Flashing menu bar

We have an old beige Mac 630 in one of our classrooms with system 7.5.3. The menu bar keeps flashing all the time, and seems to be connected somehow to using the mouse.A white cursor sometimes appears to the right of the special menu in the menu bar.If you use the mouse to double-click or drag for example, during these operations the menu bar stops flashing and resumes when the mouse task is completed.
Any ideas folks?
PS. the machine needs a fresh battery

When the sound level is turned all the way down, the menu bar will flash instead of the speaker producing the System [error] Beep.
Older macs take up a lot of CPU power dragging with mouse button down. It generates a lot of interrupts and slows down the processor so that it can't keep up the flashing menu bar.

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