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    Mouse Trails

    I have been "waking up" some older computers I have in my basement.

    These computers used Socket 462 motherboards, two recapped Abit KT7 Raid and an ECS K7S5A.
    When I logged into the OS, all these machines showed trails of arrows when I moved the mouse. The trails do not reset, so if you move the mouse around, eventually the entire dispaly is overwritten with these arrows.

    What's going on here? Anyone seen this before? Some component has deteriorated while in storage, definitely a hardware issue. The ECS was new motherboard. It is now incredibly slow as well, the ABIT ones worked OK but were too annoting to use.

    I'm thinking that if I store a machine I should disconnect the PSU. Any suggestions as to how to prevent this from happening?
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    #2
    Re: Mouse Trails

    That's usually a setting in Windows or an LCD monitor issue.

    For the motherboards, I would clear the CMOS and replace the CR2032 battery.
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      #3
      Re: Mouse Trails

      could be a gfx card fault.
      the mouse is hardware accelerated by the card.

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        #4
        Re: Mouse Trails

        Thanks everyone. Stj you were right, replaced the video card and no more mouse trails!

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          #5
          Re: Mouse Trails

          what was the card btw?

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            #6
            Re: Mouse Trails

            stj, the card was an ancient TNT2 Nvidia under the "ICE" brand name marked M64 on the back. It's a 32MB AGP card.

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              #7
              Re: Mouse Trails

              so probably worth fixing for a spare.
              in the future getting anything not pci-e is going to get expensive.

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                #8
                Re: Mouse Trails

                I wish my AGP cards are still worth crap, I'd think they're worth less than crap now... Then again what about an ATI Rage64 AGP?

                I just retired a K7S5A 5.0. That thing had served well for so many years but now I'm using a faster machine.

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                  #9
                  Re: Mouse Trails

                  a couple of my AGP cards are worth money... they're newer ones though. A geforce 7600GS and an ATI HD4670 (iirc)
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                    #10
                    Re: Mouse Trails

                    Speaking of the KT7, I think a friend of mine gave me one, and yes the caps on it are leaking. However last I tried using it, it oddly enough was still stable... Weird.
                    Alas too slow, it has a 900MHz Athlon on it.

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