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Ed,
It "smells" like an interrupt(IRQ) conflict to me. You are a victim of the
Plug and Pray technology bugs.
My guess is that Win98 turned on automatic IRQ assignment in the BIOS during
installation. This usually is harmless, but with some hardware, problems
occur as conflicts are not resolved or recognized. Since I am not a
Win95/98 user, I am working from memory here, so things get a little cloudy.
But in the control panel area, one of the applets, I think "System", will
report which IRQs are being used with what. Make a note of these.
There used to be a program on the original Win95 CD called MSD.EXE. Create
a bootable floppy disk and copy this puppy onto it. Boot you system with
the floppy. (Hopefully you do not have drive compression enabled as that
may complicate issues) Run the MSD.EXE program. Fish about in the program
and make a note of the list of IRQs being used as it sees them. Typically,
the mouse will use IRQ 3 or 4.
Now compare your two lists. Watch out for older Sound Blaster cards... To
fix an identified conflict of this nature go into the BIOS utility setup
program. Generally, there is a way to stop the offending IRQ from being
assigned on-the-fly as the boot process proceeds.
Hope this helps,
Aongus
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Ed Hancock
> Sent: Friday, October 16, 1998 7:47 PM
> To: MetaStock List
> Subject: Metastock,W98 & mouses
>
>
> I noticed a flurry of talk about mouse drivers. I recently - regretfully -
> "upgraded" from W95 to W98. The going has not been smooth. I get
> lockups at
> least once a day requiring a reset with the attending drama to
> recover. The
> drama is always worse when the lockup occurs in Metastock. I use a MS
> Intellimouse that I find excellent to use with Metastock and most Office97
> programs. I use the mouse driver from the W98 CD rom. I have also tried
> using the generic mouse driver and also tried another "ordinary" mouse.
> Still get hang-ups. I'm not certain the problem is with the mouse but it
> seems to occur after moving the little sucker.
> Friend of mine who also had strife with W98 has bought NT4 and reports his
> problems are over. Before going to this considerable expense I thought of
> trying a William Gates effigy and a few needles but there must be other
> solutions.
> Anyone else get hang-ups or lockups with this horror of a system? Any
> suggestions where to search for assistance.
> Regards,
> Ed Hancock
>
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