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mine does that too and I have 512 ram

When I run 256 it is ok. When I run 512 it freezes up.

Hey WOM wat OS do you have for ur comp? i'll try to help

XP

ok.. that happened to me once in a while when i inserted a cd and when it couldn't read it, it jus froze my cursor.. or it made it stop several times.. try opening and closing the cd rom drive.. if that doesn't work, try purchasing another ram and put it with the 256 that u already had.. it may have some problems with the 512 ram that u inserted

Hope my comment helps

No answers or guesses?

Wise, are you running any mouse software. The reason I ask is that when I install the Intellimouse 4.01 drivers for my MS mouse I sometimes get the cursor freezing. If I don't install the drivers, and just use the generic XP drivers, I have no problems.

This is just one of those guesses you requested.

well,strangely enough that happened to me as well.Twice today and once last nite.One time I was clicking on the Wincustomizer Browser.I usually have it running most of the time my computer is up.Got XP 512ram.Seems strange we would be having the same symptoms,,eh??

No motion, I'am using the XP drivers that came with XP. I took out the ram chip and everything returned to normal. I know the chip was good because I took it out of the wife's computer.

brazil- what's even more wierd, I just put in 3 512's in the wife's machine and she got the same problem. I took them out and put the 3 256's back in and everything was ok for her. That is strange.

Freakin who knows on this one.Sometimes the more I try to improve my computer the more backwards steps I take.I have no explanation for this.And,last night I tried my first Winstyles theme and DesktopX will now only load halfway then freezes.I can't fight it anymore.Goin back ta wallpapers-n-windowsblids fer a while.So I guess you got your machines back together??With less RAM??

I stick to windowblinds and walls. Also cursor's. Yes there both running again.

hmm...never had that kind of problem, that is wierd.

I think I am all about that.Keep it simple ifn yer no up for Geekin' out,eh?I really like the cursors too.I seem to be stuck on Emissions.Just for curiousitys sake,,did you have the Wincustomize Browser open when cursors froze??

by the way,you got a big ol thread goin there!!144 and counting!!

Tell me about it. I'am going crazy. The ram worked in the wife's machine but when I put them in mine crap started happening. Man. I puut them back into hers and they worked.

brazil - Everyone wants to stop by and chat with Wise

Thank you elvee' but I think they want to see what you' me , motion amd GM are up to.

Oo Elvee is bak.. (so am i.. )

Some motherboards have limitations as to how much ram they can handle. If you have the documentation, you might check that. Sometimes a bios update can fix it. "just a guess"

Thanks jebland. This board can take a few gig. It did register the ram increase, on both boards. Just doesn't make sense.

Hardware issues can just drive you nuts. I have been fighting for 3 days with my old external CD-RW. I keep getting phantom drive letters for it, and Direct CD cannot format a CD-RW because "it is not responding". I have finally just unplugged and deleted all the CD-RW's shown. When I regain my composure, I will try again to install it. What's crazy is it had been working for several months, and all of a sudden it just stopped working.

Have you tried reversing the order of the sticks of ram?

Brazil- Yes it was (SB) open. I rebooted and it still happened. So it was both ways.Jebland- XP will not let me write to my CDRW but I can read it. I put in the updated drivers but still nothing.

ram dimms all seem speed yeah? or bios has correct ram timings i know how with some motherboards its either auto or manual

Had the same cursor problem with my logitech wingman gaming mouse. Once I removed the logitech drivers it worked ok...

XP drives me nuts at times. Mine goes off every now and then unexpectedly. All I get from event viewer is "...your computer has rebooted following a bugcheck". ?????