New hard drive installed

[Jim Dunham]

Since replaceing my old 20Gb HD which crashed last fall,I
have had a porblem with the new 80Gb HD, running on
Windows98SE. The new HD is a Western Digital Hi Performace
drive. I was able to get my OP system loaded and seems to
run ok, but I am unable to "click" on a program and get it
to open. Double click does not work and neither does
the "OPEN" work. I have found that upon booting the
system, I have to hit the "esc" before I can click and
open a program with mouse. It seems as though someting
else is running in the back ground, preventing normal
mouse function. The esc key seems to resolve issue, but
this is not normal. I have not been able to detect any
problems any where else in the system, but would like to
get this one resolved. Since my computor came with
Windows98SE, I only have a "Restore" disk to reload the
OS. I also had a "MEMORY" message that poped up while
loading the OS software. I get the feeling that there may
also be some info/apps that may not have loaded at the
time and may be causing the problem. I have since
purchased 2 other computer systems since the 98 went down,
but find that I am running low on funds. If anyone can
help, I would certainly appreciate it.

[Bert Kinney]

Hi Jim,

Have you tried another mouse?

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"Jim Dunham" wrote
> Since replaceing my old 20Gb HD which crashed last fall,I
> have had a porblem with the new 80Gb HD, running on
> Windows98SE. The new HD is a Western Digital Hi Performace
> drive. I was able to get my OP system loaded and seems to
> run ok, but I am unable to "click" on a program and get it
> to open. Double click does not work and neither does
> the "OPEN" work. I have found that upon booting the
> system, I have to hit the "esc" before I can click and
> open a program with mouse. It seems as though someting
> else is running in the back ground, preventing normal
> mouse function. The esc key seems to resolve issue, but
> this is not normal. I have not been able to detect any
> problems any where else in the system, but would like to
> get this one resolved. Since my computor came with
> Windows98SE, I only have a "Restore" disk to reload the
> OS. I also had a "MEMORY" message that poped up while
> loading the OS software. I get the feeling that there may
> also be some info/apps that may not have loaded at the
> time and may be causing the problem. I have since
> purchased 2 other computer systems since the 98 went down,
> but find that I am running low on funds. If anyone can
> help, I would certainly appreciate it.