About Gary Housknecht Expertise common keyboard shortcuts; internet keyboard functionality; use shift key to undo caps lock; reassign key functions; wireless keyboard questions
Experience 10+ years PC software and hardware tech support.
Expert: Gary Housknecht Date: 11/30/2004 Subject: Help! USB stuff hangs!
Question hello!
whenever i play games on my computer, after a few seconds into the game, everything that's connected via USB (my mouse and speakers) will lose contact with my computer and simply stop working... but the programme itself still works and the keyboard etc...
it has nothing to do with using up too many resources, i think, because when i run other programmes which cause CPU usage to hit 100%, no such thing happens...
and nothing to do with the newer games requiring more RAM to run either, cos even the older games which used to be fine have the same problem too!
do you know what's the problem and how to solve it?
Anyway, here's some description of my comp:
*Microsoft Windows XP Pro v2002 SP2
*Intel Pentium III Processor 501Hz 128MB of RAM
*NVIDIA GeForce2 MX/MX 400
*A4 Tech Optical mouse (with wire)
*Creative Soundblaster
Thanks in advance! :)
Answer Don't take this as a certainty, but 128MB RAM is not even up to what Microsoft recommends just to run Win XP Pro, let alone other programs. Also you are pushing your old Pentium III to the max. You have an older low resource system running high resource requirement systems, software and hardware (NVidia, etc.).
RAM is cheap - why don't you at least upgrade your RAM to at least 256MB, but more is better. I think you will find everything will run better.
