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| Thread ID: 54411 | 2005-02-11 21:06:00 | Optical Mouse. | johnw384 (6641) | Press F1 |
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| 324004 | 2005-02-11 21:06:00 | Windows XP Pro, Pentium 4, USB2 and MS Basic Optical Mouse. After about a month's use the pointer on the screen started jumping around every few minutes and a couple of weeks later the mouse went dead. (No red light) Transferred it to another USB socket and everything fine. Same time frame, same problem. Reluctant to try a third time in case I start running out of USB sockets! I see the mouse power consumption is 5V @ 100ma. Is this too much for the USB sockets? Are they burning out from overload? |
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| 324005 | 2005-02-11 21:15:00 | Just as a point of interest. I have been useing a Logitech optical USB mouse for about five years on four different computers. It has never given a spot of trouble. I installed the supplied drivers while I was running 98se, but when I switched to XP I just let the OS find a driver. No problems. Jack |
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| 324006 | 2005-02-11 21:21:00 | A USB port in the computer itself can source 500 mA @ 5v. A non-powered external USB hub shares this power across all it's outputs, though so if using a 2 or 4 port external hub care is needed. I vote for a faulty mouse. |
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