My USB Mouse problems (long)

CPU: Athlon T-Bird 800
M/B: Abit KT7-RAID
RAM: 384Mb SDRAM
Vid: 32Mb Gforce2 Pro
HDD1: 80Gb Seagate 7200RPM
HDD2: 20Gb IBM 7200RPM
HDD3: 5.1Gb Quantum Fireball (in a HDD Rack)
CD-Burner
DVD-ROM
300W Enermax PS

I admit it... I don't know what's wrong with my mouse or even if the mouse is at fault!

Here's the deal. Up until recently, I'd been using my MS Intellipoint Explorer mouse in the PS2 port (via a USB adapter). What stopped this happeneding was that while I was in a game the mouse would stop working suddenly, but I'd just have to jiggle the adapter and it would work again. Then there came a time when jiggling just didn't work. So I tried USB and was greeted with the reason I was using POS2 in the first place. The mouse would power down after a while[1], at which point re-pluging it would get it working again. But sometimes I'd get a string of unknown device errors.

So now I have resorted using my old mouse[3]. But I tested my mouse on other machines and did not experience this problem. I also tested the adapter as well to the same degree of success. That pointed the problem to my system. So I looked at the chipset and discovered that there were a lot of problems VIA's chiptset for my motherboard. I tried updating everything i could in the system, still to no avail. I finally got my hands on a USB 2.0 controller card, unfortunatly I have the same problem.

I have been told that it could be power related so I unplugged my HDD rack and the burned and DVD. Still didn't work.

Granted that I haven't tried another USB device in the system (largely because i haven't been able to get my hands on one), is there something I've missed in all this?

RedXian


[1] Anywhere from 1 second to 30 minutes[2]
[2] Probably determined by the phase of the moon and the current position of mars.
[3] MS Intellipoint, the one with wheel designed to collect dust and eventually get stuck.