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USB problems on KG7-RAID

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Okay, I need some help here. I have a USB Optical Mouseman that for the last month or so has been acting very strangely. Its tracking has been erratic, and the speed of movement seems to decrease for no apparent reason. Worst of all, though, the blue light will sometimes flicker and then the mouse will lock up entirely. These lockups seem to correspond to a sudden increase in CPU usage: when I hit ctrl-alt-del, I see a spike going from 2-100%!
I'm becoming quite adept at getting around Windows using tabs because a good 75% of the time I am without a mouse! However, I have a suspicion that there's something wrong with my USB ports themselves, because the mouse works great on my girlfriend's laptop. Also, the last time I installed my USB printer, it worked for printing out the two pages that I needed then, but ever since then windows will randomly send this one document to the print queue again and again. Both of these problems continue to occur regardless of the port I have the devices connected to, and regardless of whether I use the 2 ports directly on the MB or the 2 expansion ports.
I have no idea why my USB would suddenly get all fussy on me; when this started, I hadn't made any changes to my hardware config and I wasn't aware of having done anything that could possibly have messed up the mobo. Originally I thought it was just a software problem that was the result of installing Creative Labs' crappy software (had to, I needed better input-recording device than Sound Recorder), but two HDD formats later, I still have the same problem. This is really aggravating me. I don't have any other USB or PS2 mice with me that I could use to test, unfortunately, because I just moved. The only possible explanation that I can think of besides my USB ports are just fried is that maybe it's a power issue, because I'm currently running 3 scsi devices and 3 ide drives in addition to my duron, audigy, video, etc. on a 300w power supply. This is my current config:

AMD Duron 600
Abit KG7-RAID
256 Crucial 2100 DDR
Savage4
SB Audigy
Actiontec modem
Adaptec 2940
Quantum Atlas 10k
Plextor 40x scsi
Sanyo 12/10/32 scsi
Maxtor 80 gig 7200
WD 120 SE
Liteon 16x DVD
USB Optical Mouseman
Antec 300w PS
Windows XP Pro (had the same problem under 2K)

Please help me out, I am nearing the end of my upgrade process, and it would really suck if after I finished getting all my new parts together next week my friggin mouse didn't work!
 
I had similar problems on my Microsoft optical wheelmouse. There was some kind of a defect and a recall on the mouse. I replaced it, and everything was fine. I wonder if optical mice have some type of longevity problem. My mouse was only 6 months old at the time. Just a thought.
 
Yeah, but like I said before, the mouse seems to work fine on a different computer. Today I tried a number of different things. I noticed that I had a lot of devices set to IRQ 5, the irq that the USB was using, so I moved things around until it was the only one left on that setting. No luck. Disabling the onboard RAID controller didn't help, either.

HELP!
 
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