Mouse cursor jumps up and down and gets not usable

zezappa · Post by **zezappa** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 11:16 pm

System was running pretty well but 5 days ago, I still don't know why (curiosity...?), I decided to try the masterverb test and then system got crashed. I reboot and then this nightmare began.

With no apparent reason and randomly the mouse cursor get mad (and me aswell) and jumps up and down, get fixed at top or flickers the taskbar and other menus and sometimes when I click the active window it may move anywhere.

I can move it horizontally but impossible to click where I want. This happens with just power up or any number of applications running and it occurs for few seconds or several minutes and for each few minutes or one hour fine and then again and stop and again. No matter any system activity or not, sometimes begins at start up or some minutes or one hour later. It's crazy... and I'm not used only with the keyboard.

I've been trying everything: uninstall gigastudio (regarding posts), norton, SFP, devices, reinstall XP (no format), all drivers, Bios update and here a new problem appears, even disabling pnp, now, I cannot setup irqs in bios , so my 3 cw boards are "default" always at 20, 22 and 23 when before I just had got 16 irqs and 3 boards into irq 10. (unpredictable things)

Anyway, the system is running well, when the cursor gets normal, obviously.

Can someone help me about this, please?

btw, P4 2.4, psu360v, P4B533, G550 dh/2crt17, pci lan, XPpro acpi/usual tweaks, 2xpulsar2+luna2, no shares, no conflits, no fun...

...and just 1 little stop during this. Thanks!

EarlyFirst · Post by **EarlyFirst** » Fri Mar 19, 2004 1:19 am

Have you tried to uninstall and reinstall your video card driver?

also have you tried your system in Standard PC mode? I just ask as your board is alittle older and may be more stable then in ACPI..

just some thoughts

PT

Spirit · Post by **Spirit** » Fri Mar 19, 2004 9:55 am

So all the problems are related to your mouse ? When your mouse functions OK then everything else is OK ?

Have you tried just simple things like another mouse, reinstalling the mouse driver ? Also are you using a wireless mouse ? If you boot up without a mouse connected is everything OK ?

zezappa · Post by **zezappa** » Fri Mar 19, 2004 10:08 am

thanks for answers and, yes, I've tried to un/reinstall those drivers but this mad annoying thing still persists.

It doesn't seems related to mouse itself, tho the real problem is I lost control to onscreen cursor while the system keeps functioning well with the keyboard.

I'm going to try without this mouse connected and see the result...

Counterparts · Post by **Counterparts** » Fri Mar 19, 2004 10:21 am

Is anything sharing an IRQ with the mouse, or are there any conflicts reported?

The mouse device driver is a kernel-level driver, so it sounds like some other kernel-level process is interfering with it.

IIRC the mouse is 'mixed in' to the video signal late on in the graphics card itself...so the suggestion of the graphics driver being the problem is certainly a possibility, but from what you said, you've re-installed the entire OS...(was it a clean install, or a 'repair' install?)

Have you tried simply using another physical mouse in its place? (Perhaps the hardware is bust?)

Royston

zezappa · Post by **zezappa** » Fri Mar 19, 2004 11:18 am

well..., no problem with mouse unpluged but then I cannot work (not wireless, Spirit).

There were no irq sharing and neither conflit nor problem reported about one single device.
Counterparts, I just had run an install over the previous system and my settings were kept, I don't know if it was clean or repair

I'm completely a self-learning user and all my knowledge is mainly coming from experimentation and this helpfull forum.

This time I plug the mouse and uninstall the driver (one more time from many other before) and after this it's now OK

UNCREDIBLE, I just hope it'll not begin again (but no much faith...)

anyway, it seems well now, thank you all.

zezappa · Post by **zezappa** » Fri Mar 19, 2004 2:29 pm

I can´t believe, that damn thing strikes back again after I shut machine off for two hours, though I was about to say it seems now just happenning seldom for few seconds.

Intermittences are the worse thing I've always found around electronics ...fukkktch!!!

alfonso · Post by **alfonso** » Fri Mar 19, 2004 5:22 pm

Try to reinstall graphics drivers...

zezappa · Post by **zezappa** » Fri Mar 19, 2004 7:39 pm

Already done Alfonso, thanks

I must get another mouse as it seems there's a problem with this one, since I take it up and roll the ball with finger the problem stops. Nothing with the system, it seems...

Post by **hubird** » Fri Mar 19, 2004 7:50 pm

Counterparts · Post by **Counterparts** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 4:12 am

zezappa wrote:

I must get another mouse as it seems there's a problem with this one, since I take it up and roll the ball with finger the problem stops. Nothing with the system, it seems...

Have you tried giving it a good clean?

(Hint: get an optical one - less mess-hassle!)

Royston

Post by **hubird** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 4:39 am

or you're on a network and someone is f**king around with you taking over your mouse...

zezappa · Post by **zezappa** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 8:25 am

I'm going not to get a mouse but either a she-rat and..., above all, self-cleaning able