Welcome to Vista Banter. You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions, articles and access our other FREE features. By joining our free community you will have access to ask questions and reply to others posts, upload your own photos and access many other special features. Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free so please, join our community today! If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact contact support. |
|
Hardware and Windows Vista Hardware issues in relation to Windows Vista. (microsoft.public.windows.vista.hardware_devices) |
|
LinkBack | Thread Tools | Display Modes |
|
|||
Sticky Mouse Problem
It's weird, my mouse randomly freezes for about half a second to about 5
seconds from time to time. Sometimes it get stuck permanently, but will work if I unplug it from the USB port and plug it back in. Everything continues to function normally, so it doesn't appear as if other things are freezing up in any way. I have unplugged most of my peripherals in hopes of finding a cure, but it hasn't happened yet. I've tried a different mouse (both optical.) I've tried different USB ports. The problem only started a couple of months ago...I don't know if it started after an update or something. Any ideas? Thanks for the help! Tom |
|
|||
Sticky Mouse Problem
What kind of mouse do you have?
If it has a battery, how old is it? What is your Operating System and is it up to date? How much Memory do you have installed? How much Video Ram is installed one your card and what video card do you have? What programs are you running when the mouse freezes? "TomSullivan" wrote in message ... It's weird, my mouse randomly freezes for about half a second to about 5 seconds from time to time. Sometimes it get stuck permanently, but will work if I unplug it from the USB port and plug it back in. Everything continues to function normally, so it doesn't appear as if other things are freezing up in any way. I have unplugged most of my peripherals in hopes of finding a cure, but it hasn't happened yet. I've tried a different mouse (both optical.) I've tried different USB ports. The problem only started a couple of months ago...I don't know if it started after an update or something. Any ideas? Thanks for the help! Tom |
|
|||
Sticky Mouse Problem
It's a generic Dell USB IR mouse (I also swapped it with another USB IR mouse
with no luck.) I'm runing vista 64-bit with quad-core, 4gigs of ram and a Geforce 8800 with 512megs of ram -- everything is up to date. I notice the problem all the time. I haven't noticed if it's more common while running graphic intensive games. I just set the advanced settings to "best performance," to see if that helps somehow. I'm going to stop every unessential program from running as well -- except anti-virus. Thanks for getting back to me. "Bogey Man" wrote: What kind of mouse do you have? If it has a battery, how old is it? What is your Operating System and is it up to date? How much Memory do you have installed? How much Video Ram is installed one your card and what video card do you have? What programs are you running when the mouse freezes? "TomSullivan" wrote in message ... It's weird, my mouse randomly freezes for about half a second to about 5 seconds from time to time. Sometimes it get stuck permanently, but will work if I unplug it from the USB port and plug it back in. Everything continues to function normally, so it doesn't appear as if other things are freezing up in any way. I have unplugged most of my peripherals in hopes of finding a cure, but it hasn't happened yet. I've tried a different mouse (both optical.) I've tried different USB ports. The problem only started a couple of months ago...I don't know if it started after an update or something. Any ideas? Thanks for the help! Tom |
|
|||
Sticky Mouse Problem
I have a similar system with 8 gigs of ram and if my anti-virus kicks in
with a full system scan, I will temporarily have a frozen mouse as the system resources are just "gobbled up" by the start of the anti-virus scan. Perhaps something like that is happening to you. "TomSullivan" wrote in message ... It's a generic Dell USB IR mouse (I also swapped it with another USB IR mouse with no luck.) I'm runing vista 64-bit with quad-core, 4gigs of ram and a Geforce 8800 with 512megs of ram -- everything is up to date. I notice the problem all the time. I haven't noticed if it's more common while running graphic intensive games. I just set the advanced settings to "best performance," to see if that helps somehow. I'm going to stop every unessential program from running as well -- except anti-virus. Thanks for getting back to me. "Bogey Man" wrote: What kind of mouse do you have? If it has a battery, how old is it? What is your Operating System and is it up to date? How much Memory do you have installed? How much Video Ram is installed one your card and what video card do you have? What programs are you running when the mouse freezes? "TomSullivan" wrote in message ... It's weird, my mouse randomly freezes for about half a second to about 5 seconds from time to time. Sometimes it get stuck permanently, but will work if I unplug it from the USB port and plug it back in. Everything continues to function normally, so it doesn't appear as if other things are freezing up in any way. I have unplugged most of my peripherals in hopes of finding a cure, but it hasn't happened yet. I've tried a different mouse (both optical.) I've tried different USB ports. The problem only started a couple of months ago...I don't know if it started after an update or something. Any ideas? Thanks for the help! Tom |
|
|||
Sticky Mouse Problem
Unfortunately, that's not it either. I tried disabling everything. Even
closed every unnecessary system process through task manager...I then updated my bios and checked to make sure all of my drivers (chipset, videocard, etc) were up to date. Really frustrating...I'm going to try using a ubuntu live CD and see if it does it then... I appreciate the feedback. "Bogey Man" wrote: I have a similar system with 8 gigs of ram and if my anti-virus kicks in with a full system scan, I will temporarily have a frozen mouse as the system resources are just "gobbled up" by the start of the anti-virus scan. Perhaps something like that is happening to you. "TomSullivan" wrote in message ... It's a generic Dell USB IR mouse (I also swapped it with another USB IR mouse with no luck.) I'm runing vista 64-bit with quad-core, 4gigs of ram and a Geforce 8800 with 512megs of ram -- everything is up to date. I notice the problem all the time. I haven't noticed if it's more common while running graphic intensive games. I just set the advanced settings to "best performance," to see if that helps somehow. I'm going to stop every unessential program from running as well -- except anti-virus. Thanks for getting back to me. "Bogey Man" wrote: What kind of mouse do you have? If it has a battery, how old is it? What is your Operating System and is it up to date? How much Memory do you have installed? How much Video Ram is installed one your card and what video card do you have? What programs are you running when the mouse freezes? "TomSullivan" wrote in message ... It's weird, my mouse randomly freezes for about half a second to about 5 seconds from time to time. Sometimes it get stuck permanently, but will work if I unplug it from the USB port and plug it back in. Everything continues to function normally, so it doesn't appear as if other things are freezing up in any way. I have unplugged most of my peripherals in hopes of finding a cure, but it hasn't happened yet. I've tried a different mouse (both optical.) I've tried different USB ports. The problem only started a couple of months ago...I don't know if it started after an update or something. Any ideas? Thanks for the help! Tom |
|
|||
Sticky Mouse Problem
Tom,
have you checked your CPU utilization when your Mouse freezes? The problem may be that some process is temporarily consuming 100% of the CPU so that the mouse position does not get updated. I ask this since I have seen it happen on my laptop. Regretfully I have not yet found the cause of the problem all I know is that it is related to the display of a new website. "TomSullivan" wrote in message ... Unfortunately, that's not it either. I tried disabling everything. Even closed every unnecessary system process through task manager...I then updated my bios and checked to make sure all of my drivers (chipset, videocard, etc) were up to date. Really frustrating...I'm going to try using a ubuntu live CD and see if it does it then... I appreciate the feedback. "Bogey Man" wrote: I have a similar system with 8 gigs of ram and if my anti-virus kicks in with a full system scan, I will temporarily have a frozen mouse as the system resources are just "gobbled up" by the start of the anti-virus scan. Perhaps something like that is happening to you. "TomSullivan" wrote in message ... It's a generic Dell USB IR mouse (I also swapped it with another USB IR mouse with no luck.) I'm runing vista 64-bit with quad-core, 4gigs of ram and a Geforce 8800 with 512megs of ram -- everything is up to date. I notice the problem all the time. I haven't noticed if it's more common while running graphic intensive games. I just set the advanced settings to "best performance," to see if that helps somehow. I'm going to stop every unessential program from running as well -- except anti-virus. Thanks for getting back to me. "Bogey Man" wrote: What kind of mouse do you have? If it has a battery, how old is it? What is your Operating System and is it up to date? How much Memory do you have installed? How much Video Ram is installed one your card and what video card do you have? What programs are you running when the mouse freezes? "TomSullivan" wrote in message ... It's weird, my mouse randomly freezes for about half a second to about 5 seconds from time to time. Sometimes it get stuck permanently, but will work if I unplug it from the USB port and plug it back in. Everything continues to function normally, so it doesn't appear as if other things are freezing up in any way. I have unplugged most of my peripherals in hopes of finding a cure, but it hasn't happened yet. I've tried a different mouse (both optical.) I've tried different USB ports. The problem only started a couple of months ago...I don't know if it started after an update or something. Any ideas? Thanks for the help! Tom |
|
|||
Sticky Mouse Problem
Nope, I have a four-core CPU and memory meter running in the sidebar.
Sometimes it sticks in a resting state, which really confuses me. But, now I know it's not a Windows problem....so I should ship myself off to some other forum or newsgroup. It behaved the same in Ubuntu. So...today, I'm going to unplug every single unnecessary item from the motherboard, including hard drives, DVD, and boot Ubuntu from USB and see if I still get the problem. What's weird is that all the other USB devices continue working normally. "Curious" wrote: Tom, have you checked your CPU utilization when your Mouse freezes? The problem may be that some process is temporarily consuming 100% of the CPU so that the mouse position does not get updated. I ask this since I have seen it happen on my laptop. Regretfully I have not yet found the cause of the problem all I know is that it is related to the display of a new website. "TomSullivan" wrote in message ... Unfortunately, that's not it either. I tried disabling everything. Even closed every unnecessary system process through task manager...I then updated my bios and checked to make sure all of my drivers (chipset, videocard, etc) were up to date. Really frustrating...I'm going to try using a ubuntu live CD and see if it does it then... I appreciate the feedback. "Bogey Man" wrote: I have a similar system with 8 gigs of ram and if my anti-virus kicks in with a full system scan, I will temporarily have a frozen mouse as the system resources are just "gobbled up" by the start of the anti-virus scan. Perhaps something like that is happening to you. "TomSullivan" wrote in message ... It's a generic Dell USB IR mouse (I also swapped it with another USB IR mouse with no luck.) I'm runing vista 64-bit with quad-core, 4gigs of ram and a Geforce 8800 with 512megs of ram -- everything is up to date. I notice the problem all the time. I haven't noticed if it's more common while running graphic intensive games. I just set the advanced settings to "best performance," to see if that helps somehow. I'm going to stop every unessential program from running as well -- except anti-virus. Thanks for getting back to me. "Bogey Man" wrote: What kind of mouse do you have? If it has a battery, how old is it? What is your Operating System and is it up to date? How much Memory do you have installed? How much Video Ram is installed one your card and what video card do you have? What programs are you running when the mouse freezes? "TomSullivan" wrote in message ... It's weird, my mouse randomly freezes for about half a second to about 5 seconds from time to time. Sometimes it get stuck permanently, but will work if I unplug it from the USB port and plug it back in. Everything continues to function normally, so it doesn't appear as if other things are freezing up in any way. I have unplugged most of my peripherals in hopes of finding a cure, but it hasn't happened yet. I've tried a different mouse (both optical.) I've tried different USB ports. The problem only started a couple of months ago...I don't know if it started after an update or something. Any ideas? Thanks for the help! Tom |
|
|||
Sticky Mouse Problem
Good Luck and happy to see you go to another newsgroup.
Just to add my 2 cents. Check your mouse driver which is probably the wrong one for XP and or Ubuntu -- Peter Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged. "TomSullivan" wrote in message news Nope, I have a four-core CPU and memory meter running in the sidebar. Sometimes it sticks in a resting state, which really confuses me. But, now I know it's not a Windows problem....so I should ship myself off to some other forum or newsgroup. It behaved the same in Ubuntu. So...today, I'm going to unplug every single unnecessary item from the motherboard, including hard drives, DVD, and boot Ubuntu from USB and see if I still get the problem. What's weird is that all the other USB devices continue working normally. "Curious" wrote: Tom, have you checked your CPU utilization when your Mouse freezes? The problem may be that some process is temporarily consuming 100% of the CPU so that the mouse position does not get updated. I ask this since I have seen it happen on my laptop. Regretfully I have not yet found the cause of the problem all I know is that it is related to the display of a new website. "TomSullivan" wrote in message ... Unfortunately, that's not it either. I tried disabling everything. Even closed every unnecessary system process through task manager...I then updated my bios and checked to make sure all of my drivers (chipset, videocard, etc) were up to date. Really frustrating...I'm going to try using a ubuntu live CD and see if it does it then... I appreciate the feedback. "Bogey Man" wrote: I have a similar system with 8 gigs of ram and if my anti-virus kicks in with a full system scan, I will temporarily have a frozen mouse as the system resources are just "gobbled up" by the start of the anti-virus scan. Perhaps something like that is happening to you. "TomSullivan" wrote in message ... It's a generic Dell USB IR mouse (I also swapped it with another USB IR mouse with no luck.) I'm runing vista 64-bit with quad-core, 4gigs of ram and a Geforce 8800 with 512megs of ram -- everything is up to date. I notice the problem all the time. I haven't noticed if it's more common while running graphic intensive games. I just set the advanced settings to "best performance," to see if that helps somehow. I'm going to stop every unessential program from running as well -- except anti-virus. Thanks for getting back to me. "Bogey Man" wrote: What kind of mouse do you have? If it has a battery, how old is it? What is your Operating System and is it up to date? How much Memory do you have installed? How much Video Ram is installed one your card and what video card do you have? What programs are you running when the mouse freezes? "TomSullivan" wrote in message ... It's weird, my mouse randomly freezes for about half a second to about 5 seconds from time to time. Sometimes it get stuck permanently, but will work if I unplug it from the USB port and plug it back in. Everything continues to function normally, so it doesn't appear as if other things are freezing up in any way. I have unplugged most of my peripherals in hopes of finding a cure, but it hasn't happened yet. I've tried a different mouse (both optical.) I've tried different USB ports. The problem only started a couple of months ago...I don't know if it started after an update or something. Any ideas? Thanks for the help! Tom |