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| Thread ID: 68122 | 2006-04-18 08:41:00 | Mad mouses | ccpakl (10064) | Press F1 |
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| 447202 | 2006-04-18 08:41:00 | My MS wireless mouse and keyboard recently stopped working. New batteries made no difference and Win XP says they are working OK! And now my USB connected mouse is jumping around like a thing demented at times. I have run various spyware/virus scans and have Xtra's security pack in place. Any ideas what's going on? | ccpakl (10064) | ||
| 447203 | 2006-04-18 15:53:00 | Do you have the mouse/keyboard plugged into an external USB hub? That has done that quite a few times to my input devices...when I plug it into the USB directy on the PC, it worked fine... | TiJay (6055) | ||
| 447204 | 2006-04-18 22:35:00 | I'm starting to wonder whether the lessons of twenty-od years ago have been forgotten by the manufacturers . Do you have a bright light shining on the mouse? Until manufacturers started to use a metallic paint inside the mouse shells (or used really opaque plastic) bright lights often caused problems . The motion sensors in the mouse are sensitive to infrared . IR goes straight through many plastics . Sunlight could saturate the detectors, and stop the mouse working at all . The modern halogen lamps give out a lot of IR (like all incandescent lamps) , and dichroic reflectors still let half come out the front . Most of those desklamps have a bare bulb and a metal reflector, so you get all the IR . |
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