I think what you are experiencing here is a irq conflict. I experienced
this when my mouse and modem were sharing back when I was using Win3.x.

You may want to look into this via the system section of you os

Frank Suszka

David Gillett wrote:

> On 31 Jul 98 at 0:52, Mark and Judith Walter wrote:
>
> >   I just installed a PCI Aopen 56.6 modem ... the mouse cursor
> > will stop or slow up for a second or 2 (utilizing too much CPU
> > power?), after that it seem to work ok.
>
>   I cannot seem to find information about such a modem from Aopen.
> However, several inexpensive brands of 56K PCI modems appear to be
> "WinModems" (that may be a USR trademark), which means that they rely
> on a driver and the PC's CPU to do much of the work.  This *might* be
> what you're seeing.
>
> David G
>