Diagnose this problem. Help!

[ycchan]

I can't figure out whats causing the problem.

The mouse would freeze for 10-20sec then goes back to normal again. This usually happens when I'm on Youtube but I'm thinking its just a coincidence. The speakers would buzz like the system hanged. Everything then back to normal again.

I tried changing to different USB ports for the mouse but no dice.

Any ideas what could be wrong?

I'm running XP Pro SP2.

 

[vsrdan]

Same thing happens to me with a wireless laser mouse. I guess this is the "mouseware" acting. Do you have non-XP mouseware controlling your mouse?

 

[ycchan]

I don't have any software installed for the mouse. Its PnP

 

[ycchan]

bump

 

[fellows]

Is this a wireless or wired mouse?

 

[ycchan]

Wired. Logitech G1

Same thing happened to my old Microsoft Intellimouse.

 

[BinarySynapse]

Could be Flashplayer? I know it was giving me hell with [H] at first then started moving to more and more sites with flash ads or content (YouTube especially).

 

[ycchan]

It happened again but this time I wasn't using the browser at all so its not flash related.

 

[BinarySynapse]

It happened again but this time I wasn't using the browser at all so its not flash related.

Is it just the cursor that freezes, or the whole computer?

 

[ycchan]

Whole computer freezes.

 

[digital_exhaust]

Grab Process Explorer and see what's really going on... sounds like you've got something that's running in the background that's hanging things up...

 

[ycchan]

Ran process explorer and couldn't find anything that seems malicious or unknown.

 

[BinarySynapse]

Make sure you have all the latest dirivers for your hardware installed.


I seem to remember an old eMachines that I was working on that did this. I ended up having to disable the onboard NIC in the BIOS and one of the USB root hubs in Device Manager for it to go away.