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My computer locks up out of no where for about 3 secs it randomly does this i scaned my comp about 20 times found nothing i checked what was running in the prcoesser and the ram found nothing out of the ordanray What could be wrong?

I got win98

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Good thread — the replies from , and point toward sensible directions. The following is a compact, practical checklist to isolate brief, intermittent input hangs and to prevent needless reinstall cycles.

  1. Reproduce cleanly: boot with the minimum drivers (use the F8 boot menu or msconfig-style selective startup) so only core drivers and services load. If the hangs disappear, a startup item or third-party driver is implicated.
  2. Isolate the input path: try a different USB port or a different host controller, remove any hubs, and disconnect other HID devices while testing. Keep tests short and repeatable.
  3. Watch system activity during a stall: open Task Manager or a lightweight monitor and look for short CPU, disk, or IRQ spikes that line up with the symptom. Correlating a spike with the freeze points to a software or driver interrupt rather than random hardware failure.
  4. Reinstall or revert the input-device driver and the motherboard chipset/USB drivers, and check BIOS options for USB/legacy input support. If a vendor driver is in use, try the generic Microsoft driver for comparison.
  5. Try a different OS or boot medium (a live CD/USB or recovery floppy) to see whether the problem appears outside the installed OS; persistence across OSes means hardware-level troubleshooting is needed.

Advanced notes: avoid hot-plugging PS/2 devices, be careful with BIOS updates (follow board vendor instructions), and run tests with as few background programs as possible while gaming. Document each change and test result so you can roll back. If hardware still looks suspect after these steps, capture the exact symptoms and repetition pattern before replacing parts — it saves time and money.

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What kind of scan did you run, Anti-Virus, for Spyware, Ads.

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What kind of scan did you run, Anti-Virus, for Spyware, Ads.

Anti-Virus what happens is the mouses stops then everything else for like 3 secs then back to normal but it happens alot it is pissin me off i am gona formatt if i don't find out what it is it doesn't load anything just locks up.

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You may want to download Adaware or HiJackThis and see what else is going on.

If your system is limited on its resources, you won't have anything wrong and it still may act like that. (Like a P-66 with 4 MB of RAM...)

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If your system is limited on its resources, you won't have anything wrong and it still may act like that. (Like a P-66 with 4 MB of RAM...)

That's the most common reason I've observed for that kind of behavior. What speed CPU and MB of RAM have you? Does the problam usually occur when you have a lot of apps open?

Another reason for this could be that Win98 is accessing your swap file too much. Too little RAM or a bad swap file setting are the likely culprits for that.

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Its not resources I built this system my self its 2.2Ghz AMD Athlon XP 512MB i went with 98 because i am really good at useing it XP had alot of problems when it came out so i am scared to go with it i formated my comp it's looking like hardwere but unlikly cause it didn't start happening again for a few days It looks like a program but all of them never gave me this bs before

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Since the format it doesn't lock up something important i forgot to add now the mouse just frezze's i had a heart to heart talk with it(aka beat the liveing shit out of it) but it insits in pissing me off its annoying when i am playing halo and my mouse stops moveing I can't shot but i can use the keyboard so i get pistol wiped very annoying.

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Thanks for the help.....I guess well for the support i found out it was the gay mouse I am on a ball mouse right now the lazer mouse i had was fault so i am gona get a new one :)

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