Odd startup problem - mouse going haywire!

[sepultura999]

I just built this PC. It is for recording music - so there's no internet at all, or games. Only music software, some music, and word documents. It's been a really good reliable machine so far up until today.

I turn on the machine, and everything opened up on its own - windows messenger, microsoft outlook, word, etc. I closed it all, and then they all reopened right away. I restarted. This time the programs didn't all open. I then go to open one of my music software programs. It opens, I click on "File", and I have to hold down the mouse button, or else it will close the "File" tab. I click on what I want, which is to record a new track with my guitar. Then it starts recording on its own. I push the stop button - it doesn't stop. I close the program, and it automatically restarts the program again.

I don't have internet, so it's pretty impossible for me to have spyware or a virus, but if I have to, I will install my PC-cillan software on it and check.

Any thoughts as to why this is happening?

[EzyStvy]

Have you tried a different mouse?

[Cricket]

What are the complete system specs for this computer? Please list all the parts by brand and model including the power supply.

Also list all the software installed on the computer including the exact operating system in use.

Cricket

[sepultura999]

Hardware:

Antec Sonata III with EA-500 500 watt Earthwatts PSU

MSI K9N4SLI-F Socket AM2/ nForce 500 SLI/ SATA2/ A&GbE/ ATX Motherboard

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000+ Dual Core Processor Socket AM2 Brisbane 2.1GHZ 2X512KB 65NM 65W Retail Box with Arctic Silver 5

2x Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB SATA2 8.5MS 7200RPM 16MB

Siig NN-440012-S8 Firewire PCI card

Vantec Stealth Case Fan 120MM 1

XFX GeForce 8500GT

Corsair XMS2 TWIN2X2048-6400 2GB 2X1GB PC2-6400 DDR2-800 CL 5-5-5-18 240PIN DIMM Dual Channel Memory

Software:

Windows XP Home SP2 32 bit

Microsoft Word 2003

Cubase LE

Guitar Pro 5.2

3 software programs that came with my M-Audio 88 key MIDI keyboard

Adobe reader

That's it. No games, no internet, because it's only being used for Word and recording music. No illegal software either, so there can't be any viruses or spyware. Before I transfered files from my Home computer to this computer I virus and spyware scanned them anyways.

Helppppp.

[sepultura999]

...the Enter key on the number pad was stuck.

[bozo]

Originally Posted by sepultura999 ...the Enter key on the number pad was stuck.

LOL!
Sometimes the simplest solutions are easily overlooked.

On my main box, I chased around, for 2 years, sluggish behavior, compared to other comparable boxes, that I worked on.

I have two keyboards hooked up, and one day the cheap generic keyboard went bad, so I replaced it, and, Walla, it ran like the speedster I was expecting.