Mount mobo

[SanLorenso]

Should the mobo be mounted onto the brass stand-offs directly or should they be insulated?

The reason I ask is that the case I just purchased has washers that supposedly are for that purpose; but, I have never seen a mobo mounted using any insulation.

Thanks,

 

[sparky853]

Yeah, most motherboard are mounted to the case via standoffs of some sort. The thing you want to be careful of is that there are no standoffs anywhere they shouldn't be, touching the mobo and grounding it out.

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[Crashman]

You're best off to mount it without the washers, the board actually has some eyes (plated screwholes) that are meant to be grounded. Just make sure your standoffs line up with screw holes.

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[SanLorenso]

I have one stand-off where ever there is a hole to screw the Mobo down. That should be correct?

 

[SanLorenso]

The reason I'm asking all these questions is that I have a USB problem where the USB mouse either jumps around or freezes for 1 to 2 seconds. I have tried installing XP Pro fresh again and made sure that I loaded the chip set drivers first, etc. as per Asus, but no luck.

I don't think it is a software issue, but I'm willing to be proven wrong. Asus tek suggested that it could be an EMF problem and that is how this insulating of the stand-offs came about. The only other thing, I'm thinking, it could be is the PSU - it came with the case which is a Nikao XBlade. The PSU is rated 400 watts and has plenty of juice on each of the rails for what I'm doing.

Any ideas what the problem might be?

The rest of my HW is:

Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe
AXP 2800+ barton
Saphire Radeon 9600 Pro
2x120 GB SATA drives
512MB Micron DDR 400 RAM
3 case fans
games/MIDI port
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[Crashman]

I have an optical mouse that jumps around when a hair gets stuck over the LED/Sensor area.

Are you certain the problem isn't with the mouse itself?

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[endyen]

For usb to work properly under xp, you must install SP1.

 

[jihiggs]

i had a problem where my mouse would stick for half a second every 5 seconds or so. it turned out to be the scsi card of all things, somehow. it wasnt jumping around though.

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[SanLorenso]

I'm pretty sure it works because I used at work for a few days. It is brand new from a Dell system we just purchased. I have another one, I will give that one a try as well. Is there any other way I can test the USB system to ensure it is working properly? i.e. a game controller or ?

BTW. it is Win XP Pro SP1.