I have also seen a bad keyboard cause this - has something to do with a
buffer overrun.  Try swapping in another keyboard if you have one and see if
the problem goes away.

Eric Wertman

On Tuesday 31 July 2001 11:40 am, you wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Jul 2001 09:42:21 -0500
>
>  Jim Austin <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Does anyone know what causes what I call "mad mouse
> > disease," in which it looks like some maniac has grabbed
> >the mouse and is rapidly doing things at random?
>
> I've seen two things cause this.
>
> First, if your display card has been assigned an interrupt
> and that interrupt is shared with another device.  I've had
> to manually reassign the display card's IRQ either manually
> (if possible) or by shuffling cards in the PCI slots.
>
> Another is a corrupt display driver.  Many of the "mouse"
> problems can be caused by bad display drivers.  Try
> re-installing the newest display driver for your card.

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