Mouse Freezing in Windows XP Pro

[Guest]

My Windows XP Pro system has been workig well for over 1 year. I do regular
updates of OS and drivers. Within the last month my mouse has started to
intermittently freeze up and stop responding for about a second or two
several times every minute and sometimes it locks up entirely and I have to
reboot to temeproarily fix it. I think that it is a recent Windows Update
that broke it. I have the latest mouse driver. I has unistalled all the
software that I can. I have turned off or terminated as may 3rd party
applications and it still does it. Seem some process is doing some high
priority activity for 1-2 sec and pre-empting mouse tasks. How can I find out
waht is blocking my mouse? How can I fix it. It is a Logitech optical mouse
with a USB connection.

 

[Ted Zieglar]

What happens when you use a different mouse?

 

[christian_delarge]

I have excactly the same problem. My Logitech MX 300 mouse freezes for
second or two. This happens many frequently. I have Windows XP Home.
Problems started yesterday and it is really annoying expecially when I
try to play some games. Does anyone know what causes this?

I didn't have this problem until yesterday and I would have noticed it
since I play 3d games every day.

 

[christian_delarge]

I updated my graphics card drivers and mouse hasn't got frozen after
that. I have Radeon X800XL graphics card.

 

[christian_delarge]

Problem started again after few days I updated the graphics card
drivers. Don't know solution. Anyone?

 

[Guest]

Problem started again after few days I updated the graphics card
drivers. Don't know solution. Anyone?

I am having the same exact problem. Why is it noone can give a solution.

I actually got so mad that i reformatted my hard drive and re-installed
windows. It didnt fix it. I'm using a HP optical mouse. I tried using a
regular mouse and the cursor rolled around by itself. Plugged my optical back
in and it doesnt roll. I found one thing that temporarily works and seems
very odd. I use CCleaner and it makes it stop freezing for a few hours
anyway.

 

[Yves Leclerc]

I actually got so mad that i reformatted my hard drive and re-installed
windows. It didnt fix it. I'm using a HP optical mouse. I tried using a
regular mouse and the cursor rolled around by itself. Plugged my optical back
in and it doesnt roll. I found one thing that temporarily works and seems
very odd. I use CCleaner and it makes it stop freezing for a few hours
anyway.

Locate, download and install the correct motherboard chipset drivers. These
should contain the correct IRQ control routines.

 

[Guest]

Having the same problem since a week now. Looking through the discussion
newsgroups it seems to be quite a common problem. It would be great if
somebody at Microsoft could come up with a procedure to do a fix and describe
it in enough detail for us "illiterates" to actually follow it.

Like where do I find the "correct" motherboard chipset drivers? How do I
install them without screwing up the rest of my system. It is alienating to
me that 7 months after I bought this machine trouble starts and I am unable
to get techsupport to do it under warranty.

Thanks for any pointer to help on this.

Milagro

 

[Guest]

I had to switch back to a wired mouse and keyboard. Havn't found the answer
yet.
If I find out how to find the chipset drivers I will let you know. I did
find graphic drivers. Didn't help this problem though.
Jerry