Weird mouse problem

[infinitelight]

Hi,
I had a Kensington wheel mouse. Recently I've had some problems with it. It was skipping pixels and behaving strangely. Yesterday the mouse is totally locked and it doesn't work anymore. I've tried to re-install it by deleting the driver from the device manager, but no help, I can't even see the mouse pointer on the screen anymore.
I've plugged a new ps/2 mouse. It worked without any problems in the beginning (Or, I thought so). Today I've had a strange problem with the new mouse. I can't move the mouse pointer between a horizontal line and the top of the screen. This horizontal line (of course is virtual, hidden) changes its position when I move the mouse back and forward. This happens frequently. When I restart windows, the problem does not occur for a little while then starts again.
I first thought this may be due to a virus, however, how a virus can damage a mouse? The problem with the new mouse is more likely to be caused by a virus.
Can anyone help me please?


System:
PIII500 with Asus p3v4x
WinME and win2K
I've had this system for a year with no problems at all!

 

[ICantSee]

Your video card(graphic card)could be at fault. Have a spare one handy? throw it in and see what'z up.

 

[ZipMach]

Erratic mouse behaviour? You may try using the software that came with the Ken. Mouse. And turn down acceleration a bit. To fast of acceleration will cause jumpiness/skippiness/erratic behaviour.

Make sure you are using latest correct drivers for your Operating System. I have a logitech trackman mouse. I remember I upgraded to ME at the time, and everything ran smooth, except for my trackman. It would run crazy. Anyway, at that time, winME barely broke into market, and logitech did not have any ME drivers. So I had to downgrade back to 98 to use my trackman. Now, they have fully supported ME drivers. And a certain way to make my logitech trackman work in a Upgrading process. Which involves uninstalling all current drivers, Upgrade my OS, then apply latest drivers.

Honestly, I think the prob may lie in the acceleration settings for you. Click start, run, control panel, then double-click on mouse settings. you should see a slider bar for speed, and like 4 click options for No acceleration, Low, medium and fast. I would start with low, and gradually increase the acceleration bit by bit. Click on apply and check out the mouse behaviour. This was a prob of mines way back, cause I use to mess with the mouse settings all the time. I just put it on Fast setting with full acceleration. However, it was too fast and the mouse just run haywire. In my logitech mouse software, I have a "advance feature" for PS/2 report rate (rep/sec). If you have that, turn it down a bit.

I would also suggest looking for latest drivers, and uninstalling your current mouse software and reinstall. One more thing that is worthy of mention. When using my primary mouse (logitech trackman) it uses logitech MouseWare. I came a across a MS optical trackball and decided to use it co-existently with my trackman. I loaded it up with the MS mouse software. Man, big mistake. My logitech was basically render useless. Only then did I find out, MS MouseSoftware was incompatible with Logitech's mouseware. I had to get rid of the MS software and trackball, and reinstall my logitech. I was back in business. Go figure, MS just makes things incompatible with others companies software...

Anyway, lets us how it turns out.

ZipMach

 

[infinitelight]

Tanks for the replies. My video card is Matrox G450. I didn't have any problem with. I don't think that it caused any problem related to my mouse. The mouse died without doing anything. It worked a long time, then some day stopped working, before its death it gave some signals of skipping weirdly. The mouse speed settings was normal, and I haven't changed them, they were default. As I said, the Kensington mouse now is not recognized by windows at all, that means there must be some hardware problem associated with it.. Otherwise, how can we explain sudden death.
Thanks again.