Vista mouse stutterring problem

Sagalout · 10 Nov 2007 at 01:23

Just built a new pc with vista home premium, Core 2 duo 3gb, Asus PK5 mobo 160GB IDE, Sata DVD - listed these specs as I think the problem has something to do with these.

Basically the system in geberal flies, but I get a wierd mouse stutterring problem, which seems to be connected to the hard drive activity. I think I've had this problem in the past, and it was becasue the hard drive was in PIO mode, but I cant find this anywhere in device manager (well, I can see the hard drive but not the controller). I can find the Sata channels which show the DVD writer in DMA4 mode. The mobo only has the one IDE socket, and thats where my primary drive is connected to, but its just not in the device manager. Any ideas how I access it to check if its in PIO mode? Is it likeley to be a mobo driver issue? I just installed the ones off the CD.

Any help much appreciated as its driving me mad!

Sagalout · 10 Nov 2007 at 15:56

Anyone?

whitecrook · 10 Nov 2007 at 18:06

The IDE controller should be listed in device manager. You could check that.

I had a similar problem , and in my research it turned out that if windows detects a bunch of errors on the drive, it can reduce the transfre mode back down to a slower rate to keep it working, but it doesn't move it back up, and rebooting doesn't fix it. You have to remove the hd and connect to an other controller / channel , or connect a nother device so windows resets backto DMA, then plug the hd back in and it should work, but if you get loads of errors on your drive, it may go back again.

Get hd tach or something to stress the drive a little, for more precise diagnostics.

Sagalout · 10 Nov 2007 at 21:27

Thats the wierd thing though - the IDE channel isnt in device manager at all - its just not there :/ The SATA ones are, and I can see the DVD drive, but no sign of the normal IDE.

flying grouse · 11 Nov 2007 at 09:30

you could try this hotfix from microsoft, it cured my mouse problems. >http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...65-40FF-468E-BBA2-3D1E1929C416&displaylang=en

NathanE · 11 Nov 2007 at 09:41

My mate had this problem on the same motherboard. Luckily I vaguely remembered him having the same problem before on his old PC a few years back - it was to do with his Nebula TV card.

Some cards are just very very fussy about which PCI port they are plugged into.

The solution for us was to simply remove the card altogether as there weren't any x64 drivers for it anyway. But if you need to keep whatever card it is that's causing it then try moving it to a different PCI slot.

The PCI slots are all subtley different in the way they share their IRQ with other ports on the motherboard.