Mouse Problem

[Hillbilly]

My wife's P3 HP Pavilion came with Win98. A few years ago I installed ME, then about a year ago I upgraded the bios by downloading from HP and installed XP Home upgrade. The HP mouse went bad and I installed a USB optical mouse. She started complaining about the mouse "freezing". I changed to a PS2 ball mouse..no improvement. In fact I have tried 2 or 3 ball and optical rodents.

For example, when she starts OE the mouse curser is stuck for a few seconds to a minute or more. It may work a few times and clicks and then freeze again. When it is frozen the keyboard does work, and the left and right clicks will work but cursor will not move.

Any ideas?

[zack224]

right click (if you can) on my computer on the desktop>click manage>click on device manager are there any devices in there that have a yellow question mark? if so what are they? If there isn't any question marks or unsupported devices in there, then maybe when you flashed the bios it made the computer not recognize the correct usb drivers. You might want to flash the bios back to the orginal one. Did the mouse work like it was suppose to in Win98 before you flashed the bios? How about in ME? was it a usb mouse? You can also go out and buy an adapter that goes from usb to mouse ps/2 port. you would plug the cable in from the mouse into adapter and then into the orignal port that the mouse is suppose to plug into.