Mouse pauses then I hear two beeps. What is this?

[MarklarMarklar]

Like the title says, I'll be moving the mouse then it will suddenly stop and immediately after I will hear two separate beeps. Each beep has an up and down, or high and low, kind of sounds like do-dut, do-dut. After the sounds play the mouse goes back to normal. Sometimes, I will go a whole day without hearing this or it will happen in rapid succession 3 or 4 times. This started happening maybe 3 or 4 weeks ago. Any ideas? What further info do you need?

 

[amdskip]

System specs, got all the windows updates? No spyware on the system or anything?

 

[MarklarMarklar]

Athlon XP mobile 2400
A7N8X Deluxe
2x512 MB Corsair 3200 xms
80 & 120 GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 Sata
9700 Pro
Audigy2
Logitech mx500 and Logitech Cordless Access KB
Antec Trupower 430

Adaware and Spybot say everything is clean. Norton AV turns up nothing, I also tried a few online virus scanners from trend micro and panda. Windows XP is fully updated. The only recent changes were the addition of 512mb ram but the problem started after that.

Some more details that might help. The mouse seemed to be dying on me in games and would completely freeze up in games. I figured the ps2 port was going out, so I moved the mouse from the ps2 port to a usb connection and the mouse stopped dying completely but started with the new problem. When the problem continued I ran norton and it found and deleted a downloader trojan virus which is the first virus I've ever actually found. After it continued I decided to do a complete reinstall. I low-level formatted both drives twice using the seagate utilities and then reinstalled. The problem continues but norton doesn't turn up anything. Any ideas?

 

[amdskip]

I would guess a bad motherboard here.

 

[JW310]

Originally posted by: amdskip
I would guess a bad motherboard here.

Tough to say that it's the motherboard that's bad if he hasn't tried another mouse on the system. If the mouse was giving problems using both the PS2 and USB connections, I'd be more likely to believe that it's the mouse that's starting to go.

Try another mouse on your system, and see if it gives you the same problems.

JW