Experiencing Strange Prolems With PC

[tbird2340]

I just got a new 160GB HDD and installed a fresh copy of XP Pro on my PC. Ever since the install my PC has been acting strange. While in Windows my PC sort of jitters around. If I sit and move the mouse around in circles I can see the pointer jump and sort of skip around the screen instead of moving smoothly. This happens whenever I open a program. I had no issues prior with all the same hardware (except the new HDD). My specs are as follows:

Asus A7A266 Mobo
AMD Athlon 1800 CPU
Mushkin 512MB DDR Mem
Sound Blaster Live 5.1 Sound Card
Nvidia Geforce4 Ti 4200 Video Card
PCI Firewire Card
3Com 3C905b-tx Nic Card
Western Digital 160GB HDD

I updated the video card drivers and sound card drivers and I really am stumped. Any suggestions would be GREAT!

Thanks a lot!

[Army2001]

what kinda mouse do you have...the only thing I could think of is that maybe its something to do with the drivers in the mouse or the werent installed when you put XP pro on your new HD. Thats what happened to me anyway...good luck trying to figure it out

[tbird2340]

It's just a Microsoft Intellimouse Optical USB. It's whenever I open a program or right when Windows loads.. I can see the hard drive being accessed and that's when it's all jacked up!

Thanks for the reply.

[meese]

Something like that can happen if another program is running in the background using up your system resources or you don't have enough memory. After your system boots up, before you run any applications, press Ctrl+Shift+Esc. This will open the Windows Task Manager. Click the Performance tab. The CPU usage should be 1% or close to that. Also check the PF (Memory) Usage. Should be less then 512MB (closer to 100MB). If your CPU usage is say 60% then something else is running on your system in the background. If this is the case then click the processes tab and see whick process is running. The system idle process should be close to 100% when nothing is running.

[tbird2340]

Well I found out the problem but now I have to find out how to fix it. The new HDD is running in PIO mode instead of DMA..