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Mouse Moves By Its self

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by bellla Jan 7, 2003 last reply Jan 7, 2003

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On a WIN98 PC the mouse will move and drop down boxes will start appearing for no reason. Three(3) different mice have been tried. A virus scan has been preformed and no viruses where found.

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by hinrgman Jan 7, 2003

i would like to help but i need much more info than just your os. ie. make and model of mouse, computer, how much ram... etc.

by hinrgman Jan 7, 2003

Now that I have come back to my computer i see that it has all been covered already.

by bellla Jan 7, 2003

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by hinrgman Jan 7, 2003

i would like to help but i need much more info than just your os. ie. make and model of mouse, computer, how much ram... etc.

by bellla Jan 7, 2003

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by bellla Jan 7, 2003

It's a Dell Diminison, Dell Mouse, roll type 256mg ram

by dklippert Jan 7, 2003

Have you turned off Voice recognition?

by bellla Jan 7, 2003

I forgot all about that. It has happened before on another users computer. Thanks!

by cg it Jan 7, 2003

If the cat is laying around the keyboard [which most cats love to do while your working] the mouse WILL behave erratically trying to hide from the cat.

Kick the cat off the table. The mouse should then go back to normal.

by cg it Jan 7, 2003

seriously though is your mouse a wheel or optical? USB or PS/2? Erratic behavior can be as simple as lint and dirt build up inside the wheel mouse to a corrupted mouse driver. cleaning the ball and rollers on a wheel mouse or just reloading the mouse drivers will fix the problem. If you want to reload mouse drivers, delete the mouse via the Device Manager and let Windows rediscover the mouse. If you have a mouse driver disk, you can update the drivers, again via Device manager.

by bellla Jan 7, 2003

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by ann777 Jan 7, 2003

I've seen this sort of thing happen with computers near strong electromagnetic devices...

Do you have a microwave, television, etc. near the mouse? Is it possible that the floor is vibrating (near an elevator maybe)?

Recommend you move another known working computer to this location (or move this computer/mouse to another location) and see if the problem only occurs in that area or if it follows the computer.

If it's location specific... you need to troubleshoot the location. If it follows the computer/mouse, then I'd look for a bad mouse port on the computer.

by bellla Jan 7, 2003

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by wcp Jan 7, 2003

Boot to the Safe Mode.

If there?s no problem in the Safe Mode, then one of your hardware (HW) or drivers may be the culprit.
Take out all your PCI or ISA cards except the video card.
If the problem persists, make sure you update the video driver. Try a different video card if the problem is still there.
Then add one HW at a time to isolate the root of the problem. Update the driver or replace the card if necessary.

If all else fails, reinstall Windows.

by bellla Jan 7, 2003

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by kbud Jan 7, 2003

Sounds a lot like a Virus to me you stated that you checked the system for virus's you did not say witch virus protection program you are running and also is your scan pattern up to date you need to run the virus scan from safe mode that way everthing is not loaded and running

by bellla Jan 7, 2003

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by cglrcng9 Jan 7, 2003

Go to www.ebay.com...for about $12.00 shipped you can get a KEIO by KYE Systems optical mouse w/ a driver disk w/ the correct drivers. Actually Win98SE & greater have the correct drivers. You get rid of ever cleaning a ball & rollers while @ the same time can kiss that mouse pad goodbye.

Crap on the rollers & ball or bad internal swithes, will cause that kind of thing along w/ routing the mouse cable near other cables. (like power cables).

Good Luck.