Disapperaing mouse cursor...?

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Mabrito

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On my friends computer, he says his mouse cursor peridocically disappears. Like at one moment it can be there for about 5 minutes, then it may disappear for about 20 secs to a couple minutes. It goes on and off. He switched mice and still gets the same problem, so it cant be a mouse problem. He ran some adware and virus scans and gets nothing. He has about 57 processes running, but ever since I put that computer together for him, he always had about 55-60 process's running at the same time. Im kinda thinking its a hardware problem, because if its software, wouldnt the mouse cursor just constantly stay disappeared, and not disappear for a moment and come back, them maybe disappear again 5 minutes later. Now im not ruling out a software problem, but to me it seems more hardware. Are there any test we can run on the mobo? If it is a software problem, you know anything that can causing it?

His computer has the following parts:
Pentium 4 530 processor
Asus P5GPL, or something very very similar to that, but im 99% sure that is it
512mb of Kingstom Dual Channel ram, not overclocking ram, but the value ram they have
XFX 6600GT
ENERMAX EG425P-VE SFMA 2.0 ATX12V 420W
Windows XP Home
 
I'm thinking it's software, based on the simple logic that if it was hardware, how could it make windows make the actual cursor disappear? I don't think that's possible. Also, I think a hardware problem would be more along the lines of erratic mouse movement, or lack of movement, but not a cursor disappearing.

As he tried running Windows in safe mode for a while to see if the problem disappears?

I just did a quick google search to get an idea of what it could possibly be. It might be a problem with his video drivers. Have him try updating them, and see if that changes anything. Also, did this problem always occur, or is it something that just started to happen recently? Did he install anything new, or update any programs?
 
Its a software problem. Either Windows or another program making the cursor disappear, or appear to anyway. 55-60 processes doesn't sound good, what is he running? I would be doing a virus/spyware check on the machine as well, as something nasty may be making the cursor disappear. Does it come back in the same spot, or does it re-appear elsehwere?
 
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