I have two problems which seem to want to hang on even after reformating the hard drive and reinstalling win98se. The sound breaks up with apparent spaces inserted. The mouse response is intermittent and jerky. I seems to be associated with the hard drive activity as when it is at its worse the hard drive is showing some activity.

After everything settles down, with the hard drive seemingly at rest, the mouse response is more normal. Sound is still broken when activity resumes.

The system is a P2 300mhz Micron with 256k memory and a 8 gig hard drive.

Thanks very much for your input.

Bob Howery

ok, im just wondering, but is it onboard sound? did you check all to make sure all the pins are striaght and not bent or missing? As for the sound, what type of sound card do you have? If you installed a new sound card, yuo might want to install the driver. It could also be possible that the motherboard is malfunctioning at the female ends of the sound and mouse ports. Also, do you have a PS/2 or a Serial mouse

-jake-

Originally Posted by jakeyeager

ok, im just wondering, but is it onboard sound? did you check all to make sure all the pins are striaght and not bent or missing? As for the sound, what type of sound card do you have? If you installed a new sound card, yuo might want to install the driver. It could also be possible that the motherboard is malfunctioning at the female ends of the sound and mouse ports. Also, do you have a PS/2 or a Serial mouse

-jake-

Jake:
Ive located the source of both probems. They were being caused by McAfee a/v program file scan. It can be fixed by going to McAfee, right click McAfee, seclect virus scan and options then advanced and select program files and documents only. Audio and mouse ops. now normal. This would probably not be necessary on a newer and faster computer bt this one now works O.K.

So if anyone asks, you can run a 300mhz P2 computer on a high speed dsl wireless network with a little speed sacrafice in performance.

Thanks very much for your help, I really appreciate it.

Bob Howery

Thanks for the update Bob

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