jon.blcksnds

ok.. that second reply from you sounds more promising, il look into that, cheers

I wouldn't call it clicking, it's more like a hiccup and it doesn't feel like a HDD failing, it's been this way on and off for a while now.

Hi, I actually asked this before a couple of months back, but it seemed to stop after I stopped plugging in my external hardrive in, but the problem has come back.. I've been on to where I got my computer from who have really been no help and its out of guarantee now. I have a hard time explaining the problem clearly and I'm just totally stumped and annoyed! Basically what will happen is every 5 seconds the mouse cursor will stick for a second and jerk, then be fine for 5 seconds.. if im listening to music or playing a video file, then there will be a hiccup in place of say the cursor moving, so the video file will stick or the sound will jump.. I know it's not a problem with the memory as I've replaced that and still no change and I know it's not just aproblem with the mouse because it does it with the sound and video and so vice verse. I've checked the processes and performance as someone said it might show a spike when it occurs, but no, nothing I can see here either. Sometimes I'll turn the machine on and itll be fine, if I plug something in (external, usb stick or cd) then it'll start again but lately it's doing it everytime I turn the machine on.. Yep, I could take it to a repair place, but that's hassle and I'd personally like to know what it is that is happening so maybe I can fix it myself. Anyone.. please help?!!? Before I break something hehe :confused:

Anyone?

Maynard.. had a look, but no, nothing showing up.. i was kind of hoping there would be, at least id know something was up! and seth, i've tried all that already thanks tho still confused, slightly more irritated hehe

Thanks for reply Hi, It's a desktop with a normal mouse and yes normal sound setup, I havn't installed any new drivers. And I have a gig of memory. I use this machine mostly now the internet and listening to music. The jittery mouse movement I can ignore (though it's obviously not right), the jittery music I cannot, I believe it's a hardware issue because it effects both mouse and sound.. but it does seem to occur when I do something like open a new page or click the mouse (basically when I activate anything, feels like some kind of glitch is in there), would be greatful for any further assistance. Thanks.

Hi, I hope someone here is able to help me out somewhat as I have pretty much exhausted all ideas. I got myself a new computer a few months back and notcied this problem straight away but as I originally didn't plan on using the new one too much just ignored it. Now however I am using it a lot more, so on with the problem.. It's kind of hard to explain in words, but when I use the mouse the cursor at times gets stuck or 'jutters' also when this happens if I'm playing music then the sound will stick only for a second or less tho but sometimes it happens quite frequent which you can imagine is irritating as hell. That's all I can say to explain it, if that makes sense? I thought it might be a memory issue so replaced it but it still happens, I can't think what else it could be. It still feels like a memory issue because it's when I start something or open or maximise/minimise a document that the mouse or music jitters.. for the music reason it's completely annoying. I'm running Windows XP. Thanks. Jon