I am using PIII 500e , Voodoo3 2000, Sound blaster live, 384 Mb ram , running on ME

The (P/S2) keyboard/mouse freeze

After a one-week test of all the possible cause of my system/Keyboard/Mouse freeze. This is the test I carried out:

1.Ram testing - Dos ram testing - memt86, Burnintest - Hardware test all passed

2. Remove all spyware like morpheus,kazaa etc by running Ad-aware, Spybot. Detect Trojan by PestPatrol - find 3 possible. One is KaZaa BDE, one is ICQSkin , and one is Songspy.exe

3. Detect and remove virus - found one VBS.haptime.A@mm. Under AVG 6, TrendMicro Online, Swap It.

4. Uninstall recent software which is installed before the freeze happened.

5. The system still freeze with 200 Mb RAM remaining as it is reported by PowerTweak II ram monitor.

6. Never freeze in safe mode after few hours running (usually 3-6 hours) without any mouse/keyboard movement. It do freeze/blue screen after a few hours (usually 3-6 hours) in normal running without any mouse/keyboard movement.

7. Running GameLaunchPad to check all the background software activities.
Here is the list of running program:
ddhelp.exe
mmtask.tsk
msgsrv32.exe
pstore.exe
tapisrv.exe
rnaapp.exe
systray.exe
taskmon.exe
wmiexe.exe
stmgr.exe

I dunno if they are all safe program, tell me if some program above is strange please.

8. After freezing of P/S2 mouse/keyboard, my USB mouse still work! At the time after freezing , I use the USB mouse running BurnInTest hardware test and still report no error! But I have found that midi output fails (never hear a sound) while wave sound can still be heard

9. After frezzing of P/S2 mouse/keyboard. I use USB mouse check the control panal, there is no conflict found. But when I open keyboard driver detail. I run a bit slow, about 3-4 second to load. And no delay with mouse driver detail. Also I open GameLaunchPad to see any background program and it is the same as (7.)

Therefore, I am sure the freeze is not caused by either hardware as no error find on testing and it runs smooth after spyware is removed.

I am guessing if it is the problem of my keyboard/mouse driver. Or it is a system file corrupted? Or a previous virus/trojan infection causes unstable windows?

Since in the keyboard driver detail it mentions some .sys files. I dunno if they can corrupt or not...

Help please. Thanks

http://www.linuxalpha.org/archives/axp-list/1997/April1997/0828.html
in the end it looks like he found out the video card was defected.

Hi David,
I get the rare blue screen finally today

I copy it down
Error 0D
VMM(01) + 000132FA
in 0028:C00142FA

http://www.all-windows.com/win_exception.html

Definition of Fatal Exception 0D Error Messages
A Fatal Exception 0D is an error message that is most commonly found, but not limited to, out dated or damaged video display adapter drivers and out dated multimedia software; however, this error message has also been know to occur when the Hsflop.pdr file is missing or damaged.

Maybe Video drive or even a video card problem. I will try to find it out more!

yoo tommy i had a real stuborn video card once, it wouldnt take any drivers at all, then i used a pencel eraser and rub it across the the copper connections that push into the pci slot, then the drivers worked perfectly go figure it was just not connecting good enought.

My brother just test today
he use windows 2000 in another drive but never got error or freeze in a whole day!

I think it is not hardware conflict now...but most likely a software problem! :(

My final conclusion should be
Windows ME ...Directx 8.1...Voodoo Display driver...all together ....
Unstable freezing combo!

I see many post about directx8.1 incompatible with windows ME and Voodoo has no update driver for directx8.1 anymore..Sigh

Now..I should reformat the harddisk, install a new OS, buy a new Videio Card. But I need to wait my brother backup all his stuffs first. He is a graphic designer and he need to find out all program CD and important files first.....

Thanks your helping again, David! :)

I have problems with losing the mouse and keyboard also. i may try a new video card
see if it fixes the problem.

While online gaming it really went bad.
Gaming was great when i first got this machine.

Then slowly declined. Now i was forced to just uninstall the games, they are pretty much useless.

If i turned too fast with the mouse, it would freeze, and the keyboard would freeze, and i'd end up shutting down the machine manually, and constantly getting the improper shut down/scan disk upon restart.

even without the games now, If i use the mouse too fast (especially horiz. to the far left) it freezes for a second then i can use it. But sometimes it just locks it up.

Would a USB mouse save me the agrivation?

I'm glad I found this forum.
Thanks,
Ken