My Computer Woes….

[MetDream]

Back in March I got my new, fast computer with lots of ram, tons of HD, DVD burner the works. Towards the middle of June all of a sudden my mouse is just disabled. Rebooting would get it to work for a little bit but then it would just disable again. The computer guy took my computer, thought it might be the mother board, or maybe spyware since he had read about spyware that disabled the mouse. After doing some researching of Logiteck software for my tracking ball mouse, decided that it was software issues because of all the problems with the software being reported on their websites. So we decided to swap out brands and he sent the Logitch mouse back and got the computer to work with just a regular optical mouse.

He gives me back the computer the day before I leave to go camping and then go to Pahrump, (in the middle of nowhere) Nevada so I don’t even hook it up. Three weeks and a weekend later I hook up the computer, it works fine and dandy… for about 2 hours. Then bamn, the optical mouse disables. I reboot but no good the damn thing wont work. So off to the shop the computer goes again. The guy tries different fixes, even has techs from the parts distributer he got all the parts from look at it. They finally give up and change out the mother board.

So today I was supposed to get it back. But NO!!!!! The mouse is still disabling with the new (refurbished since it was a trade out after 90 days) motherboard. He is taking it back and having them give him a NEW motherboard. He says it has to be the motherboard that is causing the mouse to disable. But he is stumped and dismayed. Me too. This old clunker I’m using is slow and doesn’t burn dvds and is frustrating me!!! If it continues with the new motherboard. He is going to just give me my $$ back for the computer. But that sucks! I want my dang computer to just work right.

Any ideas to what would cause the mouse to continue to disable itself?

[Speed Damage]

What model Logitech mouse do you have?

[MetDream]

I dont remember, it was so long ago that he took it all back. It was a tracking ball mouse though. But the computer wont work with any mouse.

[sjmike]

have you tried using a non-logitech mouse or a regular trackball mouse? Is the mouse plugged into the PS/2 port on the back or via USB?

[MetDream]

Yeah. He tried all different kinds. He switched out the brands of the motherboards and got me a microsoft tracking mouse and gave the computer back to me yesterday. So far it seems to be running fine. We shall see.

[MetDream]

But alas I spoke too soon... now when the computer turns off, it doesnt turn back on right away. So now the guy and the store he got all the parts form think it is the case and power supply. So one more time, it is going back to the shop, and when I get it back it will practically be re-built, so hopefully it will work!!!!

Thank goodness for my trusty old clunker computer that I've had for over 6 years that just keeps clunking along at it's slow steady pace... and works!

[sorrowman]

Would you mind putting up the spec of your computer(Motherboard, CPU, Memmory, GRaphics card, Soundcard, HD's, optical drives (DVD-ROM/RW's), also don' forget to include the specs for the PowerSupply (PSU) brand, model etc (especially the 12V line(s) data* which is WAY important.

People tend to cut costs on the PSU and end up fu*king up the whole PC because of a crappy PSU that's being overloaded too long, then snaps, and takes the whole PC down the drain with it.

*there's this sticker on the PSU that says, among others, something like:
+12V1 - 17A
+12V2 - 18A

This is just an imgaginary example, just to give u a hinch of what it would look like.

[MetDream]

CSi M500z, AMD Mid Tower Comptuer
Antec SPC150 450 Wat Outpout Power Source (+5V +3.3V +12V +12V -2V +5V SB)
ADM Athlon 64 3700+ S939 Box Processor
MSI K8N Neo 4-F Mother board*
Crucial 4x512 Ram (512MB PC3200 DDR DIMM Memory)
Seagate 250GB SAT AII 7200PRM 8MB Hard Drive
Seagate 300GB SATA/150 16MB Hard Drive
Sony DVD RW Dual Layer
Sonny 1.44 MB Floppy
MSI 6200TC UP TO 265MB TV/DVI/2H PCI-E
Micorsoft Elite Natural PS2/USB Keyboard
Acer 17 IN TFT LCE 700:1 1280x1240 VGA DVI-D 8MS flat screen monitor (with the capability to hook up a 2nd one when I can afford to get it)
Microsoft Tracking Ball Mouse*

The system was orgianlly buitl with a ASRock939 Dual AGP=PCIE SAT A2 ULIM 1695 Mother Board and had a Logitech Premium Optical Wheel but both were replaced when I was having all these issues with the comptuer.

[Metallifold]

that's a good pc!

[MetDream]

that's a good pc!

Now that is works right... yeah.