Irregular Mouse Movements PISSING ME OFF!!

[Lee D]

For some reason my mouse has been acting up the past couple of days, the curser keeps moving by itself, i dont know why its the 1st time this has happened to me!!, and its really ANNOYING!

Its a wired Sony Optical Mouse, ive done the usual like cleaning the lense, cleaning the surface, and tried to use the mouse on a piece of plain white paper, AND, the sodding thing still moves by itself!

also checked for spyware, and ran the antivirus and its clean as a whistle!

updated the USB drivers and have the latest Hyperion Drivers.

Im running Windows XP Pro, with SP2 installed, never had this problem before, so if anyone can shed some light on how to stop this annoying problem please feel free to help!!, otherwise the whole computer is going out of the window!!!! :x

[Matty]

Had the same mouse and same problem! But got annoyed threw it at the wall, it broke.
Now i have a dell mouse, that does exactly the same :(

could it be interfearence from other wires around the back of your computer.. try moving the reciever closer to the mouse.. myn sits ontop of my computer.. then press the reset buttons .. see if that helps.

[Lee D]

Its wired m8, not wireless!...so it cant be that!...

[aLFaDaRK]

Mine was doing that too, I found it was reflecting the laser onto the desk back into itself and messing up.

Try using a mousepad. :)

[David]

Or is it pluged in properly?

[Fire-Fly]

I no this my sound silly, But do you have a graphics tablet?

Same thing happened to me, only i found it that the mouse that came with my graphics tablet had been placed back on it, nack that control the mouse instead of the mouse i was moving controlling it.

Probably isnt the same problem your having, but worth a shot :p

[Lee D]

nope no pen tablet..

& yep plugged in properly!!!...

its weird dont understand it at all

[Gary.]

nope no pen tablet..

& yep plugged in properly!!!...

its weird dont understand it at all


Buy a mouse mat.

[foghornleghorn]

tiny hair inside the red eye bit that you can't see ?

[Nick Hughes]

There might be somthing inside the red eye bit like foghornleghorn said?

[Mad::Matt]

Irregular Mouse Movements


Probably just Parkinsons.

[Lee D]

ok just a quick update, ive tried 3 mice now!

1. Sony Optical (Wired)
2. Technika Optical Wireless Mouse
3. PS/2 Mouse (Worked Fine!)

removed & refreshed the USB's and replugged my Sony Mouse in, bugger me, its still moving around!!!

mice 1 & 2 worked fine 3 days ago....

No hairs or anything on the mouse lens...

[Gary.]

GET

A

MOUSE

MAT

[Lee D]

GET

A

MOUSE

MAT


DONT

NEED

ONE

FOR A

OPTICAL MOUSE!!!

[Gary.]

GET

A

MOUSE

MAT


DONT

NEED

ONE

FOR A

OPTICAL MOUSE!!!

If you get a mouse mat, i garuntee that problem will go away.


I had a similar problem a while ago, although i didn't find out untill i bought a ball mouse again. Basically, the "lazer" thingy is bouncing off your desk and signing back up into the lense, which is causing the irratic movements...

[Lee D]

Na sorry gary lad it aint that, the mouse has been working fine for 2yrs without a mouse mat, ive just pulled all USB devices out, so the mouse is just left in now, its stopped moving, so somewhere down the line its conflicting with another USB device, god knows what, as i dont have a pen tablet or any other pointing device, i'll work it out but its definatley hardware related!!...somewhere down the line..

[Gary.]

Na sorry gary lad it aint that, the mouse has been working fine for 2yrs without a mouse mat, ive just pulled all USB devices out, so the mouse is just left in now, its stopped moving, so somewhere down the line its conflicting with another USB device, god knows what, as i dont have a pen tablet or any other pointing device, i'll work it out but its definatley hardware related!!...somewhere down the line..


I did all the same - Try the mouse mat !


Hell - Even try it on a paper ! Just something that isn't reflective :)

[Lee D]

Fooked Keyboard, why this was causing mouse problems i dunno, gone back to my old wireless keyboard & Mouse everything is cool now, back to Tesco on Tuesday!!!, BASTARDS

[Nick Hughes]

For 2 years? Maybe it's just the mouse is to old? :lol:
Buy a new one?

[Username]

Are you using it on a glass surface? I was using mine of the glass shelf part of the desk and it would jump around

[lambo man]

it could be vibrations on your desk, possibly if you have a good set of speakers with a sub?

[buckas]

i have an optical mouse, and a mouse mat - and sometimes the cursor will fly off into a corner of the screen or just move slowly along the x axis all on it's own :lol:

[-HellfisH-]

i have an optical mouse, and a mouse mat - and sometimes the cursor will fly off into a corner of the screen or just move slowly along the x axis all on it's own :lol:
seen it happening... mysterious... *makes scary noises* :oops:
mice with balls (are they called balls? :mrgreen: ) own lol