Twilight Zone type of problem with games, IDE HD and mouse wheel! :)
Monday, April 18, 2005 at 12:53 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by MoonQuake
(5 messages posted)
Hey guys, here's the Twilight Zone question of the year and I haven't found ANY answer
by googling about it:
When I play 3D games or when I scroll some large web pages my secondary IDE HD spins
down then up then down etc... and my mouse wheel messes up sometimes in the process.
I can sometimes even MAKE my HD spin down/up by scrolling the mouse wheel! There's
definately a link! This problem used to affect both my HDs paralysing my system,
but then I changed my motherboard, and now it's doing it again only on my sec. HD
that is, I must say, disabled in my Hardware profile. Any ideas?
What could be linking my mouse with my HD and my playing games? Thanks -MQ
Specs:
Intel P4 2.4 overclocked to 2.88ghz (1mb cache)(prob. occurs even when system is
not OCed)
Motherboard: P4P800 SE
1 gig good DDR RAM
WinXP pro sp2
Primary HD: 120Gb WD hard disk
Secondary HD: 40Gb Maxtor hard disk
Video: ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
Audio: Soundblaster audigy LE
What I tried to do so far with no luck:
-All software updates
-Changed IDE cables
-Changed motherboard/cpu
-Updated BIOS
-Updated VIA drivers
-Prayers :)
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