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My cursor is on the brink of insanity

Postby BigZam » Mon Nov 15, 2004 9:50 am

Why does my mouse cursor suddenly randomly go insane?
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Postby Ichigo_89 » Mon Nov 15, 2004 10:43 am

BakemonoSensei wrote:Why does my mouse cursor suddenly randomly go insane?

Do you have a drawing artpad for your computer? Maybe you left the pen or extra mouse thingy on it and that's why it spaz's out. (Happened to me anyways...)
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Postby agasfas » Mon Nov 15, 2004 10:56 am

Do you have an Optic mouse? That tends to happen to some GM and other cheap optic mouses.
But if it is a wheel mouse, perhaps it's dirty. You can always open it up and clean the rods.
Also, I've heard sometimes if you don't load the drivers that can happen; even if the Windows OS recognizes the device.
Or perhaps you need to configure it....
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Postby BigZam » Mon Nov 15, 2004 12:47 pm

[quote="agasfas"]Do you have an Optic mouse? That tends to happen to some GM and other cheap optic mouses.
But if it is a wheel mouse, perhaps it's dirty. You can always open it up and clean the rods.
Also, I've heard sometimes if you don't load the drivers that can happen]

Yes its optical...
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Postby agasfas » Mon Nov 15, 2004 1:17 pm

Check out: http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000253.htm
It actually answers the question and tells you on how to fix it (for both kind of mice) . I hope this helps.
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Postby TheMelodyMaker » Mon Nov 15, 2004 4:08 pm

I use an optical mouse, and on occasion I find it acting funny which is usually fixed with a pair of tweezers used for pulling little bits of fuzz/hair/etc. out of the optical part on the bottom.

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Postby agasfas » Mon Nov 15, 2004 4:48 pm

Like MelodyMaker has stated; hair, fuzy etc cause about 90% of optic mouse problems relating to jump around. The site I posted posted (http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000253.htm) stated that along w/ two other common causes.
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Postby Mr. SmartyPants » Tue Nov 16, 2004 4:33 am

hahah? fuzz can actually do that? evil fuzz! i better start cleaning MY optical mouses
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