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IBM Thinkpad Erratic Mouse Behavior!!

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by lee

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I have had many IBM Thinkpads (TP) (x40, x41, r40) and it has occured on all models, in addition I have colleagues that experience intermittent issues with their IBM TP's; where the mouse curser/pointer slams down to the lower right side of the screen and bugs-out with clicks and movement. It has gotten to a point where it occurs 1:3 times I use IE 6 and 7. When it occurs, it completely hinders the laptop!

I opened a case with IBM not too long ago and they basically said, if it doesnt happen in safe-mode then its not our problem.

Is anyone else experiencing this and/or have a solution?

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by pjdelsh007

Just saw your post, I have the same problem. I have found the cause: McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8i. Whenever it updates itself with a new DAT, the cursor jumps to the lower right for the duration of the update.

Have you learned anything about this?
-PJ
pjdelsh007 AT hotmail

by jplzz

I have similar issue to the one posted here. I have Symantec on my machine.

by steak1986

I work at unc and recently got an X41, from a staff memeber, it does the smae thing. I use symantec corporate, so it cant be a A/V issue. I had the keyboard and mouse replaced, and it wasnt a hard ware issue. I had the laptop reformatted, done by another IS team so it could just be an image, and am still having the problem. Hope this helps.

by pjdelsh007

Everytime Mcafee did an auto update for it's DAT, the mouse would go nuts.

I updated to the latest McAfee VirusScan 8.5 patch 3 and the issue went away.

by jplzz

Is it possible your ThinkPad is seeing two mice. You would need to delete one of them. I hope it gets better for you! I wonder if the T61 has this issue. The x40 was written up as Editors Choice in WIRED Test! I have a T60 and am having the uncontrollable scrolling issue; wow, getting mice out of my house is easier than resolving this issue. Have you had any feedback of progress from IBM/Lenovo? They got to be working on it.

by saildestiny

I have this problem, but only when connected to the GPS in my Sailboat (USB input via a Serial to USB adapter). It appears that the GPS strings are being interpreted as advanced TouchPad commands. How can I change the settings on the TouchPad to act like a simple 2 button mouse?

by saildestiny

I got this behavior to stop by disabling as many of the extra TouchPad and TrackPoint features as I could find in Ctl Panel/Mouse/UltraNav and it stops! It however resets something upon boot and starts all over again. Does anyone know of a generic PS2 mouse driver that could be substituted for the Synaptic driver?

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