MOuse Freezes

MOuse Freezes

by pyrixpx Apr 24, 2005 4:40PM PDT

Brought a second hand desktop just last week. A Compaq Deskpro with a PIII 800mhz processor and running windows XP Home.

Everything was going great until the keyboard and mouse started behaving stupidly. The keyboard wouldn't work with the mouse plugged in. I changed keyboards, and it now works. However, the mouse is still behaving erratically. When I boot, everything works fine, then the mouse will freeze a couple of times, then start, and then stop working all together.

It's very annoying, to say the least. The only temporary fix is to restart windows, but I cant do that every time to mouse freezes as it usually does it less than two minutes into running.

Any help would be wonderful.

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2 things.

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Apr 24, 2005 9:23PM PDT

1. Did you remove the case and dust it out, clean off the heatsinks, check the fans?

2. How are you handling SPYWARE?

Bob

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thnx

by pyrixpx Apr 26, 2005 5:26PM PDT

I havent cleaned the case out - will do first thing.

Spyware - PC hasn't been hooked up to network yet, so no internet = no spyware - the hard drive I formatted as soon as I got it.

btw the lights on the keyboard + mouse come on, then says error 301 keyboard not plaugged in or something like that before even hit's windows at boot - mouse stopped working altogether under windows, though laser is on and mouse works ith other machines.

What should I clean it with?

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Tried that

by pyrixpx Apr 28, 2005 4:48PM PDT

Ok, so I opened it up and cleaned all the dust out of it - amazing amount by the way, especially in the heatsink for the CPU.

Turned it on, said my prayers and - the keyboard didn't work, the machine wouldn't boot to windows - am lloking at getting a USB keyboard/mouse now.

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