I am going to have my boss take a look on Monday. I thought the wisdom of the internet could help me. I have a computer I just recently rebuilt. The reason I rebuilt it is I got a bigger hard drive for it. Plus it had been a couple of years since it had a fresh install. Since then I can’t use a USB mouse. My USB printer is fine and I was able to hook up my USB pen drive.
So Far I have Installed the Motherboard chipset drivers, USB Drivers, and flashed the Bios.
I have 3 different mice I have tried.(all work in other computers) I have an older Intellimouse 3.0, and MS Optical , and my travel mouse. (All USB) The travel mouse works the best but even sometimes after awhile it stops. The Intellimouse 3.0 when it doesn’t work will just show up in Device Manager. The MS Optical Mouse will show up and Device Manager will say Device cannot start (Code 10). Sometimes Windows will give me an error in the sys tray saying it had problems with my device. If I am able to click for more information it ID’s the mouse and suggests to reconnect it. And it informs me that if that doesn’t work to try and different device.
Now this is my USB on board the Motherboard. At this point I would say that the MB has a problem. Except, I installed a USB 2.0 card I had. It work fine for awhile then it went right in to the same behavior. So I have eliminated Any hardware issues, so it seems.
This leaves windows as the problem, though I haven’t a clue as to what. It is a new install, I could try a repair or maybe installing the SP2 again, I don’t know.