[Sheflug] Power fluctuations...

[Craig Andrews <nospam [at] fishbot.free-online.co.uk>]

Hi all,

I have been suffering for a while with a rather annoying problem. Well,
two actually.

First, whenever the hard drive gets a good thrashing (any drive, in fact,
out of 3) the mouse cursor takes on a life of it's own. It can be annoying
in Gimp to have a screen-long line just because of a flushed buffer! I
think this is (partly) to do with either a) the PS/2 interface, or b) the
IMPS/2 driver. Note that ALL IMPS/2 mice do the same thing. Not tried any
other protocols.

Second, my RivaTNT2 seems to lock up whenever it has a lot to think
about. Particularly involving alpha blending and the like. I thought that
this was to do with the alpha glx driver I have, but the release Windoze
driver does it too. It doesn't do it straight away, mind. It waits. In
Tux- A quest for herring, it only locks when I press Space for the menu,
and the transparent text appears. In NFS4 in Windows, it seems to be when
water or lens flare is present.

What I put both these down to is a lack of power. In my machine, I have:

K6-2/500 w/ 96Mb EDO Ram
NVidia RivaTNT2 32Mb AGP 2x
SB Awe 64
Modem (internal)
CD-Rom and Floppy
15, 8.4 and 3.2 Gb Hard disk drives
Genius optical mouse (IMPS/2 driver)
200W (old, cheap) PSU

What does anyone reckon to my theory, before I splash out on a more
powerful PSU? (The old one cost 16 quid, with a case!)

Craig Andrews
craig@fishbot.free-online.co.uk

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