>Hi all
>Some of you have helped out regarding my E: HD apparently being flaky.
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>At this point the E: drive is no longer suspect - read on...
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>The system, including the E: drive, performed flawlessly when running in Safe Mode. Many times and for longish times.
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>I had to move some HD cables (love those SATA connectors) in order to be ble to run Windows "Repair" (booted from CD), and while it ran to end I ended up with an unuseable system.
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>SO I ran a complete XP SP2 install, again from CD. Again it ran to end. After booting up I was able to run installs of certain MB things and the video adapter.
>These were needed to enable the MBs network adapter and to set up my dual-screen video.
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>The result - I now have a system that simply freezes up at random but fairly quickly. It *may* be dependent on how many mouse-clicks I do. If I can get into Windows updtw with few mouse clicks it will run (check for updates) for a whie before freezing. If I click lots it frezes quickly on one of the clicks.
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>The freeze is a full blown freeze. No keystrokes, no mousing, etc works in any way.
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>I've run with the E: drive disconnected with no difference.
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>Any ideas????
>cheers

Try a new mouse. Seriously, I've had to replace a mouse on more than one flakey system