Help! It's dead.......!
Wednesday, January 21, 2004 by BoXXi | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
My optical mouse appears to have died...
I started the puter this morning and had no light on my mouse or movement of my cursor. Does anyone know if this is a common occurrence with the Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer? Do I have to buy a new one, or could it be something other than the mouse itself? Any suggestions are welcome.
(The mouse is approx. 3 years old, is connected via USB, and has only been dropped once...
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Styl-X Design
Reply #22 Wednesday, January 21, 2004 12:37 PM
Sounds a bit like: Error, keyboard not found. Press F1 to continue
Reply #22 Wednesday, January 21, 2004 12:37 PM
| wait. mine does this often. go into the device manager. go to the usb devices. right click on the main one in there and do the scan for hardware changes |
Sounds a bit like: Error, keyboard not found. Press F1 to continue
BoXXi
Reply #23 Wednesday, January 21, 2004 12:45 PM
Reply #23 Wednesday, January 21, 2004 12:45 PM
O.K. Plugged mouse into P/S2 port.....works fine!! So, do I have a problem with that USB port? I don't have another free USB port, so maybe I need to get a hub. (I have four USB ports in total..... Printer, scanner, webcam, mouse.)
BoXXi
Reply #24 Wednesday, January 21, 2004 12:48 PM
Reply #24 Wednesday, January 21, 2004 12:48 PM
Travis: When I did the scan, nothing happened, it just added another entry called "USB root" to the bottom of the list.
yrag
Reply #25 Wednesday, January 21, 2004 12:49 PM
Reply #25 Wednesday, January 21, 2004 12:49 PM
Bryan - Just leave it on that...works the same. Sometimes the USB ports get a little strange, but then, what doesn't.
kongit
Reply #26 Wednesday, January 21, 2004 12:51 PM
Reply #26 Wednesday, January 21, 2004 12:51 PM
thats good. now have you tried putting the mouse back into the usb?
Leo the Lion
Reply #27 Wednesday, January 21, 2004 12:51 PM
Reply #27 Wednesday, January 21, 2004 12:51 PM
Excellent news BoXXi......guess you were really attached to that mouse of yours..... 
kongit
Reply #28 Wednesday, January 21, 2004 12:53 PM
Reply #28 Wednesday, January 21, 2004 12:53 PM
and I think the ps/2 port actually works better for the mouse. I don't have one on this computer so I wouldn't know. Supposedly there is a problem with the usb ports. When I updated xp my usb ports stopped working. It took me forever to get them back. And every once in a while they stop working and I have to scan for harware changes. I think xp forgets about the usbs every once and awhile
goodmorphing
Reply #29 Wednesday, January 21, 2004 1:02 PM Who was it that found a cat hair inside their mouse? If I remember right, they blew it out... mouse worked fine.
Reply #29 Wednesday, January 21, 2004 1:02 PM
Who was it that found a cat hair inside their mouse? If I remember right, they blew it out... mouse worked fine.
XX
Reply #30 Wednesday, January 21, 2004 1:15 PM
Reply #30 Wednesday, January 21, 2004 1:15 PM
I fixed similiar problem by unplugging while compuuter is on ( USB only! 
) then reboot, and plug it back on when computer is done booting up.
) then reboot, and plug it back on when computer is done booting up.
Essencay
Reply #31 Wednesday, January 21, 2004 1:17 PM
Reply #31 Wednesday, January 21, 2004 1:17 PM
I think sometimes windows forgets....
Wife's computer has a optical mouse hooked up to the PS2 port. It died. Hooked it up to a USB port, rebooted and it came alive. Rehooked it up to the PS2 port and has worked fine there ever since. That's all I did to get it working again. Weird
Wife's computer has a optical mouse hooked up to the PS2 port. It died. Hooked it up to a USB port, rebooted and it came alive. Rehooked it up to the PS2 port and has worked fine there ever since. That's all I did to get it working again. Weird
Rocky Nimda
Reply #32 Wednesday, January 21, 2004 1:23 PM
I wondered.
Reply #32 Wednesday, January 21, 2004 1:23 PM
| Good thinking Batman!! I will try that.... Thank you........NEXT!....... |
I wondered.
lalfonsob
Reply #33 Wednesday, January 21, 2004 1:38 PM
Reply #33 Wednesday, January 21, 2004 1:38 PM
My usb hub( Is like an internal hub, I have two in front, four at the back of the PC) I have a Graphire2 tablet and don't ask me why it doesn't work on the 1,2 and 4 usb port at the back of the PC, it works only in the 3 usb port. But my wireless control and my digital camera work on all of them.
IPlural
Reply #34 Wednesday, January 21, 2004 1:52 PM
Reply #34 Wednesday, January 21, 2004 1:52 PM
Possibly the others might not be powered (active: as in up the voltage to the device) ports and the wireless and camera are passive (not needing extra juice to power communications between the device and the hub) usb devices, or vise-a-versa?
My in-Laws bought my daughter a digital camera for xmas and then tell me it I have to remove all usb devices or it won't transfer the pic's? So I brought it home and hooked it up and checked it between my passive and active external usb hubs and sure enough the powered (active) hub worked like a charm but the 4 port passive (no power supply, drawing from just the port on the computer) didn't work in the least...
dunno, might be that...
My in-Laws bought my daughter a digital camera for xmas and then tell me it I have to remove all usb devices or it won't transfer the pic's? So I brought it home and hooked it up and checked it between my passive and active external usb hubs and sure enough the powered (active) hub worked like a charm but the 4 port passive (no power supply, drawing from just the port on the computer) didn't work in the least...
dunno, might be that...
KarmaGirl
Reply #35 Wednesday, January 21, 2004 2:10 PM
Reply #35 Wednesday, January 21, 2004 2:10 PM
I have a bad USB port. I thought that my new printer was bad, but found out that the port was bad. It works OK with an input device (like scanner) but won't work with a printer or external CD burner. It's so weird.
IPlural
Reply #37 Wednesday, January 21, 2004 2:25 PM
Reply #37 Wednesday, January 21, 2004 2:25 PM
Sams Club has a set of external USB hubs for $24.99. 1 powered 4 port and one unpowered 4 port. Also if you don't mind opening the box and installing a usb-port card you could get it back working. I like the externals because I don't have to pull my system out of my desk to plug and un-plug things, for some reason if you hook all the back ports up the two front port quit functioning on my motherboard, puls plugging into the front leaves wires in the way...
(well actually it turns off the front ports because the pin-outs for the back ports on one set use the channel that the front uses and it doesn't have the voltage to power more than two ports on a channel
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(well actually it turns off the front ports because the pin-outs for the back ports on one set use the channel that the front uses and it doesn't have the voltage to power more than two ports on a channel
)
BoXXi
Reply #38 Wednesday, January 21, 2004 2:27 PM
Reply #38 Wednesday, January 21, 2004 2:27 PM
Hmm..... I'm confused.... so how do I tell which are the powered ports?
DesignCaddy
Reply #39 Wednesday, January 21, 2004 2:27 PM
Reply #39 Wednesday, January 21, 2004 2:27 PM
certain things can surge a usb hub.. externals primarily.. i have my keyboard and mouse going into a small hub and every now and then something knocks them out. i unplug the power for the hub and plug it all back in, works fine. now, INTERNAL usb? not sure if they'd suffer from the same problem. do you have a web cam or scanner or camera plugged into the same set of usb's? or mabye you can find an updated driver for your USB system.. it'd be tougher to find then something like a printer driver, but check your device manager and see who made that component, go to their web site, and see if there are upgrades.
IPlural
Reply #40 Wednesday, January 21, 2004 2:54 PM
Reply #40 Wednesday, January 21, 2004 2:54 PM
most motherboards will have a rail with the ports on it with ribbon cables that you set and screw into the back and then plug into the motherboards usb pin-out/socket, one set might have a power cable that looks like the sound cable for the internal system speaker, one red/two black or some such which you plug into a powered pin-out/socket near the usb pin-out/socket... The motherboards manual or datum sheet will tell you which is a shared usb set or not and also which you might have to add power to with the addition power wire(s)...
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Reply #21 Wednesday, January 21, 2004 12:32 PM