Long story short: I've bought an esoteric German mouse by Logilink (Logilink ID0105). It has worked flawlessly for many years. But recently, it had begun to randomly disconnect itself from the PC, accompanied by the pop-up and the sound.
At first I thought that it was the mouse reaching its end, for when I was on the desktop, it kept turning on and off. However... when I was in-game that was not reliant on a cursor, it never shut off and worked as intended; once the cursor was evoked, it resumed its behavior.
My question is: is it an issue with a driver (even though this mouse did not require any proprietary software), Windows, or my mouse?
The OS in question is Windows XP SP3 and SP2 on the second testing PC; the games tested were Team Fortress 2 and Garry's Mod.
At first I thought that it was the mouse reaching its end, for when I was on the desktop, it kept turning on and off. However... when I was in-game that was not reliant on a cursor, it never shut off and worked as intended; once the cursor was evoked, it resumed its behavior.
My question is: is it an issue with a driver (even though this mouse did not require any proprietary software), Windows, or my mouse?
The OS in question is Windows XP SP3 and SP2 on the second testing PC; the games tested were Team Fortress 2 and Garry's Mod.