Re: [Sheflug] Power fluctuations...

[Will Newton <nospam [at] misconception.org.uk>]

On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Craig Andrews wrote:

> 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.

I haven't noticed this with my Microsoft(TM) IntelliMouse(TM).

> 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.

That's a wierd one. Are there any firmware updates available for the card?

> 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!)

Could be. The other prime suspects for me are RAM or the mobo.


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