Mouse freezes, very odd.

Rend

So I have been having this problem for about a month now, here's the symptoms:

Occasionally my mouse will stop moving or responding to clicks or button presses. As soon as I press any key on the keyboard, the mouse cursor will teleport to the position it is supposed to be (from movement after it froze) and will commence working normally, until this problem comes back.

Sometimes it is very frequent (every couple of seconds) and sometimes not so (I can go entire sessions without noticing).

It is not:
1) My mouse. I have tested it on other machines, and it performs exemplary.
2) My mouse drivers, they are updated, twice now.

It's worth it to note that my keyboard is very old, and my computer is a bit old, but not so much. It can run most games out on the market right now just fine (WAR, source engine, etc). Anyone have any clues?

brandotheninjamaster

is this a wired or wireless mouse?

Rend

Wired mouse, also a laser mouse (not optical, laser)

brandotheninjamaster

Which USB port are you plugging this into (one the goes straight to the mobo or one that originates from another device)?

Rend

I'm not sure. I only have 4 of them in the back, and they're all right next to each other, I'm not quite certain if all 4 lead directly to the motherboard, but I'm pretty sure they do. I built the computer myself about 2-3 years ago, so the construction is nothing too complex.

And it has the same behavior no matter which port I use.

brandotheninjamaster

Rend wrote: »

I'm not sure. I only have 4 of them in the back, and they're all right next to each other, I'm not quite certain if all 4 lead directly to the motherboard, but I'm pretty sure they do. I built the computer myself about 2-3 years ago, so the construction is nothing too complex.

And it has the same behavior no matter which port I use.

I'm stretching with this a little here, but maybe its your USB drivers. If you don't have the disk that originally came with your mobo, you should be able to pull some from the board's site.

Other then that I can't really think of anything...

proXimity

It's probably some other software on your computer that's causing it. Anything new you added around the time you started having the problem? I'd hate to suggest something as drastic as reinstalling the OS just for this, but that'd probably solve the issue.

Rend

You're probably right. What I can't figure out for the life of me is what the keyboard has to do with all this. Nothing restores my mouse except a keystroke of any kind, even something benign like shift or ctrl will do it.