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Constant freezing

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pr0be

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I'm fixing a computer for someone and can't figure out this one problem. Every seemingly random amount of seconds (from 5 to 15) the mouse will completely freeze up. I tried running a CPU usage monitor but it didnt show any spikes in usage. I guess it's not actually the mouse freezing, but the whole system taking a break, but the mouse movement makes it the most obvious.

I tried the basics:
Virus scan - found some trojan and removed it.
Ad-ware scan - found tons of random crap (bonzi buddy, gator, etc.) It's all gone now.
Spybot scan - found some more adware and removed it.

Restarted. STILL DOES IT. :(

Kill all processes except explorer/systray - Still does it.

I started updating various drivers (I had a feeling the SB Live Value! might be causing it). Nothing. The worst part is that sometimes after restarting everything seems normal. Then on the next boot its back to the freezing.

I found a patch that sort of mentions the freezing and it being related to the sound drivers, but it didn't help at all. Knowledge base article here .

The specs of the computer (it's an old Gateway Performance 600)
Windows 98 SE
PIII 600mhz(Coppermine)
128MB SDRAM (100mhz)
Intel (Tabor3) BX Motherboard R3
U.S. Robotics 56K Voice WinModem R1 (Fullerton)
IBM 7200-RPM 20.4-GB Ultra ATA/66 Hard Disk Drive
Toshiba 12X/40X DVD-ROM Drive
Philips 4X/4X/24X CD-R/RW Rev. 1
16mb Voodoo3 3000G
200-Watt PS

The computer also has Roxio GoBack running which makes running stuff off a floppy difficult as it doesn't detect the partitions.

If anyone has ANY suggestions, please help.
 
corrupted driver for mouse maybe? not sure. try that. check your events in the Admin tools, to see if any error are in there that you can see that is causing it.
 
It's windows 98se, so as far as i know there is no Event Viewer.

Also, like i said i don't really think its just the mouse stopping. If theres a video playing, for example, it stops every couple of seconds and the sound keeps repeating.
 
Does anyway know of a way to disable the GoBack crap so the partitions are recognized normally?
 
I reinstalled Windows and it's still happening.

I'm going to put another 128MB of ram in there and was wondering what kind of hardware problem could be causing this.

Anyone have any ideas?
 
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