Posted: 7/3/2011 10:39:10 AM EDT
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Occasionally while trying to move the mouse around it will fail to go up or down. I'll be moving the mouse up but the cursor isn't moving. It moves left and right just fine. I've tried different mouse pads. I've tried different mice. I'm currently using a Razer Naga laser mouse with it's own drivers installed and updated. I haven't noticed any particular program running in conjunction with the problem. It happens when I'm playing games or on the web or editing pictures... but again only happens intermittently. As it's happened across several mice and pads... I think the problem could be either something common to all of them... like the Microsoft mouse drivers... or it's some other program running in the background that I'm not aware of that's occasionally interfering with mouse data communication. If the problem is the Microsoft mouse driver... wouldn't the installation of the Razer Naga's own driver fix that? maybe the 2 drivers are fighting each other for control? occasionally the MS driver wins and the problem occurs? I don't know... I'm grasping at straws here... and I don't know a good concise way of describing the issue so I've had no luck on Google. Maybe some one here can at least point me in the right direction. Windows 7 Pro 64bit ETA; in my ongoing troubleshooting attempts I just removed IntelliPoint 8.1 from my system... we'll see if that fixes it. |
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I've had this problem with several mice. a MS wireless a Logitech wired and the razer I'm currently using which is wired So I'm pretty sure it doesn't matter what mouse I use... I haven't had a recurrence since I uninstalled Intellipoint... but as this is an intermittent problem I won't know for certain if that did it for a month or more. |
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this was a common issue with the old mice with the roller ball. it just ment it was dirty
never hear of THAT issue with an optical mouse. All my microsoft mice go bad by just intermittenly working. you will be moving the mouse then all of a sudden it will just stop working, it will make the dig sound like you are connecting a new device, then start working again. try it on another usb port. or another computer to see if it does the same thing |
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Quoted: crap build up at the IR sensor can cause problems. Quoted: mice cheap! buy new! Quoted: Do you have anything that may be interfering with it nearby? Like a light, phone, anything electrical? I've seen this happen with some electronics at work. Quoted: this was a common issue with the old mice with the roller ball. it just ment it was dirty never hear of THAT issue with an optical mouse. All my microsoft mice go bad by just intermittenly working. you will be moving the mouse then all of a sudden it will just stop working, it will make the dig sound like you are connecting a new device, then start working again. try it on another usb port. or another computer to see if it does the same thing The current mouse is less than a week old and was quite expensive and on a new mouse pad. Buying new hasn't corrected the problem thus far. There is no other electronics near by. Different USB ports make no difference and the problem does not occur on other computers. ETA: the fact that it occurs to different mice... and only on this machine... and with new and old... and with lazer and regular optical... and with wireless and wired... seems to indicate to me that it is not a hardware issue. It must be a software issue... the question is what software? |
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Do you have anything that may be interfering with it nearby? Like a light, phone, anything electrical? I've seen this happen with some electronics at work. This was my problem a few years back. My blackberry would kill the mouse. The cord was so poorly shielded that everythime I got a call or an email came through and the phone as close to the cord the mouse would disconnect. Bought a logitech and never looked back. |
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Quoted: Yeah.Quoted: Do you have anything that may be interfering with it nearby? Like a light, phone, anything electrical? I've seen this happen with some electronics at work. This was my problem a few years back. My blackberry would kill the mouse. The cord was so poorly shielded that everythime I got a call or an email came through and the phone as close to the cord the mouse would disconnect. Bought a logitech and never looked back. If my mouse and/or keyboard reciever is 'behind' my flatscreen monitor, as in - the mouse has to communicate with the wireless reciever through the approximate airspace of the LCD - no reception. The mouse/KB no talkee and therefor no action. I had no idea an LCD was capable of disrupting the signal like that. It's not a line-of-sight thing, either. It's an area around the LCD that kills the signal. |
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Do you have anything that may be interfering with it nearby? Like a light, phone, anything electrical? I've seen this happen with some electronics at work. This was my problem a few years back. My blackberry would kill the mouse. The cord was so poorly shielded that everythime I got a call or an email came through and the phone as close to the cord the mouse would disconnect. Bought a logitech and never looked back. If my mouse and/or keyboard reciever is 'behind' my flatscreen monitor, as in - the mouse has to communicate with the wireless reciever through the approximate airspace of the LCD - no reception. The mouse/KB no talkee and therefor no action. I had no idea an LCD was capable of disrupting the signal like that. It's not a line-of-sight thing, either. It's an area around the LCD that kills the signal. My mouse was a corded USB, no wireless, none. Sheer luck that I figured it out. |