mouse pointer problems

[perkster]

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!

[ski]

Did you disconnect the CRT monitor to see if that fixed things?
If it does not, then see if the problem happens in Safe mode. If it does not, then do a clean boot to troubleshoot it:
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;310353
If that does not help, then do a system restore to a date when the mouse pointer worked normally.
The last resort is to do a repair install.

[glc]

Analyze your running processes. I'd suspect you have something running in the background that's tying up the system.

[perkster]

GLC, if it was always busy pointer i would suspect the same as you, but surely that would be the same no matter which monitor the pointer was on? but its not always the busy pointer it is any random pointer.

thanks for ideas ski, ill try those out tonight to see if they help

EDIT: ill also disconnect that 2nd monitor to see if that is causing issue