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USB mice hitch during HD activity

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Cat

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Do PS2 mice do this? I can't really remember, as I've been using the USB port for a few years. Even very brief hard drive access can cause the mouse to pause, and I think the SE Western Digital drives are even worse. StorageReview noted that they have high CPU usage.

Thoughts?
 
Originally posted by: Cat
Do PS2 mice do this? I can't really remember, as I've been using the USB port for a few years. Even very brief hard drive access can cause the mouse to pause, and I think the SE Western Digital drives are even worse. StorageReview noted that they have high CPU usage.

Thoughts?
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This is precisely the reason I do not use USB for keyboards and mice. I had a USB mouse for a while, but glitches like that annoyed me to no end.

We have dedicated ports for keyboards and mice, make use of them.

Plus with PS/2 you can use a 200 hz refresh rate.

🙂

Viper GTS
 
My USB MS Intellimouse Explorer has never ever had a single issues, its never skipped or anything... its always been flawless. And I use all 4 of my USB ports, Mouse, Joystick, HP Deskjet, UPS Thermal Printer.
 
It's not skipping. It will pause when there is high CPU or disk activity, happened on a wide range of systems.
 
I've experienced this before. When I noticed it, my sound would also skip. (ie: Winamp)

I later found out it was the Promise ATA133 controller that was in a PCI slot that was conflicting with something else.

You're not alone! 🙂
 
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