Found cause of inconsistent mouse input

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Randomguy007
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Found cause of inconsistent mouse input

Post by Randomguy007 » 21 Mar 2025, 06:22

I fixed my floaty/ heavy feeling after a long time struggling to find out by disabling xmp (extreme memory profile)in BIOS, while installing windows. The overclocked RAM probably caused instability causing issues while installing windows, which led to corrupted files, services, drivers causing the symptoms.

What I don‘t understand is why many mainboards have xmp enabled by standard when it causes issues while installing OS?

Edit: I noticed a significant difference in time while installing windows aswell. - With xmp enabled, it took way longer( about 2x as long), which if you think about, would'nt make any sense.
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Re: Found cause of inconsistent mouse input

Post by RealNC » 21 Mar 2025, 06:28

Have you tested your RAM with XMP enabled? Like at least two full passes of memtest86+ booted from a USB stick:

https://memtest.org

It's relatively common for newly purchased RAM to be bad, or to go bad within only a couple months.
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Re: Found cause of inconsistent mouse input

Post by Randomguy007 » 21 Mar 2025, 07:32

RealNC wrote: ↑
21 Mar 2025, 06:28
Have you tested your RAM with XMP enabled? Like at least two full passes of memtest86+ booted from a USB stick:



It's relatively common for newly purchased RAM to be bad, or to go bad within only a couple months.
Yes, I tested it, but there were no Issues with the RAM. Probably some incompatibility, between windows, power, RAM or Mainboard

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Re: Found cause of inconsistent mouse input

Post by kriegsnake » 21 Mar 2025, 09:01

Randomguy007 wrote: ↑
21 Mar 2025, 07:32
RealNC wrote: ↑
21 Mar 2025, 06:28
Have you tested your RAM with XMP enabled? Like at least two full passes of memtest86+ booted from a USB stick:



It's relatively common for newly purchased RAM to be bad, or to go bad within only a couple months.
Yes, I tested it, but there were no Issues with the RAM. Probably some incompatibility, between windows, power, RAM or Mainboard
Hey. On previous system did you feel any changes enabling/disabling xmp or you felt the difference only when you turned it off before installation? After the brand new windows did you try to turn it on back again or not?
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Re: Found cause of inconsistent mouse input

Post by Randomguy007 » 21 Mar 2025, 09:13

kriegsnake wrote: ↑
21 Mar 2025, 09:01
Randomguy007 wrote: ↑
21 Mar 2025, 07:32
RealNC wrote: ↑
21 Mar 2025, 06:28
Have you tested your RAM with XMP enabled? Like at least two full passes of memtest86+ booted from a USB stick:



It's relatively common for newly purchased RAM to be bad, or to go bad within only a couple months.
Yes, I tested it, but there were no Issues with the RAM. Probably some incompatibility, between windows, power, RAM or Mainboard
Hey. On previous system did you feel any changes enabling/disabling xmp or you felt the difference only when you turned it off before installation? After the brand new windows did you try to turn it on back again or not?
only after installing windows while disabled. No, I didn't try to put it back on, as I‘m scared that a windows update will be causing these issues again.

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Re: Found cause of inconsistent mouse input

Post by JimCarry » 21 Mar 2025, 14:12

Randomguy007 wrote: ↑
21 Mar 2025, 06:22
I fixed my floaty/ heavy feeling after a long time struggling to find out by disabling xmp (extreme memory profile)in BIOS, while installing windows. The overclocked RAM probably caused instability causing issues while installing windows, which led to corrupted files, services, drivers causing the symptoms.

What I don‘t understand is why many mainboards have xmp enabled by standard when it causes issues while installing OS?

Edit: I noticed a significant difference in time while installing windows aswell. - With xmp enabled, it took way longer( about 2x as long), which if you think about, would'nt make any sense.
on my mb when i enable expo 2 it gives me higher fps in benchmaakrs,higher ram speed,and overall the pc feels smoother.i have never seen in my life pc with xmp profiled enabled,every single time i have got a pc intel / amd ,i must go in bios and activate xmp profile?

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