Had similar problem. Would freeze when pointer in motion. It was a problem with the video card. My Hercules Thriller will do this when a custom pointer is used. Using the standard pointer fixed it. (go to contrl panel/mouse) On Tue, 19 Sep 2000 16:19:34 -0400, Lewis C Emerson wrote: >I have muddled along for some time with a computer problem that has >recently become very, very severe. The machine locks up in the middle of >doing something, usually reading e-mail, and requires rebooting to get >functioning again. It seems to always happen when I'm just scrolling >down to see portions of the e-mail below the bottom border. About half >the time a Cntrl-Alt-Del will reboot, but also, half the time requires >turning the machine completely, pause for ten seconds or so, then turning >back on. In both cases I see the error message that the machine was not >shut down properly and requires that I run SCAN DISK - which always find >a bunch of unused bytes that I just delete. The number of bytes are >usually 98,304, but not always. (For what that's worth that number is >exactly 3 times 2 raised to the 15th power) > >Someone has suggested that I look at the devices connected to my system >(A Pentium 166/MMX, processor running W-95, 32 MB RAM, one 3-1/2" floppy, >one HD with two partitions, a ZIP drive, scanner, etc.) When I looked at >SETTINGS-CONTROL PANEL-SYSTEM-DEVICE MANAGER I see an unusual entry. >Under Hard Disk Controller when I click on the "Plus Sign" in the box I >see the following: > > Intel 82371AB PCI Bus Master Controllers > Primary Bus Master IDE Controller > Secondary Bus Master IDE Controller > Standard IDE/ESDI Hard Disk Controller > Standard IDE?ESDI Hard Disk Controller > >I don't understand why I have two entries for the Standard IDE/ESDI >Controller. By the way, at times I have seen two of many other devices, >like the modem, the floppy, etc. > >I have run the standard things - ie. SCAN DISK, DEFRAG, etc. (Many >times, in fact) Zilch. > >Have also run SAFE MODE (many times) and have installed W95VXD.EXE. >Again zilch. > >One other thing that may possible bear on this - because it's something >relatively new. When I click on the mail server icon (Juno on the >desktop) a window-like shade drops over the icon - and just after that >another one drops over the "My Computer" icon. Interesting, what? > >One final clue - if I can call it that - the machine now is running at >about one tenth the speed at which it used to run. > >Comments, suggestions, ideas, etc. > >Lewis Emerson > > PCBUILD's List Owner's: > Bob Wright<[log in to unmask]> > Drew Dunn<[log in to unmask]> Visit our website regularly for FAQs, articles, how-to's, tech tips and much more http://nospin.com - http://nospin.org