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mouse stops working in Windows 98

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by tar12 1 view

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I have a computer with W98SE and a logitech wheel mouse. Started with the mouse in the PS2 port. If the power went out or the computer sat for a few days the mouse would appear to lose its drivers and not work. Upon reboot would have to reinstallthe mouse drivers from the disk. Changed to a USB mouse, Logitech wheel, loaded the drivers, works for a while, then mouse gets jerky and stops working. Again, have to reload the drivers to get it to work again. Any suggestions of what could be wrong?

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by mdelyea

I had a similar problem with a PS/2 mouse and 98se with a ASUS CUV4X motherboard. The problem went away after upgrading the BIOS. See if you can find your motherboard model and try locating an update for your BIOS.

by tar12

Found the motherboard bios upgrade and installed it. Worked great. Thanks for the insight.

by mike (from canada)

you have a virus, your mouse is clogged up inside, your hard drive is screwed up (use scandisk to fix that), or you are using a wireless mouse that ran out of battery power.

by fossil

Please "REJECT" this --
I don't have an answer, but I was glad to see you reject the crap that "pc NO help canada" gave you. Guy should shoot himself so his genes can't spread like the crappy advice he keeps spewing.

by diabetic

Tammi:

This may be a shot in the dark, but you didn't indicate the age of your computer. If it is more than one year old, there is always the remote possibility that your CMOS battery has died. this can cause all sorts of non-obvious problems.Replacement batteries are pretty inexpensive. Open your case, use a flashlight to spot the quarter-sized battery and read the battery type off of the top. then go to Radio Shack or someplace like that and get a replacement.

When you have the replacement, pop out the old battery and slip in the new one. First time you reboot it should take you into BIOS SETUP. Once in, just exit and save all changes. That will store the updated settings in CMOS.

Like I said, this is a long-shot, but it isan inexpensive fix.

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