Scrolling

[Guest]

Reposted from the wrong group:

Using the scroll wheel or the side bar will suck the life out of my system.
If I just touch the wheel the CPU usage goes to 100%.

This results in a jumping juddering scrolling action that seems to take
forever and goes past where I'm reading.

Thanks for any help.

 

[Bob I]

Do you have the correct video driver installed for your system? You can
download it from the manufacturers web site.

 

[Malke]

Reposted from the wrong group:

Using the scroll wheel or the side bar will suck the life out of my
system. If I just touch the wheel the CPU usage goes to 100%.

This results in a jumping juddering scrolling action that seems to take
forever and goes past where I'm reading.

Thanks for any help.

Try updating your video drivers. Never get drivers from Windows Update. Get
them from:

1. The device mftr.'s website; OR
2. The motherboard mftr.'s website if hardware is onboard; OR
3. The OEM's website for your specific machine if you have an OEM computer
(HP, Dell, Sony, etc.).

Read the installation instructions on the website where you get the drivers.

To find out what hardware is in your computer:

1. Read any documentation you got when you bought the computer.
2. If the computer is OEM, go to the OEM's website for your specific model
machine and look at the specs (you'll be there to get the drivers anyway)
3. Download, install and run a free system inventory program like Belarc
Advisor. The older Aida32 is good for this, too.

http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html - Belarc Advisor
http://www.aumha.org/free.htm - Aida32 (hosted on Jim Eshelman's site)

Aside from that, we don't have enough information about your computer to
give you focused help. The First Question Of Troubleshooting: what changed
between the time things worked and the time they didn't?

If you want more help, please go to this link to see what details you need
to include in your next post:

http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm

Malke

 

[Weatherlawyer]

Weatherlawyer wrote:

Try updating your video drivers. Never get drivers from Windows Update. Get
them from:

1. The device mftr.'s website; OR
2. The motherboard mftr.'s website if hardware is onboard; OR
3. The OEM's website for your specific machine if you have an OEM computer
(HP, Dell, Sony, etc.).

Aside from that, we don't have enough information about your computer to
give you focused help. The First Question Of Troubleshooting: what changed
between the time things worked and the time they didn't?

Quite right.

nVidia drivers were removed some time back maybe that was about the
same time. I am suprised that it has affected the mouse and the scroll
bar on the side of web pages and programme so seriously.

Windows XP Home Edition (build 2600)
2.20 gigahertz AMD Athlon XP
128 kilobyte primary memory cache
512 kilobyte secondary memory cache
82.34 Gigabytes 76.46 Gigabytes Free
Gigabyte GA-7VT600 Motherboard
Bus Clock: 200 megahertz
BIOS: Award Software
1024 MB Memory

 

[Malke]

Quite right.

nVidia drivers were removed some time back maybe that was about the
same time. I am suprised that it has affected the mouse and the scroll
bar on the side of web pages and programme so seriously.

Windows XP Home Edition (build 2600)
2.20 gigahertz AMD Athlon XP
128 kilobyte primary memory cache
512 kilobyte secondary memory cache
82.34 Gigabytes 76.46 Gigabytes Free
Gigabyte GA-7VT600 Motherboard
Bus Clock: 200 megahertz
BIOS: Award Software
1024 MB Memory

Yes, the issues with the mouse and scroll are directly related to the video
drivers. Update your video drivers per my last post, getting them from
nNvidia if you installed the card yourself or from the OEM's website if you
have something like a Dell, HP, etc.

I don't know why "nVidia drivers were removed" but if installing updated
drivers doesn't help then your card is probably failing.

Malke

 

[HeyBub]

Reposted from the wrong group:

Using the scroll wheel or the side bar will suck the life out of my
system. If I just touch the wheel the CPU usage goes to 100%.

This results in a jumping juddering scrolling action that seems to
take forever and goes past where I'm reading.

Thanks for any help.

Optical mouse?

Try this: bang the mouse down on the pad. If all that foolishness stops, the
optical mouse is dirty.

 

[Guest]

Optical mouse?

No just a cheapo USb wheel and two buttons.

Try this: bang the mouse down on the pad. If all that foolishness stops, the
optical mouse is dirty.

It is fairly clean if a little tired.

Thanks to all for the replies BTW.

About to go to Gigabyte for the updates. Windows seems to have refused to
install updates on this set. I reinstalled the OS about a month back I
thought I was up to date with them but it seems not???

Maybe part of the glitch. I need coffee or sleep of slapping or something.

 

[Guest]

About to go to Gigabyte for the updates. Windows seems to have refused to
install updates on this set. I reinstalled the OS about a month back I
thought I was up to date with them but it seems not???

That has sorted it. Thanks all for the heads up.