Windows xp usb mouse problems

There is a company that still sets up XP machines? You are still using XP machines? Thai Pepper. Craig Weston This person is a verified professional.

Please tell me there is a critical business need to still run XP? Just to reanswer some questions that are in the original post: Peripherals do work, just not after XP starts loading up, so it looks like an OS issue. Pure Capsaicin. DragonsRule This person is a verified professional.

AceOfSpades This person is a verified professional. Maybe something else besides the power supply was damaged. Jacorbello This person is a verified professional. Boot from the disk and run a repair on Windows. It's always worked for me, not only on the boot up, but in other applications that freeze or temporarily disable the mouse. I have yet to try v Anyway, Ted writes:. I would start by disabling accessory mouse features then see if the lockups still occur at startup. If that isn't the problem, try using the generic windows mouse driver.

You could also create a bootlog. On the other hand, try using the latest mouse driver offered by your manufacturer, as John M states:. I use a Logitech trackball and temporarily cured the problem with frequent re-installing. The final solution was to ensure that the very latest driver was installed. I am now trouble free for six months plus.

Any ideas? This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. Samhrutha G. You need Windows XP installation disc to complete a repair install. How satisfied are you with this reply?

Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. In reply to Samhrutha G's post on July 6, Had a post typed up and when I went to preview it the website logged me out--why is that? Typed this up in Wordpad before pasting into Reply box in case it gets lost again Anyway, here is the gist of what I was trying to include in this post that was lost Took out card with two telephone ports and later found out card did not have a Ethernet port--it was a black drawing of a Telephone and in this lighting it looked like a dark shape of Ethernet port When restarting computer I noticed the normal light lit on the USB Keyboard and then it went out just before the Windows Install process picked up where it left off The Laser light on the bottom of the USB Mouse was also lit right up until the point where the same Driver needed screen pops up and then the Laser light goes out.

Sort of a very time consuming backup plan if there was no mouse to pci card and I had days of time before the computer was needed! OK, I am getting delirious now--so time for some sleep.

I hope my ramblings help future readers in a similar situation and I want to thank the previous posters for their help too! I had to do this manual copy process 2 or 3 times--each time booting the computer up with a Boot CD when a specific Driver file was requested When you start up the computer the Windows Repair setup process starts back up and continues where it left off and might possibly halt again with another Driver request screen I do not remember where I found a copy of the requested Driver file but it might have been found with a full search of the hard drive and it was residing in a different folder possibly a Windows Update folder location.

There are also a bunch of diagnostic and repair programs included that can be used for almost any repair situation. Please refrain from mentioning or linking pirated or otherwise illegal software. Please read the rules.

OK, sorry about mentioning a specific Boot CD by name especially one with copyrighted software-I should know better. I just wanted to help those that are unfamiliar with Boot CDs There are plenty of Boot CDs out there that do not contain any copyrighted programs If I mark this thread as 'Solved'--will it still stay open to future posts until the thread is locked from inactivity?

Yes, it will be postable until archived. But you can always request a closed post to be reopened, or a solved post to be unsolved, too. One other possible solution besides the Boot CD copy method three posts above is to locate a copy of the requested Driver file and copy it to a Rewritable CD and put it in the CD tray when prompted and 'maybe' the Repair Install will see the file, load it and continue with the rest of the setup or until another missing Driver file is needed.

I have not tried this, so I cannot confirm if this alternative method might work Another thing I observed is that I had another Windows Driver prompt come up during another Windows Repair installation today.

The first screen photo below shows a request for an Installation Disk. When I pressed the CD tray open button and then closed the tray with the same Windows XP SP2 Install CD--it gave me a slightly different Windows Driver request screen now telling me the exact name of the Driver file needed So you might have to pop the CD tray open and then close it to see the exact name of the Driver file needed when the message screen updates itself Two photos to follow once I post them showing slight difference in Driver prompt messages.

This first photo is the first version of the Driver request window that came up asking for a specific install CD. As Seen On. Welcome to Tech Support Guy!