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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rl'Halsinor" data-source="post: 3358287" data-attributes="member: 19772">I  have an older Pentium 3 system that has been rock solid. The specs are: CPU: P3 1.2mhz Tualatin Asus TUSLC-2 motherboard 512 megs of RAM OS - XP PRO Antec 350 PSU However, I have been getting some issues lately: 1. Recently when this system was booted up the frequency of my CPU was off causing all kinds of beeps. I eventually was able to enter the BIOS and set it at 1.2. 2. I usually keep the system on 24/7 and yesterday when I turned the screen on the system was hung at the second start up window, i.e., the one that shows PCI devices. I had to restart and enter the BIOS and set the board at default settings. It booted up. 3. The mouse has suddenly gone south. You click it and it takes awhile before it will connect. However, the cursor works fine. Now it could very easily be that I need a new mouse but its issues occured at the same time as the others.  And for an added noob question, Can mice die on their own or is this a rarity?4. One of my CD-ROM drives isn't recognized. Now I know they go but this is relatively new, barely used. I moved this system 5 feet to make way for my new one and since then it doesn't work. I did check the connections and they are all solid. I did get one error message about IDE controller not found or some such thing. I have, defraged, ran two different virus scans - no infections, ran two different spyware scans, ran Trendmicro's CWCool scan and found one and deleted the infection, ran harddrive diagnostics and passed. Thoughts? Ideas? Advice? Thanks.</blockquote>

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