Locking up scrolling IE5

[Paul Cunningham]

I have win98SE and somtimes when scrolling in IE5 the machine locks up.

I've changed the mouse driver and played with video card hardware acceleration but no joy.

It's costing me a small fortune reconnecting all the time

[The-Fro]

You wouldn't happen to have an ATI video card, would you? If you do, there's a way to fix that. If you don't, post your system configuration so we can know more about the problem.

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When I hear someone say they give "110%" to whatever they're doing, it makes me feel good inside, because I know I'm not as big a moron as that person is.

[Paul Cunningham]

OK system specs are :-

Gigabyte GA5AA
128 MB RAM
AMD K62 500
Intel i740
Voodoo 2
Adaptec SCSI card
Pace TV card
Soundblaster 64
Logitech Pilot mouse
Plustek scanner
Epson stylus 660
HP 4020 CD writer
Acer 40x cd rom

Thinking about this some more, I'm almost sure this didn't happen until I bought a Saitek cyborg 3d joystick, but I can't see how this couls affect it !
Thanks in advance

[This message has been edited by paul cunningham (edited February 18, 2000).]

[Grogan]

Try disabling smooth scrolling. Tools|Internet Options|Advanced and uncheck Use Smooth Scrolling.

Grogan

[oldman]

what are you using to connect ? i don't see modem listed,
shared irqs can cause the problem

[Paul Cunningham]

Grogan, I'll try that. Thank you

Old Man, sorry, its a Rockwell External 56k and no, no shared IRQ's for the modem

[neal whitehouse piper]

i have exactly the same problem and its a killer. the machine hangs and has to be rebooted.
Specs AMD k62-450, Gigabyte 5ax (erm similar to pauls)192 ram, courier v.everything, asus 3400 tnt, hp usb scanner, freecom cd rewriter, logitech mouse, 3com nic, etc

[Paul Cunningham]

Nope !!!

Disabling smooth scrolling didn't work. Has anyone else any ideas

[LuvNCustomers]

Paul,
However did you get that i740 to run with an AMD and an ALI chipset. That is a feat within itself. Does the machine lock up any other time or just scrolling? What kind of pages are you looking at? Are there a lot of Java applets running on them?

[The-Fro]

Give this a shot. Microsoft describes this exact problem with ATI Rage II cards. I know you don't have an ATI card, but what the hell, it's worth a try.

Open up system.ini. (Of course, back it up first!)

Add a line that says DevBMP=0 to the [Display] section of the System.ini file. If there is no [Display] section, create one.

Restart your computer.

If it works, congratulations; if not, restore the backup and keep looking for a solution.

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When I hear someone say they give "110%" to whatever they're doing, it makes me feel good inside, because I know I'm not as big a moron as that person is.

[Paul Cunningham]

The-Fro,



Ah Bliss !