mouse trailing off

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I have been having a problemwith my mouse for some time now and can't come
up with a working solution myself. when I move the mouse it will move fine
but sometimes when I stop moving the mouse it keeps moving slowly in the
same direction i stopped moving in. It started with my wired mouse with a
ball, it was getting old so I thought maybe the internal wiring had gotten
faulty. I bought an optical mouse to replace it (also wired) and it is
still happening. I am running:

Windows XP pro service pack 2 (problem started while I was still running
SP1)
AMD Athlon 3000 (can't remember the motherboard type, I think it was a VIA
chipset but don't know the manufacturer)
512 MB memory
PS2 connection for the mouse

 

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> I bought an optical mouse to replace it (also wired) and it is
> still happening.

Sounds like a driver problem to me... what kind of surface are you using it
on? Glass, for example, can mess up optical mice... but that doesn't explain
your old one.

 

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Thank you for your help Jonba, I think I figured it out though, A few weeks
ago, the same time this started happening, I had unplugged everything from
the back of the box to fix my CD-Rom drive (I had broken the tray and had to
put it back on the track). When I put it back together my wife was rushing
me because she wanted me to go somewhere and I plugged in the keyboard both
to the USB and PS2 connections. when I discovered this, I unplugged the PS2
connection and everything seems fine now, I knew something was wrong because
SCROLL LOCK kept flashing on and off. Somehow, this must have interfered
with the mouse signals too.

Thanks for responding
Kevin
"Jonba" <jon@1000julys.com> wrote in message
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> > I bought an optical mouse to replace it (also wired) and it is
> > still happening.
>
> Sounds like a driver problem to me... what kind of surface are you using
it
> on? Glass, for example, can mess up optical mice... but that doesn't
explain
> your old one.
>
>