I too have a pentium 75 and my mouse does the same thing but it only stalls
when windows is swapping ram files which it seems to do when ever it sees a
need for more open ram space needed for what ever application is being
loaded. Being that the mouse is on a program of it's own the swap file
activity temporally disables the mouse while the swap is in progress. The
reason I have noticed this particular event is my swap file is on my D drive
while my other windows apps are on the C drive to allow for quicker program
access
Bob,
From Twain Harte, Calif. In the Sierra mountians
-----Original Message-----
From: Brad Britton <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sunday, February 08, 1998 7:12 PM
Subject: using mouse while downloading


>When my pc is downloading a page from the internet, I find that
>when I
>try to do something in the background that involves the mouse
>(click on
>a file to request it, try to paste info into a file,ect.) I most
>often
>have to click several times before the clicks do anything.I only
>began
>noticing this over the past month or two, but it could be that it
>was
>always like this. (Pentium 75, 32Meg RAM).
> I suspect that this might be happening because I have the modem
>set up
>as COM 2, which I think has a higher priority IRQ than COM 1. The
>mouse
>will work after several clicks, even while the page is being
>downloaded.
>Is this because I happen to click the mouse when the serial port
>buffer
>is empty? I guess having a PS2 mouse would solve this, since the
>IRQ is
>at a higher priority level, but I don't have a PS2 port. If I'm
>right
>about this so far, I guess if I moved the modem to COM1 and the
>mouse to
>COM2 this might fix this annoyance. Also, I don't understand why
>after I
>click the mouse, I can't just wait for the result, instead of
>having to
>keep on clicking the mouse. If an interrupt isn't serviced right
>away,
>does it just disappear? Can someone please comment on any of
>this? I don't
>know how much, if any, of what I have written here is accurate.
>Brad Britton
>>


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