Thanks Bill and Ben, *spurts coke out his nose*
I'll give those suggestions a try, i didn't know about the pairing thing with the usb ports. Will check for new drivers too (update and/or manufacturer). I did unplug everything and it seemed to stop the refreshing of the device drivers screen but I'm not 100% of that, it seems to come and go too so might have been coincidence. I tried putting the Gigabye supplied drivers for the graphics card in case it was an nvidia thing but problem stayed. I feel bad for hijacking this thread with my freezing mouse issue, normally I'd figure it out myself (eventually). We now return you to your normal Friday afternoon programming. cheers, Stephen On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 10:56 AM, <ben.robb...@jlta.com.au> wrote: > Stephen > > I've had the periodic mouse pause thing too on a couple of PCs over the > years. I've found the only fix is to change the actual USB port that the > mouse is plugged into, or what it is paired with. Unplug all your USB > devices and then only plug in the essential ones (mouse and keyboard only if > possible). Most USB ports are in pairs and I've found the problem is when > the mouse is paired with some other USB device that isn't playing nice. > > It would also be a good idea to check your BIOS settings to ensure that all > your USB ports are configured correctly (as USB 2 not 1). > > Good luck! > > Ben > > ------------------------------ > *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: > ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Stephen Price > *Sent:* Friday, 25 February 2011 9:09 AM > > *To:* ozDotNet > *Subject:* Re: [OT] Help - my computer has sh*t itself > > The no dust thing sounds odd. You may have cleaning faeries. They are the > faeries that collect dust which is then used to create pixie dust. In any > case it can't bode well for the health of your machine, all those faeries > tramping over your delicate hardware. > > I've tracked down a possible symptom of my machine at home but have yet to > find a fix. The mouse is still stuttering occasionally and I've noticed in > the device manager that it refreshes the list every five seconds or so. It > does it a number of times and then stops for a while, then continues to > refresh. > I have recently bought a new mouse (Razer Mambo) and I'm thinking that is > the most likely cause. I'll switch mice tonight and see if it changes. I've > found other people with a similar problem but other than "unplug all your > usb devices and plug them back in" (which i tried) I've seen no fixes. > > Do you think the lack of dust on your machine may be due to your fans not > sucking in air? (Hence no dust and no cooling) > > On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 8:03 PM, David Burstin <david.burs...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Well, I think David was right when he suggested that it sounded like a >> hardware/heat thing. I came home from work today and turned the computer on >> and it all just worked. So, I turned it off and opened it up and it was >> ridiculously dust free. Every other computer I've ever opened up has had >> dust but not this one (except for a tiny bit in the CPU heat sink and on the >> graphics card fan blades). The fans are all working normally too. None of >> the drives had any dust on them either. >> >> So, I think it was heat (just for lack of a better explanation), but I >> just can't work out why it would overheat. Rebooting didn't seem to bother >> the bios, which has heat sensors and alarms. Drive overheating? Gamma ray >> burst? >> >> Anyway it's all working now, so all is good...for now. >> >> Thanks to everyone for your helpful suggestions. I really appreciate it. >> >> Cheers >> Dave >> > > This email is intended for the named recipient only. The information it > contains may be confidential or commercially sensitive. If you are not the > intended recipient you must not reproduce or distribute any part of this > email, disclose its contents to any other party, or take any action in > reliance on it. If you have received this email in error, please contact the > sender immediately and delete the message from your computer. > >
