Mouse Stopped Working

[geokilla]

For some reason, any mouse I connect to my old Pentium 4 computer suddenly decides to stop working. They are both optical mice, one of them a Microsoft Comfort Optical Mouse 3000, while the other is a Logitech laptop mouse.

When I'm booting up the computer, the red light on the Microsoft mouse lights up, then as soon as I enter the Windows XP splash screen and get past that, the red light goes off and the mouse doesn't work. As for the Logitech mouse, the red light stays on even when I get to the Windows XP log in page, but again, the mouse doesn't respond.

Now the weird thing is that the mouse was working fine 1 hour earlier. Now, it just stopped.

 

[Rifter]

are they usb mice? did you try them in a differnt port?

 

[mpilchfamily]

Sounds like a currupted CMOS to me. Clear the CMOS and everything should be fine. If not then the motherbaord may be having some problems.

 

[geokilla]

Originally posted by: Rifterut
are they usb mice? did you try them in a differnt port?

I have tried using them in all the USB ports on the Pentium 4 computer, as well as using them on my laptop. On the laptop, the mouse works fine.

Originally posted by: mpilchfamily
Sounds like a currupted CMOS to me. Clear the CMOS and everything should be fine. If not then the motherbaord may be having some problems.

Could a dying power supply cause this as well?

The computer is a Pentium 4 @ 1.5Ghz with 256MB RAMBUS. You can probably guess how old the computer is.

Edit: I tried to find the clear CMOS thing on the motherboard, but I couldn't find it so I just removed the battery. When I went into the BIOS, the date and time had to be entered again. I checked the mouse while I was in the BIOS and the red light was indeed on. Boot into Windows then it goes off.

Ok now for some reason, out of the blue, the mouse responds again.

 

[zagood]

sometimes it requires a restart to detect a USB mouse, or even plugging it into the same USB port it was plugged into before. A quick fix can also be to unplug it and plug it into another USB port (after OS has loaded), forcing auto-detection.

 

[geokilla]

Originally posted by: zagood
sometimes it requires a restart to detect a USB mouse, or even plugging it into the same USB port it was plugged into before. A quick fix can also be to unplug it and plug it into another USB port (after OS has loaded), forcing auto-detection.

I've restarted the computer and re-inserted the mouse into the USB ports around 10 times in 2 days before it suddenly decided to work again. Pretty weird.