Mouse hangs up - Windows 98

[AQR8]

Just found this site - it's great. I apprecite reading all the professional and helpful assistance. Now, my problem. I am running Windows 98 and my Microsoft Serial Mouse 2.0A freezes temporarily. The frequency of the freezes are approx 10 minutes or so and last for about 6-8 seconds (just enough to drive you nuts!) I've checked for conflicts, none. I've gone thru device manager and deleted, rebooted and let the P&P detect and install the latest driver. Nothing has worked...this did not happen with Win95. I have systematically eliminated each item in sys tray to see if there was something in background confusing the mouse. Got all the way down to explorer and sys tray, no difference. Time for a new mouse or is there something else to try?

[Susan]

Possible video problem? As a test to see, go to Ctrl Pnl/System/Performance/Graphics and turn down your acceleration a bit to see.

[AQR8]

Susan, I gave it a try. Unfortunately it did not do the trick. Thanks for the suggestion though.

[philipg]

Here's a suggestion. I'm running win98 in a computer that was out of the box plug in and use. Came with a ps/2 PNP mouse, That one did what your is doing know before win98 stopped seeing it all together. I replaced it and sure enough about 2 months later I have to replace it again. I'm getting sick of replacing mice under win98. Win95b never gave me this problem.

[StarWatcher]

Philipg-me too! I bought a new ps\2 PnP mouse in December. Last month it started freezing and flaking out. I got sick of trying to troubleshoot it and just went to Staples and got a Logitech on sale and it works fine.

Wonder what's going on?

[This message has been edited by StarWatcher (edited 06-10-99).]

[fishboy]

I think the feeling here is to buy a serial mouse

[MrEd]

Try this: Extract vmouse.vxd from win98 cd (It's in cab 48 I think) and put it in your C:\Windows\system folder. Then restart. See if that helps.

[AQR8]

philipg, fishboy and StarWatcher - the difficulty I'm having is with a serial mouse.

MrEd, I'll give your suggestion a try (when I get home) and let everyone know. Thanks.

[philipg]

AQR8,

I own two Logitech 3 button mice. One is on 486-66(used as a serial mouse with win95b) and my new one is K6-2/333(used as a PS/2 with win98). The 486's mouse is almost a year old and haven't had a problem with it. I honestly think cheap mice don't have a good life expectency. So I'll never buy anything but Logictech Products.

P.S. MrEd, no offense I already used your method with no good results before I purchased a new mouse. My bios allows for mouse use to make selections and the bios couldn't even see the mouse let alone use it when it did.

[Susan]

I've used the same Logitech PS/2 First Mouse+ since it first came out. Not a problem.

[MrEd]

Philipg-No offense taken. It was just a suggestion. Ever since I found out about those .vxd files not being loaded, I've been post happy about offering those options for certain problems. Oh, well.

-MrEd

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[Gentle Giant]

Have seen this problem - fixed by changing the IRQ setting in the BIOS for the mouse from Primary to Secondary > Award BIOS <
Im not that familiar with other BIOS and there configurations. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif