My Mouse Freezes alot

[Blackroot]

I have an optical microsoft intellimouse, its an older model, it had been working fine, but last few days it seems to be freezing up very often, which seems strange, i never have anything major running, it does it alot, mouse is about 1.5-2 years old, not sure, i think more around 2 however, could it just be going bad, dont wanna have to spend another 30 on a new mouse, anyone have an idea what it could be, stats are in my sig

 

[0roo0roo]

try on another pc before you blame the mouse

 

[Blackroot]

but i can't use any other PC then this baby, it's mine, my precious... what would it be if it wasn't mouse?

 

[Viper96720]

Is it cleaned? What's your computers memory running at? If it's at 200Mhz now that's probably causing your mouse problems.

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: Blackroot
but i can't use any other PC then this baby, it's mine, my precious... what would it be if it wasn't mouse?

ah well, but you must.

only way to narrow down the problems.

 

[Blackroot]

it's clean, not like there would be dirt in the nonexistant mouse wheel, i'll try that out tomorrow, it's 1, time to hit the sack

 

[SpeedFreak03]

Yeah those mice were pretty much defective. I owned one, and if you search around, lots of people's older intellimouses did the same thing. Does the light goe out? Mine did that, then one day the light stopped coming on. So it ended up in the trash, and I bought my logitech.

 

[Blackroot]

Light doesn't go out, i want a right hand mouse tho, with the back on forward buttons for internet, and the scrolling wheel

 

[adams828]

Originally posted by: Blackroot
it's clean, not like there would be dirt in the nonexistant mouse wheel, i'll try that out tomorrow, it's 1, time to hit the sack

Actually, they can get dirty. I've had lint get under the optics before and cause sticking.. maybe that's it?

 

[Ionizer86]

I think there might be some way to get a new one for free from M$ if your old one is a goner. Search around Hot Deals.

And yes, it sounds like the mouse is biting the dust. I had a mouse die on me once, and it sounds like what you're getting.

 

[Jdinh04]

yeah probably their might be something wrong with the laser, just buy a new mouse if you dun want to fix it

 

[Blackroot]

well when i just plug in threw USB, it keeps beeping, then saying there is something wrong with your USB device, so i think it's broken, thing is, my brother got mouse from MS 2 years ago, when you could just say a serial number, and they would send it, and i think he had already used one on this and gotten another free mouse, i'll have to see, anyone know what i can do to get a nice mouse, and not spend money?

 

[Blackroot]

forgot to add this, it does blink alot now that a notice it

Edit: How would i clean the LED and the senser?

 

[mmnatas]

A while back (a year ago?) this was a big issue.

I had one of the original MS Intillimouse Explorers, which had a very high liklihood of the cord breaking right at the entrance to the mouse enclosure. The loose connection made the mouse "freeze" a lot. I think M$ has improved the design since then, but I'm sure they still have problems.

I know the original IM Explorers had 5 year warranties, so the company was obligated to send out replacements without being a pain in the ass about it. I doubt they still put that nice of a warranty on the mice, but you still can probably get M$ to replace it.

There is (was) a website somewhere on microsoft.com that lets you report problems with your hardware device. I just said what prblems I was having, they had me do a few tests, several of which it sounds like you've done, and then they sent me out a new one within a week of my first message.

Oh, and after getting my replacement, I opened up the defective mouse, rearranged the cord, and it works as good as new, so it turned out to be 2 for 1 .

 

[Jdinh04]

Originally posted by: Blackroot


Edit: How would i clean the LED and the senser?

iunno just get a soft cloth and just rub it and maybe it'll work better

or go into controll panel and see ur mouse settings maybe thats the problem

 

[Blackroot]

My brother just had his Organomic Keyboard Replaced, because it was crap too, so i'm gonna have to wait for about 2 weeks before i complain, don't want them to get suspicios and think i'm like lieing or something

 

[Blackroot]

Originally posted by: mmnatas
A while back (a year ago?) this was a big issue.

I had one of the original MS Intillimouse Explorers, which had a very high liklihood of the cord breaking right at the entrance to the mouse enclosure. The loose connection made the mouse "freeze" a lot. I think M$ has improved the design since then, but I'm sure they still have problems.

I know the original IM Explorers had 5 year warranties, so the company was obligated to send out replacements without being a pain in the ass about it. I doubt they still put that nice of a warranty on the mice, but you still can probably get M$ to replace it.

There is (was) a website somewhere on microsoft.com that lets you report problems with your hardware device. I just said what prblems I was having, they had me do a few tests, several of which it sounds like you've done, and then they sent me out a new one within a week of my first message.

Oh, and after getting my replacement, I opened up the defective mouse, rearranged the cord, and it works as good as new, so it turned out to be 2 for 1 .

You hit it right on the head, the cord connecting mouse is almost falling out