Computer freezes while using mouse to select group of data in Exce

[Guest]

Regularly, when mousing to select a group of data in a column , using Excel,
the computer completely freezes up, and I have to hard reset to recover.
This happened with 98 and XP office versions on my computer.

Thanks for your time,
Mike Shook

 

[Dave Peterson]

I have no idea...

But David McRitchie has a bunch of notes that deal with the misbehavior of mice
and excel.

http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/ghosting.txt

What kind of mouse do you use?
USB/PS2
Logitech/MS Intellipoint/etc

Make sure you have the current drivers and post back with more details it that
doesn't help. (Maybe someone will have overcome the same problem as you.)

 

[Guest]

It is a usb-ps2 hp mouse on an older hp computer with Win XP. Loaded the
latest intelimouse driver. Same problem. Seems to work a few times, then
freezes.

Mike

 

[Dave Peterson]

USB or PS2?

If you can, can you swap mice for testing?

And if you're using USB, can you go back to PS2? (Or vice versa?)

(I got nothin')

 

[Guest]

Switched mouse to logitech, used logitech software, switched usb to ps2, and
still have not solved problem. Occurs most often while selecting data for
charts. Even occurs while manually inputting cell locations. It is getting
very frustrating and I am thinking of going back to Lotus123 or Quatro.

Mike

 

[Dave Peterson]

I don't have any other guesses/suggestions.

Did you find anything in your google searches?

 

[Guest]

Dave,

Thanks for your time. Have not found any useful posts is this group. The
problem is getting worse since all these changes. Excel is unusable in this
state and I am forced to switch back to Quattro.

Regards,

Mike

 

[Lady Layla]

You said you had an older HP computer -- how much RAM does it have?

: Dave,
:
: Thanks for your time. Have not found any useful posts is this group. The
: problem is getting worse since all these changes. Excel is unusable in this
: state and I am forced to switch back to Quattro.
:
: Regards,
:
: Mike
:
: "Dave Peterson" wrote:
:
: > I don't have any other guesses/suggestions.
: >
: > Did you find anything in your google searches?
: >
:

 

[Guest]

I have had the same problem, but only since installing Windows XP.

 

[Guest]

Hi
Try to update the Video drivers this will resolve the issue.