Mouse will disable/enable during gaming?

[octoberhungry]

Sometimes and this only happens when I'm gaming the mouse will appear to disable and not work and then a few seconds later it will re-enable. During the game I can hear the Windows audio beep that you get when you plug in a USB device. This doesn't happen all the time but has cropped up on a few occasions lately across different games. Any ideas why this might be happening? Could it be mouse drivers? I'm using an Alienware TactX mouse on Windows 7. Cheers.

 

[octoberhungry]

OK if anyone's interested I might of fixed this...I tried different USB ports but that didn't help. Instead I uninstalled the mouse from the device manager then just rebooted the pc and let it re-install. I played for about a half hour and no problems yet. Will report back after a longer gaming session.

 

[octoberhungry]

BTW my last entry didn't fix it. But it's all good now..I bought a new mouse in the end and had a solid 3 hours of gaming with no problems last night. I bought a Razer DeathAdder and so far so good.

 

[AntiZig]

was last mouse wireless by any chance? if it was wired, then it was a driver issue or your cable was old and broken

 

[octoberhungry]

was last mouse wireless by any chance? if it was wired, then it was a driver issue or your cable was old and broken

The last mouse was wired...It was an Alienware Tact-X mouse that used standard windows drivers. It was a couple of years old but had hardly been used..It looked in perfect working order and was working fine for 2 months.. I'm inclined to think it was some kind of driver conflict although nothing showed up in Windows as conflicting. It just started happening a couple of weeks ago. Really strange.

 

[HEXiT]

check the power on your usb ports. it maybe that you have stessed 1 or more of them if you used an external hdd b4 using the mouse.

 

[octoberhungry]

check the power on your usb ports. it maybe that you have stessed 1 or more of them if you used an external hdd b4 using the mouse.

Thanks....I only used an external hard drive on one the 6 USB ports available to me a couple of times. My system is pretty new, it was only built in June with new parts all round.... The mouse problem would happen on any of the usb ports i tried.

How would I go about checking the power on the usb ports to see if they have been stressed? Would something in the BIOS help me there? thanks.