perkster
11-19-2007, 09:52 AM
on my fiances rig, specs in sig..
problem is that the mouse pointer will constantly change to either the white glove, busy indicator, two arrows (up and down as though you are resizing something) ot other random pointer icon when nothing is happening.
Now the interesting thing is the computer has two screens attached to the NVIDIA 8600 one through native DTI is the samsun 226BW and this is the primary monitor in windows. The second is old 17" CRT monitor connected through VGA to DVI connector.
Now the mouse will be wrong and problematic on the main monitor but the minute you move it on to the secondary screen it goes back to how it should be.
At first i figured it may be the cheap mouse i had, so I went to PC world and bought a new PC-line mouse, now that isnt a great brand either but is standard USB mouse, didnt come with any CD or driver. didnt make any difference.
So next I think its a driver issue, try to update online or get windows to try another driver no luck, so i remove the mouse completely from device manager and restart so driver gets reinstalled. No change, and web based driver checking utilities tell me that my HUD compliant mouse driver is the latest one. And that wouldnt explain it working on one screen and not another.
So besides disconnecting the 2ndary monitor (the CRT one) incase the use of two monitors is an issue, or buying a more expensive mouse that comes with a CD and its own software for control panel i am not sure what else to try?
has anyone seen anything like this before? i think it was caused when my fiance wanted to change the pointers to yellow ones, but when issues happened she reset to default but didnt seem to fix the issue. I guess a reinstall of windows might fix it but dont want to do that!
problem is that the mouse pointer will constantly change to either the white glove, busy indicator, two arrows (up and down as though you are resizing something) ot other random pointer icon when nothing is happening.
Now the interesting thing is the computer has two screens attached to the NVIDIA 8600 one through native DTI is the samsun 226BW and this is the primary monitor in windows. The second is old 17" CRT monitor connected through VGA to DVI connector.
Now the mouse will be wrong and problematic on the main monitor but the minute you move it on to the secondary screen it goes back to how it should be.
At first i figured it may be the cheap mouse i had, so I went to PC world and bought a new PC-line mouse, now that isnt a great brand either but is standard USB mouse, didnt come with any CD or driver. didnt make any difference.
So next I think its a driver issue, try to update online or get windows to try another driver no luck, so i remove the mouse completely from device manager and restart so driver gets reinstalled. No change, and web based driver checking utilities tell me that my HUD compliant mouse driver is the latest one. And that wouldnt explain it working on one screen and not another.
So besides disconnecting the 2ndary monitor (the CRT one) incase the use of two monitors is an issue, or buying a more expensive mouse that comes with a CD and its own software for control panel i am not sure what else to try?
has anyone seen anything like this before? i think it was caused when my fiance wanted to change the pointers to yellow ones, but when issues happened she reset to default but didnt seem to fix the issue. I guess a reinstall of windows might fix it but dont want to do that!