabyte GA-X48T-DQ6
motherboard. I have also updated the BIOS.

When I click on My Computer on my desktop - it opens a blank windows - about
5-10 seconds later it lists my drives but the mouse moves spastically as you
try and click on something. About 20 seconds later you can actually move
the mouse - if you click on the C drive, it moves just fine once you are
in - but as soon as you go back to your entire computer it moves spastically
everywhere. I can do the same thing for the other drive letters.

If I go start run C: it goes right into my C Drive instantly - no spastic
movement whatsoever - same for my other drives.

PS I tried safe mode with networking and still have the same issue.

"boe" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:400267AD-F457-4880-B7D5-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hello,
>
> I'm setting up a Windows XP SP3 PC with all patches. I have a 3 GHz PC
> with 2 GIGs of RAM. I've set up quite a few PCs from scratch before but
> this is the first time I've screwed up whatever I messed up on this PC.
> It is not part of a domain. I just set it up so it has no drives mapped
> to anything else. I have updated all my drivers for my Gigabyte
> GA-X48T-DQ6 motherboard. I have also updated the BIOS.
>
> When I click on My Computer on my desktop - it opens a blank windows -
> about 5-10 seconds later it lists my drives but the mouse moves
> spastically as you try and click on something. About 20 seconds later
> you can actually move the mouse - if you click on the C drive, it moves
> just fine once you are in - but as soon as you go back to your entire
> computer it moves spastically everywhere. I can do the same thing for
> the other drive letters.
>
> If I go start run C: it goes right into my C Drive instantly - no spastic
> movement whatsoever - same for my other drives.

Figured it out - there are 2 purple raid SATA controllers on the
motherboard - you can connect hard drives no issue but if you plug in
optical drives the issue occurs.

"boe" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:400267AD-F457-4880-B7D5-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hello,
>
> I'm setting up a Windows XP SP3 PC with all patches. I have a 3 GHz PC
> with 2 GIGs of RAM. I've set up quite a few PCs from scratch before but
> this is the first time I've screwed up whatever I messed up on this PC.
> It is not part of a domain. I just set it up so it has no drives mapped
> to anything else. I have updated all my drivers for my Gigabyte
> GA-X48T-DQ6 motherboard. I have also updated the BIOS.
>
> When I click on My Computer on my desktop - it opens a blank windows -
> about 5-10 seconds later it lists my drives but the mouse moves
> spastically as you try and click on something. About 20 seconds later
> you can actually move the mouse - if you click on the C drive, it moves
> just fine once you are in - but as soon as you go back to your entire
> computer it moves spastically everywhere. I can do the same thing for
> the other drive letters.
>
> If I go start run C: it goes right into my C Drive instantly - no spastic
> movement whatsoever - same for my other drives.