USB Mouse becomes less responsive - strange?!

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andrewcocking

macrumors newbie

Original poster

• Nov 19, 2003

• #1

I have a G4 powerbook, but one really annoying thing about it is that my USB mouse (a microsoft intellimouse) is fine when you first plug it in then becomes less responsive all of a sudden, the solution to this is simply unplugging it and plugging in again, but this is getting very frustrating especially as this problem seems to be becoming more and mroe common.

Any ideas or suggestions?
Thanks

 

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kjwebb

macrumors regular

• Nov 19, 2003

• #2

Could be the mouse cable dying.

This has happened in my house with MS Intillimouse Explorer mice.

Try it on another computer because it may be the computers USB drivers?

Thats my 2 aussie cents

 

Dale Sorel

macrumors 6502a

• Nov 19, 2003

• #3

My Kensington StudioMouse does this all the time. After a restart it goes super fast, then upon a sleep/wake cycle it slows down. I've just set the speed to where I like it after waking up.

I hope there's a fix somewhere in the pipe-works.

 

Dreadnought

macrumors 68020

• Nov 19, 2003

• #4

Have you got any drivers installed of the thing? So yes -> REMOVE them. It sounds like some drivers are in conflict with each other!

 

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andrewcocking

macrumors newbie

Original poster

• Nov 20, 2003

• #5

no this was without any drivers,
i've had another look on teh apple site and found this:

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/drivers/usboverdrive.html

only just started using it but so far so good, this problem hasnt happened since, i'll keep you updated, it could be to early to tell 🙂

thanks for your comments too, finding out that this happens to others too suggests it may not be a hradware problem

andrew.

 

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andrewcocking

macrumors newbie

Original poster

• Nov 21, 2003

• #6

i take that last post back, it still does it,