Mouse Acting Up

[toronado97]

The night before last I had a marathon session of WoW like I normally do on the weekends. I never turn my computer off, so I let it go to sleep, and I went to sleep. I logged back on the next afternoon, and lo! My mouse cursor is lagging all over the screen. The best way I can describe it is it's like when you open a program that uses a lot of CPU power, and as you're moving your mouse it gets kind of choppy. Sometimes it hangs in one spot, then continues moving. Sometimes it doesn't do it at all for thirty minutes at a time, then it will start back up again.

I have a Logitech G7 mouse, and a G15 keyboard. I've watched my CPU utilization at the desktop while this is happening and it sits at 0%. I have tried my girlfriend's G7 mouse to the same effect, and I tried my older Microsoft intellimouse explorer in a different USB port, and it still happens. That pretty much rules out hardware afaik, which means it has to be an issue inside windows. I downloaded the newest mouse drivers and it isn't fixed. I've run the newest version of AVG and come up with nothing. Adaware has nothing, Spybot has random tracking cookies showing up but that is all.

I did download and install a new version of Limewire the night this happened, as well as downloading a single MP3. This sounds like a virus to me, but I'm not getting processing spikes, or networking spikes. It's dancing around the latest definations of AVG, and I can't find anything out of the ordinary in taskmanager or cursory examinatinos of bootup .exes so I'm a bit at a loss here. I guess I can try Kasperky anti virus, but other than just burning the entire system down and starting from scratch I don't know what else to try. Since it might be a virus I can't even back up my important stuff to save for the reinstall.

Thus I bring it to you. If anyone has any ideas that I may not have explored here please let me know as I would like to get this fixed without having to burn Windows.

 

[LittleNemoNES]

You will learn to hate wireless mice like I have. I had an G7 and a Revolution -- they both suck. I'm getting a G5 ASAP.

 

[imported_Truenofan]

i've never had the problem with my mx1000 or my microsoft cheap-o packaged wireless mice.....have you closed down everything and checked if it still does this, have you gone into safe mode and checked if it does it in safe mode?

 

[toronado97]

It does it when nothing is open at all except for Rocket Dock. Oddly enough I can't get the computer to boot into safe mode. Maybe it's because the G15 is USB and it's not initializing until I hit the windows screen, but I can jump into bios by hitting delete on boot, so that's kind of wierd.

As far as problems with wireless mice...I've used my wireless Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer for four years without issue, and I've had the G7 for another two weeks without a problem. I don't think it being wireless is the problem, and there is nothing new to be interfering with the signals in any way.

 

[toronado97]

Just updating, Kaspersky came back with nothing. Adaware and Spybot are both clean. I'm out of ideas!

 

[toronado97]

Last update I guess before I nuke the HD. Booted into Safemode and the problem persists there. Downloaded the newest chipset drivers from Gigabyte, problem persists. Have run Mcafee, AVG, Kaspersky, and a friend of mine sent me a copy of his GeekSquad diagnostic utility and there's nothing on any of them.

I should also mention that it's not only the mouse cursor that is laggy. When the cursor is doing it's little hopstep routine, the entire mouse lags. Scroll wheel doesn't perform correctly, clicking buttons doesn't work correctly. Mind you it's doing it on three different mice, in different USB ports.

It's obviously a Windows problem, or a USB Controller problem on the mainboard itself, but given the lack of replies over the last few days it seems you're all as confused by it as I am.