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From: pam1@ra.MsState.Edu (Phillip A. McReynolds)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Mouse sucking power?
Summary: inrreverent mouse - power supply to blame?
Message-ID: <547@ra.MsState.Edu>
Date: 28 Jun 90 12:50:41 GMT
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Organization: Mississippi State University
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Hello all.  I have a mouse problem.  My new Genius mouse is not functioning 
properly.  By this, I mean that the cursor jumps to random areas of the screen 
occasionally and generally doesn't behave well.  I have:

An *original* IBM/PC power supply
An XT running at 12 Mhz (no kidding - they call it a Super Turbo - Juko elec.)
A seagate 30 meg hard drive.
A VGA card (Paradise 256).
Two floppy drives (DD).
A Serial Port (driving the mouse).
A multi/I/O device.

Could the power supply be causing the problem?  Is my system too loaded?
A while back it seemed that the problem would go away the longer the computer
had been running (i.e., after it'd 'warmed up'), but EVER SINCE I'VE GOTTEN
THE HARD DRIVE, I experience this problem all the time.

Alternately, could it be my serial card, or even the mouse?  The problem does
not seem to be software dependent.

Emailed responses appreciated.
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pam1@ra.msstate.edu -or- sop@athena.ee.msstate.edu -or- dbeattie@msstate.bitnet