Keyboard and mouse freeze up windows xp

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Forums Software Windows Legacy. JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. Previous Next Sort by votes. Nov 22, 1 0 18, 0. Not a virus this started before first log on to the net. Windows fully updated included hardware check. The application and system log show nothing. I turned off a special tweak in win 98 to use all memory before the swap file and the freeze went away for about 5 days now its back any ideas?

Does it happen from a cold-start direct into XP? Or only after you were in W98 and rebooted into XP? The tweak is now turned off and the freezing is reduced greatly but still happens on a rare occassion. It must have had an effect on the bios indirectly. This is a selected tweak from U. Interface a free download tool that is usually quite good, but I can,t discribe how it actually worked.

But it is now off. Thanks Mozart from Canada. Please note that win 98 on the dual boot is still perfect. What I noticed is strange is that if you open the task manager and let it run minimized the system won,t freeze. I tried seeing what a freezse would show in task manager What do you think of this?. Or get the latest Intellipoint drivers, but they ARE bloatware!

I have also tried another video card in the same PCI slot and no change. I am thinking that the problem is narrowed down to either the power supply or the motherboard, unless Windows XP itself is the problem. My questions are if Windows XP could be the problem and any way to check it for corruption or updating the service pack to fix the problem if the new power supply does not work?

Any tips on cheaply testing the mother board? I am thinking of junking the thing, if I have to go to a new "old" Intel motherboard, and wondering if I made a poor decision to try and fix a freezing PC, even though I am geekily curious to find what the problem is. I changed the power supply and I thought it fixed the problem, however, it was not as straight forward or immediate as I hoped.

First, the system booted up, and the cursor was frozen immediately, couldn't even login. As I was trying to decide what to try next, the screen seemed to blink and the USB mouse stared working, but it also gave the indication that new hardware was added. Long story short, I was never able to get to the cmd mode before freezing, and then it gave an error that Windows could not boot because a Windows system file was missing or corrupt. However, I still suspect the motherboard since it is freezing earlier than ever, even before Windows boots.

I think the mother board problems may have caused the Windows system file corruption, if that is possible, but still trying to fix the boot up problem. I tried using the default bios settings and that helped a lot, even clearing up the Windows system error, but still have the cursor freeze about minutes after boot up. What directory do you run it from? I realized I do have a problem with the new GB drive slave not getting fully recognized, so I guess this motherboard only support up to GBs like my old Gateway.

I will try creating logical drives, or finding a cheap adapter card like I did for the Gateway, but freeze started before this drive was added.