Erratic Mouse/Choppy Sound

[David Kaff]

Hi All,

I've been having a problem lately regarding my wired, optical mouse.
Whenever I move it it seems to lag some and then, if I happen to be
listening to music while moving the mouse it starts to stutter. Here
is some info on my system:

XP Athlon 2500 CPU overclocked to 3200
MSI KT6 Delta Motherboard
1 Gig RAM
NVidia FX5600 256 Mb. Graphics card
MadDog Dominator Sound Card


I'm running XP Pro with all drivers recently updated.

Thanks in advance for any help.

David

 

[Dave C.]

Hi All,

I've been having a problem lately regarding my wired, optical mouse.
Whenever I move it it seems to lag some and then, if I happen to be
listening to music while moving the mouse it starts to stutter. Here
is some info on my system:

XP Athlon 2500 CPU overclocked to 3200
MSI KT6 Delta Motherboard
1 Gig RAM
NVidia FX5600 256 Mb. Graphics card
MadDog Dominator Sound Card


I'm running XP Pro with all drivers recently updated.

Thanks in advance for any help.

David

Go to start, control panel, system, hardware, device manager. Look for
conflicts (the exclamation mark). If any are found, uninstall the
conflicting components and reboot so that Windows can try to reinstall those
components. If no exclamation marks (no conflicts showing) . . .

While still in device manager, do a View, Resources by type. Expand the IRQ
tree so you can see what is sharing what. PRINT THIS. While you are in
there, see if your mouse is running off of something that is sharing an IRQ
with your sound card. (likely) For example, in my system, the sound card
is sharing an IRQ with my *USB CONTROLLER*. It works fine that way, and it
SHOULD work fine that way, but some components don't play nice with each
other.

If you find the mouse is running off a resource that is being shared with
your sound card, the simplest fix might be to shut down the computer, unplug
it, and then move the sound card to a different PCI slot. When you restart
windows, hopefully the sound card will be given different IRQ. To verify,
use the list that I suggested you print earlier. -Dave

 

[DTK]

Hi Dave,

I haven't tried your suggestions yet but I'm going to. I just wanted
to say thanks for the input. I'll let you know what happens.

David