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[reddog4629]

Have a Dell Pee2-400,256MB,2-20GB Raid 0,8MB video.
W'98SE, IE 5.0.
The mouse jerks and slow to respond. Web pages/scroll slow and jerky. Acts like there's a lot of stuff running but the only thing running is Zone Alarm. It's a Kingston roller ball mouse with latest drivers. Any ideas?

[Mntsnow]

since it is a "ball" mouse usually the main culprut is dirty rollers the ball rubs against. the other thing to check would be the sampling rate setting for your mouse.

[reddog4629]

I even tried another mouse-same jerky response when only a couple of windows open. Dialed the video card down to 16 bit color and lowered the resolution-no help. More ideas?

[Mntsnow]

Hmmm What motherboard? and this is on ps/2 interface correct?

[jadison]

I get the same thing with my MSFT Intellimouse. I'm using WinME, 392MB RAM, MSI K7T 6330 mobo.

I've only had it for about 5 months! I'm wondering if the laser is out of allignment.

Any help is appreciated

-=jd=-

[reddog4629]

When I get to that machine again I will boot to safe mode a see if it changes. Also I will look for IRQ conflicts. Anything else to check?

[reddog4629]

Even jerky/slow in safe mode. Any more ideas?

[hawkeye177]

What about memory? That can cause it.

[Axel]

might be a flaw in the PS2 port the mouse plugs in to -

few more questions -

Is the motherboard an AT factor board and the PS2 mouse connector is cabled through an expansion slot? If so - have you unpluged and then reseated the cable on the motherboard?

Have you gone to the track-ball vendor web-site and downloaded an updated driver for the track-ball? You make no mention of removing the track ball driver installed when you put in the mouse - so it might be a bad/corrupted track-ball driver.

Leaving the plain ole mouse on the system - go into the device manager and remove the mouse completely - then reboot the machine manually - the PnP system should auto-detect the mouse and put the standard MS driver in for you - if it's a bad or corrupt driver - that should stop the jerking....

If that worked - go download and execute the install of the track-ball driver you downloaded off the manufacturer web site -

Have you run any diagnostics on the RAM? Bad RAM could possibly be doing this -

Have you run scandisk on your hard drive lately? Could be your system is skipping when the swap file trips across a bad sector on the hard drives. Extremely unlikely - but possible.

Noticed you are running RAID zero - have you checked for a BIOS upgrade for your RAID card eeprom?

Have you checked for a BIOS upgrade for the motherboard EEPROM?

Have you checked for viruses on your system after upgrading your definitions? Do this before touching the BIOS on either card -

How full is the hard drive - delete tmp files, delete temp internet files - uninstall any unwanted programs through control panel add/remove - then defrag the system - reboot -

That's all that comes to mind right off -

[Ritalin Kid]

DO you have a Winmodem?? I had the same problem with my mouse on a Soyo 5hem+ and it was mostly due to the fact that my modem was pulling so much from the CPU.