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Fan Area => The Hydlaa Plaza => Topic started by: Tuutob on August 04, 2005, 05:31:38 pm

Title: my optical mouse is the devil
Post by: Tuutob on August 04, 2005, 05:31:38 pm

I\'m not kidding, this is scary as hell. I\'ve walked into my computer room like 3 times to see that my optical mouse is moving all by itself. I have come t the conclusion that it is not a hacker, because it just does loop-de-loops instead of trying to access files. Does anyone else who has an optic mouse havethis problem?

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Post by: Kwip on August 04, 2005, 05:50:20 pm

Well my optical mouse is not possesed (or at least it wasn\'t the last time I had a priest in to check) though it does seem to like dancing when it thinks no one is around.   Of course I have to expect stuff like that since it is a MS mouse and we all know MS trains their mice to do weird things.

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Post by: steuben on August 04, 2005, 05:55:21 pm

if my mouse was moving all by itself, hackers would not be the first thing that would come to my mind. i\'d check for strings first...

unless you are refering to the actual mouse pointer on the screen. but, it does remind me of a story i heard once. the mouse doesn\'t happen to be wireless does it?

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Post by: Efflixi Aduro on August 04, 2005, 06:17:47 pm

My friends mouse randomly decides to start going up. Though trying to access files?
/me thinks this is some stupid virus

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Post by: DaveG on August 04, 2005, 09:19:15 pm

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Originally posted by Tuutob
my optical mouse is the devil

I must compliment you on one of the best thread titles, ever.  :P

My optical mice do this too.  I think it\'s just that they\'re too sensitive, and think they\'re moving sometimes when they\'re not...

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Post by: fken on August 04, 2005, 10:03:04 pm

first of all, drop your mouse on a plane unicolor surface.

then be sure the battery are not empty

Finally is it a ps/2 mouse ?
-> I had the problem on the 2.6 kernel of linux on my laptop: I had 2 ps/2 mouse (touchpad + real physical ps/2 mouse) and the kernel had sometimes problems with the mouse cursors...

if you have an adaptater try to put your mouse on the usb port.

Is the problem solved?

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Post by: aza on August 04, 2005, 10:39:59 pm

Use superglue, maybe then the mouse stops!!!1 ;)

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Post by: davo on August 06, 2005, 04:22:58 pm

ahh common problem

make sure that your mouse is not on a shiney desk or surface becuase the laser relfects and breaks up badly and goes back into the mouse all wanked up.

try using a white peice of non glossy paper and see if it happens ?

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Post by: leji on August 10, 2005, 01:56:55 am

or put it in a bowl of holy water for a few hours, then  crush it with a silver hammer, and burn it in holy flames, it should be alright then :)

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Post by: Sikarda on August 10, 2005, 09:19:49 am

If it is an Apple Optical mouse, then get something else. I use Mac gear, but have had that trouble with their mice also, ended throwing two of them away, one was fairly new too. I\'m back to a $29(NZ) right/left click, scroll, \'ball\' mouse. Cheap, nasty and mint. NP\'s. :)

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Post by: fken on August 10, 2005, 11:22:28 am

I am sure it\'s not a problem anymore...
-> he stops posting so maybe we fund what he needed and solved his problem...

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Post by: odd2k on August 10, 2005, 03:31:27 pm

Or maybe the mouse got him.. argh!

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Post by: Jossh_ Luora on August 12, 2005, 06:09:05 am

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Originally posted by leji
or put it in a bowl of holy water for a few hours, then  crush it with a silver hammer, and burn it in holy flames, it should be alright then :)

i tried that once.


my mouse got out of the bowl and chraged me. it had rabies. then i smashed it with a hammer. my room smelled like rat poo for days.