Something got messed

Banshee · Post by **Banshee** » Sat Jan 27, 2001 4:33 pm

Ok, i have not been able to use my puter all day. I was trying to play Quake this morning, but while playing, my mouse would freeze, then my whole system just stoped. I had to turn off the surge protector to restart.

I thought everything was fine after i re-booted. I moved my mouse just a little bit and it went crazy! The cursor went right to the corner of my screen and froze. Had to turn off the surge protector again. I was doing this all day. I had no f****n idea what was going on (i still don't).

So, before my mouse froze up, i hurried up and pluged it into a usb outlet. It said it was adding the new hardware, then my computer froze.

I restarted and my mouse works without freezing.

This all just started happening this morning. It was working fine last night. I would really like to figure out what is going on because i really don't wanna use a usb port for my mouse (i have the MS Intelli Explorer optical).

Also, when i was browsing sites, the whole page would get highlighted and the mouse would freeze.

Is this the work of a hacker!? I am using InoculateIT, Zone Alarm Pro, and The Cleaner.

[This message has been edited by Banshee (edited 01-27-2001).]

Zmoney · Post by **Zmoney** » Sat Jan 27, 2001 4:42 pm

o man i know exactally what u are saying..i used to have this same problem on my p1 120mhz....turns out it waz a heat problem...i dono if its the same for you but it sounds identical to what i had......my cpu waz gettin to hot cuz the fan on it died....open your system and see if the fan will still go on boot up...if it does try leaving your system open and boot up but get a fan blowin air on the open system and see if that helps.

good luck man i know that can be a bitch.

Banshee · Post by **Banshee** » Sat Jan 27, 2001 4:46 pm

This is a 2 month old computer.

PIII 800MHz
128MB ram

The problems only started happening this morning.

I guess i'll just keep it in the usb port because it is working fine now.

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Banshee · Post by **Banshee** » Sat Jan 27, 2001 4:48 pm

Oh yeah, i have sandra pro, it is showing that my temps are fine.

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Banshee · Post by **Banshee** » Sat Jan 27, 2001 4:56 pm

Now the usb is starting to freeze.

The first time i plugged in the mouse in the usb port, it froze before it finished.

Should i remove the usb drivers for the mouse, then try it again?

And this morning, i did a system restor and brought my computer back to two days ago, that did not fix the problem.

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-Bryan, AKA CPbanshee-
e-mail me! cpbanshee@excite.com

FunK · Post by **FunK** » Sat Jan 27, 2001 5:03 pm

It's an intellimouse Explorer optical isn't it???

jdblitz · Post by **jdblitz** » Sat Jan 27, 2001 5:07 pm

dude, my intellieye explorer went bad, turns out where the wires meet the mouse, the little ridge there damages the wires as you game and after bout 2months mine went **** and it caused my machine to lock. had to scrap the intelli

Banshee · Post by **Banshee** » Sat Jan 27, 2001 5:09 pm

Really? Maybe that is my problem. So what should i do, just plug my other mouse back in?

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Banshee · Post by **Banshee** » Sat Jan 27, 2001 5:22 pm

Yup! That was the problem. Just plugged in my Sony VAIO mouse, works great. I wasted $70 on that damn mouse.

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-Bryan, AKA CPbanshee-
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Banshee · Post by **Banshee** » Sat Jan 27, 2001 5:43 pm

Oh, good, i can still get my money back. I bought it from Curcuit City and you have to return it withing 14 days. Today is the 14th day.

Should i just get my money back, or exchange it? Did i just get a bad mouse? Or did it mess up from playing Q3 everyday?

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-Bryan, AKA CPbanshee-
e-mail me! cpbanshee@excite.com

FunK · Post by **FunK** » Mon Jan 29, 2001 9:58 am

Banshee, get a logitech. I have had two Micro**** intellimouse optical devices go bad. My Logitech is still going strong.
It has 1 less button, but is great for Q3.

Peace,
FunK

Banshee · Post by **Banshee** » Mon Jan 29, 2001 10:27 am

If i got my money back, they were gonna take 15% of it. So i just exchanged it for a new one. It this ones goes bad, i will get the Logitech.

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-Bryan, AKA CPbanshee-
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cornbread · Post by **cornbread** » Mon Jan 29, 2001 10:40 am

Banshee,
too bad you didn't see my post in the hardware section about mouse problems. i was having the same problem, and going nuts! it was affecting my games and everything. finally yesterday i decided to look at my mouse (microsoft wheel optical) cord and the damn thing was nearly cut in too. it was rubbing on the back of my pc desk which has a sharp wooden edge.

Banshee · Post by **Banshee** » Mon Jan 29, 2001 10:47 am

I saw your post. But i could not even use my computer for 5 seconds without it freezing up. So i couldn't really get on SpeedGuide to post. When it first starting happening, it was not bad at all. But after a few hours, my mouse just stoped working.

Everything is good now, until it happens again.

I'm giving the MS Intelli Explorer optical one more chance.

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-Bryan, AKA CPbanshee-
e-mail me! cpbanshee@excite.com