Can a MS Mouse kill a motherboard?

[scotagne]

I got a MS Intellimouse explorer 4.0 from Alienware. It's comfortable and looks rad, but I was getting keyboard errors and a non-responding mouse for unknown reasons. I replaced the mobo and system drive and think the mobo was cheap and defective. Haven't used the MS mouse with my new rig, just an old school mouse. Thx un advance.

 

[BlueWeasel]

It's highly unlikely unless the MS mouse is defective (probably not the case).

 

[sirfergy]

Yes, if it is a PS/2 mouse it can fry the PS/2 port since PS/2 technically isn't hot swappable. My roomate in college blew out a motherboard that way.

 

[DeeKnow]

hmmm ... depends on how hard you smash the mouse into the board.... LOL sorry couldn't resist !

 

[Macro2]

RE:"Yes, if it is a PS/2 mouse it can fry the PS/2 port since PS/2 technically isn't hot swappable. My roomate in college blew out a motherboard that way"

No PS2 hotswapping!

 

[dnuggett]

Anything is possible, but highly unlikely in this case.

 

[lrmat]

i agree with deeknow, if you swing it by the tail hard enough you can do damage to the mobo ;-)

 

[barnett25]

Im not sure about frying the motherboard, but I have fried a mouse before. I had just built my first PC, and it had front USB connections. I hooked my USB mouse up to one of these ports, but the computer refused to post. I finally discovered that I had hooked the front USB headers up backwards, which fried the mouse and prevented the computer from posting.