Logitech MX1000 and External HD troubles

[ZeratulsAvenger]

I currently have a Lacie 80GB External Hard Drive that uses Firewire. I also have a Logitech MX1000 wireless mouse.

When I turn on the External HD my mouse goes completely haywire. It randomly jumps from the top to bottom of my screen, it won't recognize my clicks(I press but on the screen it acts as if I haven't), it moves all jittery and with no real understandable pattern--my cursor becomes a cricket on crack, if you will. :rolleyes:

I have tried resetting the mouse while the HD is one, no real luck. As soon as I turn off the HD, though, the mouse is fully functional and works like the dream that it is meant to work as.

Why does my Firewire HD make the mouse go crazy?

A remidy would be fantastic, as I would love to be able to back up my data on the 80GB Lacie since my last HD failed on me and the Lacie had a several month old version of all of my data... better then losing it all, but I would really like to be able to turn on the drive for weekly/bi-weekly updates without dealing with my mouse going crazy and several minutes of intense frustration.

Specs in my sig, thanks for any help...

[z3frog]

I had a jittery mouse before too. Mine was a Microsoft IntelliMouse Optical and it's driver would clash with the software of my Chinese writing pad. Thing were fine again when I uninstalled the driver for the mouse, but then I lost the functionality of the two side buttons on the mouse because I had reverted to using the generic Windows drivers.

Perhaps you could trying uninstalling the drivers for you mouse, and using the Windows drivers instead? That is, if you had actually installed a driver from Logitech.

[glc]

How close is the hard drive to the mouse and the receiver?

[ZeratulsAvenger]

No Logitech drivers installed.

Probably about 3-4 feet between the HD and the mouse reciever--more to the mouse.

[glc]

That drive or its cabling (or maybe even the Firewire card) must be putting out some RF that's driving the receiver or the mouse nuts.

[ZeratulsAvenger]

So by moving the mouse and reciever further away I might be able to reduce the chances of the mouse going on the fritz? Perhaps I will try that later.

Thanks.