I'm running a Dell PIII 933 with 384MB ram, a 32 MB Radeon Card, SB live, and a printer. For almost a year and a half, it's been solid as a rock, but suddenly it's been having a really annoying problem.

I boot it up cold, and it works ok, for a while, and then one of two things happen:

What it usually does is the mouse freezes, and the PC shows no other problems. If I'm running a game or something that can continue without any input from me, it usually goes on fine until the game is over, I let it go once, and it ran for almost 24 hours without locking up. I restart or shut down and reboot, and it repeatedly gets the same thing, almost every time.

Once in a while, the mouse gets "sticky" where it sticks on the screen but doesn't totally or permanently freeze like the usual problem. If I let it go on, it eventually locks up the PC, and it has to have the reset button pushed.


I have reinstalled the mouse many times, ran several virus scans (one time it found some virus, and the problem seemed to be gone for about 10 days) without finding anything, and have tried another mouse, and nothing changes. There is never any error message, and it has no pattern I can see as far as when it occurs, it's always a while, 15+ minutes, after a reboot until it occurs.

Anyone got any ideas?? Thanks