Wireless mouse quits after a few minutes??

[cardiac]

I have a Compaq M2105US laptop (AMD 3400 - 1 gig mem, 200 gig HD) and a Micrsoft wireless optical USB mouse. After boot up, the mouse works fine for about 10 minutes then quits. The mouse is fine (Verified in another system), and I have tried another wireless optical notebook mouse (HP mouse), and it does the same thing. Must be a USB problem, no? What could be causing this? Driver problem? Bad motherboard?

If I shut it down and restart it, then it works again for about 10 minutes.

All other functions of the laptop work fine. I am at a loss with this.

Anyone have an idea?

Thanks,

Bob

 

[corkyg]

Have you checked the mouse battery?

 

[cardiac]

Yes, the battery is fine. Like I said above, I can put it on my desktop and it will work for hours. The HP mouse is brand new, with a brand new battery, and it does the same thing.

Bob

 

[mpilchfamily]

Sure sounds like a USB issue. This kind of thing can happen if the CMOS gets currupted. A simple reset on the CMOS can fix it but its often difficult to do that on a laptop. You may want to go into the bios and select restore default settings then reset any settings that need to be changed. If that doesn't work you'll need to figure out how to reset the CMOS on that unit.

 

[zagood]

Check power saving settings in OS.

In Vista:
Control Panel/Hardware Settings/Change power saving settings
On the power plan you have selected, click Change Settings
+ USB settings
+ USB selective suspend setting
- - Setting: Disabled

I don't remember the process in XP but I'm sure it's similar.

 

[cardiac]

Originally posted by: zagood
Check power saving settings in OS.

In Vista:
Control Panel/Hardware Settings/Change power saving settings
On the power plan you have selected, click Change Settings
+ USB settings
+ USB selective suspend setting
- - Setting: Disabled

I don't remember the process in XP but I'm sure it's similar.

I am at home now and my laptop is at the fire station, but I will check this. It has worked fine for 3 years now, and I haven't changed the settings, but you never know, right? Thanks for this idea....

Bob

 

[corkyg]

It does seem like a USB issue in the laptop. If nothing else, try a different USB port for the rsvr/xmtr. Seems like the port it uses is going to sleep or just powering off.

 

[cardiac]

Does the same thing no matter which port it is in......

Bob

 

[corkyg]

OK - does the mouse have a battery saving "sleep" setting? Can you try it with a powered USB hub?