Mouse slow when music is playing

[T.O.]

MOBO: New P5LD2--has on board RealTek audio.

Anytime music audio plays, (MP3, .wav, anything) --and it doesn't matter
what software is playing the audio, the mouse becomes almost impossible to
use. Very jerky in motion and non-responsive.

All the latest updates on XP.

Any ideas before I ditch it and put my old Sound Blaster card back in?

T.O. Galloway

 

[Daniel Mandic]

MOBO: New P5LD2--has on board RealTek audio.

Anytime music audio plays, (MP3, .wav, anything) --and it doesn't
matter what software is playing the audio, the mouse becomes almost
impossible to use. Very jerky in motion and non-responsive.

All the latest updates on XP.

Any ideas before I ditch it and put my old Sound Blaster card back in?

T.O. Galloway

Hi!


Do you have other cards installed? AGP-Card? PCI-Cards?





Best Regards,

Daniel Mandic

 

[Chris]

MOBO: New P5LD2--has on board RealTek audio.

Anytime music audio plays, (MP3, .wav, anything) --and it doesn't matter
what software is playing the audio, the mouse becomes almost impossible to
use. Very jerky in motion and non-responsive.

All the latest updates on XP.

Any ideas before I ditch it and put my old Sound Blaster card back in?

T.O. Galloway

Realtek audio is the shits!

I disabled it on my motherboard and put in an SB card. Problems solved!

 

[Paul]

MOBO: New P5LD2--has on board RealTek audio.

Anytime music audio plays, (MP3, .wav, anything) --and it doesn't matter
what software is playing the audio, the mouse becomes almost impossible to
use. Very jerky in motion and non-responsive.

All the latest updates on XP.

Any ideas before I ditch it and put my old Sound Blaster card back in?

T.O. Galloway

It may not be significant, but I notice in the IRQ table
in the manual, that one pair of USB ports shares an IRQ
with "Onboard HD audio". Is this a USB mouse ? Try plugging it
into a different port pair. (A PS/2 mouse would take quite
a different hardware path.)

Paul

 

[T Galloway]

Sorry, been out of town for a few days.
No, it's a PS/2 mouse, and now that I've had a chance to mess with
it.........
actually, the whole computer is hanging. Even in Safe Mode. With or without
audio playing.

Removed and reinstalled the ATI X700 video drivers. But I can't remove the
RealTek drivers. Even in Safe Mode I get the error # 0X80040707, "Dll
function call crashed: ISRT.VerGetFileVerison" and the uninstall terminates.

I'm having to click on an item 4 or 5 times to get it to respond to
anything.
Keyboard shortcuts seems to bring programs right up.

I've disabled parallel port in BIOS hoping to free up an IRQ-no help.

Why is it so sluggish and unresponsive now? How do I get these RealTek
drivers off?

Thanks all.
T.O. Galloway

 

[Paul]

Sorry, been out of town for a few days.
No, it's a PS/2 mouse, and now that I've had a chance to mess with
it.........
actually, the whole computer is hanging. Even in Safe Mode. With or without
audio playing.

Removed and reinstalled the ATI X700 video drivers. But I can't remove the
RealTek drivers. Even in Safe Mode I get the error # 0X80040707, "Dll
function call crashed: ISRT.VerGetFileVerison" and the uninstall terminates.

I'm having to click on an item 4 or 5 times to get it to respond to
anything.
Keyboard shortcuts seems to bring programs right up.

I've disabled parallel port in BIOS hoping to free up an IRQ-no help.

Why is it so sluggish and unresponsive now? How do I get these RealTek
drivers off?

Thanks all.
T.O. Galloway

If you have a spare hard drive, maybe you could do a fresh install
on there, and see if the hardware is still sluggish. If the system
is normal, then you know it is a software problem.

Googling on that error number, suggests Installshield is having a
problem with a file path. I tried looking at the Installshield.com
website, but they don't give out info to end users.

http://groups.google.ca/group/insta..._frm/thread/10b6934a0022cf8f/6a596e8e34ae1e58

Paul

 

[T.O.]

Thanks Paul.

Well, I figured out the mouse problem.
Since it was doing it in safe mode also, I figured it had to be some kind of
IRQ problem. Been so long since I've had to mess with them, I forgot more
than I remembered, but..........
Seems that the system wasn't happy with the old fax/modem I had stuck in the
top PCI slot. Pulled that out and all is well.
This board has the PCI ExpressX1 slots for things such as modems. Where
would I go to buy a fax/modem that fits in these slots?

This also allowed me to run through the add/remove panel and it looked like
the RealTek drivers uninstalled. But, it's still showing up in the
Add/Remove panel. When I try to uninstall now, it just says, "Error
extracting support files. System cannot find the file specified." So I
think they are 'gone, but not forgotten.' I've done some searching, but I
can't find the registry entry when I can remove this from the list. Anyone
know where that's at?

Thanks all.

T.O. Galloway

 

[Paul]

Thanks Paul.

Well, I figured out the mouse problem.
Since it was doing it in safe mode also, I figured it had to be some kind of
IRQ problem. Been so long since I've had to mess with them, I forgot more
than I remembered, but..........
Seems that the system wasn't happy with the old fax/modem I had stuck in the
top PCI slot. Pulled that out and all is well.
This board has the PCI ExpressX1 slots for things such as modems. Where
would I go to buy a fax/modem that fits in these slots?

This also allowed me to run through the add/remove panel and it looked like
the RealTek drivers uninstalled. But, it's still showing up in the
Add/Remove panel. When I try to uninstall now, it just says, "Error
extracting support files. System cannot find the file specified." So I
think they are 'gone, but not forgotten.' I've done some searching, but I
can't find the registry entry when I can remove this from the list. Anyone
know where that's at?

Thanks all.

T.O. Galloway

Did you try the modem in the other PCI slots ? Maybe you'll get
lucky

The rollout of PCI Express cards seems to be pretty slow. One
enabler would be cheap PCI-Express to normal PCI bridge chip,
but I doubt any product in the sub-$100 range could afford
such a solution. (On a positive note, I noticed Matrox is
now making a PCI Express x1 video card. Which just might
allow people building servers with desktop motherboards,
to put their RAID controller in the video card slot, and
use one of those x1 slots for the video.)

Some other solutions might be - a modem device that plugs into
USB or an old fashioned USR Courier plugged into a COM port.
The Courier is a Cadillac solution - at this price, you'd
think they would throw in a serial cable:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16825104135

The menu here makes searching for device types pretty easy:

http://www.newegg.com/ProductSort/SubCategory.asp?SubCategory=18

Paul