Mouse has a mind of its own?

[ShaneG_old]

I've been experiencing a problem lately with my mouse.

I've run full scans with AVG, Spybot, Malwarebytes, and Adaware, and all have come back clean. No virus, no bad stuff.

I regularly maintain my system using Nick's guide. All programs run without issue, and I'm not ever seeing a BSOD.



The issue:

This presented itself a couple of months ago, and has steadily gotten worse.

My mouse pointer will freeze in place onscreen, or move by itself to random points on the desktop, sometimes menus will open on their own, or an entire page of text will suddenly highlight as though done by the mouse command.
Other times, it will scroll the page at random, or click links on a page at random.

The worst part of this whole issue, is that it is so random, and just comes & goes as it pleases.  I've done just about everything I can think of, short of replacing the mouse itself.

I've had the CPU monitor up and running to see if there is some notable impact when this occurs, but there isn't.  In fact, I'm never really pushing any part of my system hard, unless I'm running MSFS.

Any ideas?  :-? 

Any chance the GC could be affecting the mouse pointer?
I've had a couple of issues recently with one of my monitors losing signal and reporting a "mode not compatible" message when it happens.

Win XPpro/SP3
2gb ram
ATI 1650pro 512mb
Firefox (latest update)

[Steve M]

This is just an idea I copied from another forum, it's worth a try..



In windows xp go into start menu, then into control panel then click on appearance and themes, then move your mouse over to mouse pointers click on it , uncheck "enhance pointer precision, and click apply, that will stop the mouse from acting crazy, this will work with dell mouse pointers and most.

[eno]

What joystick are you using?

If it has mouse buttons ....... as in the original X52 .... then that could be the problem. If so then disable them and see what happens.

[Tai-2]

Is it a new mouse, and what mouse is it?

[ShaneG_old]

I think it may have indeed been my graphics card.

The fan on it seized up, and both of my monitors went black.

So it's back to posting from the PS3 for a while.

It sucks when things get old.

[JBaymore]

It sucks when things get old.

HEY!  I resemble that remark.   ;)

[ShaneG_old]

Well, it works now, it just has no fan mounted on the graphics card anymore.