I am working on an old “Really Old” Computer for an elderly friend. It’s a 233 with64 mgs Ram.
Problem;
I installed Win ME into it “It had Win98″ and all was running well. Then I get a call ,my client tells me that her mouse was not reacting etc.
I took the computer back and was amazed at what I found. The cursor would not move until well after you have moved the mouse, approx 1 t o 3 secs. On top of that her keyboard no longer functioned as before, when I try to use it, I hit the key, wait a minute and the area finally lights up. Then I went to the screen saver and tried out the screens. I set it to Stars and it was like watching an old movie where all is jumpy. The Stars would appear, wait a second, jump forward and do it again.
Needless to say I’m more than frustrated with this thing. when I gave it back the first time, it was working very well and there were no problems. Now, I can barely get the mouse to move etc. I’ve formatted the :Bigfoot” Old Huh?, Drive and re-installed the WinME only to end up at the same place. I’ve checked everything could think of including CPU speed, RAM Memory voltage etc, nothing works on this thing. The mouse is still jumpy and reluctant, the keyboard still takes forever to go from one letter to the other etc.
I’m two seconds from throwing it out the window but it isn’t mine and I don’t give up easily.
I am hoping that you might have some suggestions that I might have overlooked.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Aaron