Input Issues on Dell Inspiron 8200

**PacoL250** · March 13th, 2004, 02:36 AM

This has to be one of the more annoying problems I've come across. Lately, I've noticed that while moving the mouse or typing on the keyboard, there seems to be a slight delay (of not more than a half-second). For example, if I'm moving the mouse down, while the cursor is moving, then sometimes, the cursor stops moving for half a second, and keeps moving in the direction I was moving the mouse. On the keyboard, this happens while I am typing; I'll be typing away, and occasionally there's a slight pause in my keystrokes to what comes up on the screen. I may have physically typed in what I wanted to, but there's sometimes a millisecond delay for the characters to show up on the screen.

I haven't really noticed this affecting anything else, although if my WinXP startup times are longer than normal, then this occurs (and they have been consistently longer than normal as of late).

What's up? Is there a program that's trying to access something or another and is not working properly or what?

P.S. I have ZoneAlarm, PeerGuardian, Symantic AV, Linksys WPC54G utility, and the ALPS Touchpoint utility load up on startup.

**NooNoo** · March 13th, 2004, 07:51 AM

Would it be safe to say that you are online when typing?

Get rid of your P2P and see if things improve.

**jza734** · March 17th, 2004, 10:04 PM

these problems could also maybe be a keyboard problem. I replace dell keyboards all the time at work. The drifting mouse problem is definetly a common dell kybd problem. i would say isolate and other programs, check the mouse settings in the alps util, control panel.. lastly you could d/l the dell diagnostics program, run the symptoms test (only with the gui diags) and run the drift test dude..

let us know if you have any luck

**MobilePCPhysician** · March 18th, 2004, 01:01 AM

Dude, You're getting a Dell is code for dude, you just got screwed. I appreciate the business, though, failed hard drives, and failed power supplies. The month of February yielded 18 Dell services, this is out of warranty services.

**PacoL250** · March 18th, 2004, 02:34 AM

Well it's not just a keyboard/mouse issue apparently. When I play music in Winamp, the sound skips occasionally; and it has nothing to do with the mp3 file(s) itself since they work fine on my desktop at home.

In regards to P2P programs NooNoo, I have Kazaa Lite K++ (which I just uninstalled about a few days ago since I don't really use it), and I also have DC++. I don't have either one of these programs start up when WinXP starts up. I uninstalled the Linksys Utility since WinXP would pause during startup when I got into the GUI to load the program, but that apparently wasn't the problem. I didn't uninstall the P2P since this problem came up just recently, and it never came up before (I've had the P2P programs for a while now).

I ran a spyware/adware check with SpyBot and Ad-Aware, and cleared all that crap out, and I defragged the system, but that really didn't help any. The only thing I haven't done yet is virus scanned the system (I did scan for viruses last month, but there was nothing, and this problem had not shown up). Could ZoneAlarm be causing these problems (I never had them before even with ZoneAlarm; do I even need ZoneAlarm since I'm behind a router which I think has a firewall built into it?)

Question to MobilePCPhysician: I'm confused on what you are trying to say, please clarify.

**confus-ed** · March 18th, 2004, 05:34 AM

Originally Posted by Paco L 250

Well it's not just a keyboard/mouse issue apparently...

In regards to P2P programs NooNoo, I have Kazaa Lite K++ (which I just uninstalled about a few days ago since I don't really use it), and I also have DC++...

I ran a spyware/adware check with SpyBot and Ad-Aware, and cleared all that crap out, and I defragged the system, but that really didn't help any. The only thing I haven't done yet is virus scanned the system (I did scan for viruses last month, but there was nothing, and this problem had not shown up). Could ZoneAlarm be causing these problems (I never had them before even with ZoneAlarm; do I even need ZoneAlarm since I'm behind a router which I think has a firewall built into it?)

Question to MobilePCPhysician: I'm confused on what you are trying to say, please clarify.

I'll answer the last bit first with my phsyic tech powers - he means Dell are 'pants'

-I'm confus-ed ... not you ! ...

So lets try HijackThis 'the daddy' of malware removers - hard to use but much more effective than anything except Fdisk !

(if you are unsure post the very long log it generates)... & get Virus scanning with something up-to-date now !

Firewalls in routers don't work 'like' software firewalls - my recommendation unless you know how to correctly configure your router & have some application to do 'white-listing' (which you can't or you wouldn't be asking !) is to stick with both & figure out how to configure them correctly

So here I think I'd remove all p2p proggies, virus scan, clear all my zone alarm rules {which might currently let a p2p open non standard ports, which 'something else' might like} run hijackthis, clear all 'nasties' & then re-test ... or your windows install might just be FUBAR-ed from you continually trying stuff out which doesn't uninstall correctly as many 'free' things do ...