On Mon, 03 Jul 2000, Brook humphrey wrote:
> I'm suprised you even use the thing. I spent the good part of a week
> trying to troubleshoot a clients computer that was under waranty. Those
> mice are a mennace. I ended up replaceing the motherboard but I know
> that it was running properly before he used that mouse on it. I know it
> sounds crazy but allot of his friends have them and they all use that
> thing as ps/2 instead of usb. As a usb divece under windows it does real
> strange things.
For what it's worth, my Intellimouse Optical did not work at all under
Windows on the USB port at first. (But it did work flawlessly under
Linux. What is Microsoft thinking?) I fixed the problem by going to
Upgrade Driver, and when it told me I was already using the best available
one, I told it to list the other possibilities, and selected the next
older driver. It's worked flawlessly under both OS's ever since.
I can't imagine a USB device destroying a motherboard, even if it was
shorting out or something -- they just don't draw _that_ much power, do
they? Then again, I'm not silly enough to use anything less than a
300W power supply -- I have a tendency to actually fill all my slots
with assorted dodads (including home-made ISA cards, and I've shorted
them out and never had anything worse happen than my computer reboot --
that's what I get for playing with the wires while the power's on --
serriously, this isn't usually a problem except for really cheap mobos,
if you buy cheap enough components, they'll burn out if you look at
them wrong). Even if you had a bad mouse, if it blew out your mobo,
I'm thinking the mobo wasn't that great to begin with...
