Re: Help Please! I My computer is screwed!

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julian8888888@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Upon newly installing the OS I installed AVG, ZoneAlarm, SP1 + 61
updates (not finding or installing SP2 automatically for some reason),

Whoa, there's a red flag!

You should be able to install SP2. What happens when you try?

I did notice however that the problem came back after I tried
installing chipset drivers for the motherboard. The motherboard is an
MSI Neo Platinum K8N. Nvidia 3 chipset.

Hmmm, I wonder what would happen if you held off on this step.

Symptoms include randomly lagging mouse, freeze upon opening my
computer, no lag opening browsers. I'm paranoid about opening my
computer now because it's such a pain to close down once it lags.
This might be a clue to the problem. The mouse lag problem appeared
about 5 months ago. It was never too severe and I couldn't fix it so
I just lived with it. Could these problems be related? Upon a fresh
install the mouse lag disappeared. Now it's back with the other
problem.

Do these problems occur always after installing the chipset drivers?

I also notice a bit of a slowdown with the video card drivers
installed.
I'm wondering if this is related to the mouse and my computer, etc.

Could be.

We'll figure this out!

--
Dave


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