Dim 8300 throwing away mouse clicks?

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Sometimes I've noticed that my newish system:

dim 8300 / 800 fsb / 512 mb / yadda

is throwing away mouse clicks. A single one.

Usually when my downpress and release is too fast.

Before many of you jump the gun on this, this is /NOT/ the double-click
speed that newbies know nothing of. It is a strange penchant for this
system to disregard a SINGLE click that happens too fast.

I /am/ using the POS dell mouse, maybe that's it The basic ball
wheel mouse.

Perhaps a bios update like the dell-updater thing is warning me about?

Thanks!



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Thomas G. Marshall
<tgm2tothe10thpower@replacetextwithnumber.hotmail.com> coughed up the
following:

> Sometimes I've noticed that my newish system:
>
> dim 8300 / 800 fsb / 512 mb / yadda
>
> is throwing away mouse clicks. A single one.
>
> Usually when my downpress and release is too fast.
>
> Before many of you jump the gun on this, this is /NOT/ the
> double-click speed that newbies know nothing of. It is a strange
> penchant for this system to disregard a SINGLE click that happens too
> fast.
>
> I /am/ using the POS dell mouse, maybe that's it The basic ball
> wheel mouse.
>
> Perhaps a bios update like the dell-updater thing is warning me about?
>
> Thanks!


PS. Among the things I'll be trying /before/ a bios flash is changing
the mouse over to each of the following to fault-isolate this:

1. another ball PS/2 mouse
2. an optical USB mouse

Before I do this though, I'm hoping that this jogs someone's memory...


--
While using is ok, actually /writing/ free software is a disingenuous
activity. You can afford to write software for free only because of
someone else somewhere actually paying for it. Just say no.