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Win98 and optical USB mouse

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I have a few clients running Win98se with USB optical mouse. ON all these systems, the optical mouse will freeze for say 5 to 10 seconds, then work again, and now and then freeze completely.

Any idea on how to solve this problem. I tested with a regular PS/2 mouse, and when the USB one is freezing the regular one works fine.

However, I need to find a solution fo rusing the USB optical with Win98

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This MAY be your issue and solution here:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q240075

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Have you downloded specific Optical Mouse drivers fro Windows 98?

Most don’t REQUIRE drivers but they are still often available at the manufacturers website.

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Download the newest chipset drivers for the mainboards / PCs in question from the manufacturers site and install those. Do the same with system BIOS.

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does Borg need new batteries?

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try the above, and try this one too, get usb to ps/s converter, and try the optical with ps/s, ans see if this helps

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try the above, and try this one too, get usb to ps/s converter, and try the optical with ps/s, ans see if this helps

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