Posessed mouse

Saruman · 14-02-2002 11:33am #1

OK this is weird... I worked in one company until recently.. and every now and again i would take my hand off my mouse to type and sometimes the cursor would run amok and move across the screen (any application) and then sort of settle down but still move slightly! Im now in a different company with different computer and different mouse (same type of mouse though.. MS intellipoint wheel mouse!) and the same sh!t is happening..

Anyone else notice this kind of behavior? Only answer if you were sober at the time please and no its not a hacker or some crap like that.. it stops once i touch the mouse..

Im wondering could it be some kind of static discharge from my hand or some weird thing like that?

EvilGeorge · 14-02-2002 11:39am

Yeah in my last company mine use to do some weird stuff too but its fine here.

Maybe its just your ora - your projection is distorting that around you !

Saruman · 14-02-2002 11:42am

You leave my Aura out of this...

yop · 14-02-2002 11:49am

I had the same thing, I cut the cable and the mouse, soon stopped it
Problem is that i cannot use my mouse, it is a Gateway...EvilGeorge will my boot disk help??

Saruman · 14-02-2002 11:57am

hehe...

Occidental · 15-02-2002 12:42pm

Have seen this happen to IBM Thinkpads amongst others. On laptops it was the keyboard pointing device recallibrating itself and would stop after a few seconds (this still happens with an external mouse attatched to the laptop). If it's a desktop, what's the make and model?

Saruman · 15-02-2002 12:44pm

as i said its a desktop pc with MS intellipoint wheel mouse! The model of PC is a Gateway E3200 in both cases.

EvilGeorge · 15-02-2002 12:45pm

I'll boot disk up your ass!

Saruman · 15-02-2002 12:53pm

Eh im not that kind of huy.. look you obviously have serious questions about your sexualty from other threads so keep your floppy disk to yourself and i dont want nothing to do with your hard disk!

EvilGeorge · 15-02-2002 12:54pm

Do you have dreams about queer cyborgs ?

strat · 15-02-2002 1:02pm

EvilGeorge thou art a muppet...

Yeah in my last company mine use to do some weird stuff too but its fine here.

Maybe its just your ora - your projection is distorting that around you !

I'll boot disk up your ass!

Do you have dreams about queer cyborgs ?

Stop posting crap

Saruman · 15-02-2002 1:07pm

Yeah what StrataGIST said!

seamus · 15-02-2002 1:16pm

First proper reply to the topic :rolleyes:

Keep an eye on your phone. Someone had posted here before who had noticed some strange movement every time the mobile rang. Seems possible. Some mobiles have serious interference. MY bro's ericcsson makes the buzzy noise in my speakers from the other side of the house!!! I'm quite scared of it

Inspector Gadget · 15-02-2002 1:50pm

...does the mouse actually move, or is it just the pointer? (Sometimes the cables drape in a specific way at the back of my desk and the mouse just takes off away from me when I let go of it - I had to resort to taping the cable down!)

Also:
Optical or Ball mouse?
PS/2 or USB?

Gadget

EvilGeorge · 15-02-2002 2:07pm

StrataGIST unfortunately you dont have the pleasure of knowing Saruman, you would understand if you did - trust me.

Saruman · 15-02-2002 2:11pm

Evilgeorge your not making sense...

back on topic...

Gadget.. the mouse pointer moves.. not the mouse.. in all cases they are PS/2 and its not the cable.. they are secure.. Dont know what causes it.. oh and its a ball mouse! Your standard intellipoint wheel mouse.

Samson · 15-02-2002 2:20pm

Saruman,

I have this very problem at home with the same type of mouse (MS intellimouse mechanical, with Gateway badge).
It must be a bug of some sort, or maybe cheap sh!t potentiometers in them.
My usual remedy is to give it a good bang off the desk, it gets te message and behaves.

I sometimes get a "no mouse found" message when windows boots.
Do you ever get that ?

Saruman · 15-02-2002 2:30pm

No my mouse is always found.. and always works.. it stops moving once i so much as touch it!

maybe there are tiny mocroscopic creatures living in these mice that move and the ball then moves on the mouse but the mouse itself stays still? no? feir enough...

DiscoStu · 15-02-2002 2:57pm

wierd i have that problem with my mouse to. it even happens with my nice new ms optical mouse. must be a problem with some gateways.

Shred · 15-02-2002 3:11pm

My usual remedy is to give it a good bang off the desk

then-

I sometimes get a "no mouse found" message when windows boots.

mmm...I wonder why......:rolleyes:

Fidelis · 15-02-2002 3:30pm

I get that the odd time aswell with my mouse, Intelli ball-mouse from Gateway. Haven't a clue what it could be.

Saruman · 15-02-2002 3:31pm

tee hee..

Occidental · 15-02-2002 3:37pm

Explanations given by Microsoft, which they say have been found to cause the problem.

Faulty Serial/Mouse port.
Faulty Mouse
Vibration on desk surface.

Gateway will deny the first, Microsoft will deny the second and desks, well they just never give you an answer.

koneko · 15-02-2002 3:49pm

If ur in a company/office it might be mobile phones alright. The buggers cause a lot of interference. Wobbling onscreen, mainly the cursor, or text.

Saruman · 15-02-2002 3:53pm

only happens in work actually.. but mobiles not going off at the time.. and when they do i cant see i ever noticed it

Inspector Gadget · 15-02-2002 4:37pm

...it doesn't sound like a mechanical problem (clogged wheels, dirty rollers etc.), and it doesn't sound like it's a fault in the actual mouse... what kind of equipment do you have that transmits on radio frequencies? The mobile phone avenue has been explored, but have you other equipment, such as wireless TV extenders, FM cordless headphones, a microwave oven (?) that sort of thing, near the PC?

Have you the subwoofer from your sound system (assuming your PC has one) on your desk?

Curiouser and curioser...
Gadget

EvilGeorge · 15-02-2002 4:43pm

There is an issue on some Gateway laptops where a ms/wheel mouse is plugged into the ps/2 port the pointer will jump erratically all over the screen.

Is there a difference between the ms/wheel drivers and the ones used by windows (I know the obvious they are the same company) but why do they have a seperate driver pack ?

Outofit · 15-02-2002 4:52pm

Humn , I wonder does it have anything to do with Evilgeorge being under the desk giving Saruman a blowjob and accidentally moving the mouse cable ?? It's as probable as everything else thats been said ?

Saruman · 15-02-2002 4:57pm

Outofit you dont know me very well do you... you are not who you claim to be... you are confused and have serious issues...

You are...

Outofit · 15-02-2002 5:03pm

Wow , that hit the button , I don't hear Evilgeorge complaining ? Oh sorry I forgot , he's to busy under the desk !:p

Saruman · 15-02-2002 5:06pm

Surely you could do something better with your Day off! Im sure you have better things to do shmoogan

EvilGeorge · 15-02-2002 5:08pm

So you're becoming a full nerdy basterd now signing in from home - we only do this at work to keep the bordem factor down.
Dont get your keys too sticky on your day off!

Outofit · 15-02-2002 5:09pm

?? I'm now lost ?

Saruman · 15-02-2002 5:10pm

Yup we allready know you are having strange fantasies about Evilgeorge under the desk

Saruman · 15-02-2002 5:11pm

Originally posted by Outofit
?? I'm now lost ?

I see.. cant help you there...

Outofit · 15-02-2002 5:16pm

?? I'm now lost ?

Saruman · 15-02-2002 5:22pm

Originally posted by Outofit
Wow , that hit the button , I don't hear Evilgeorge complaining ? Oh sorry I forgot , he's to busy under the desk !:p

This is not how to stay a member of the boards.. especially for a NOO-B

This is what happens

SHAMAN · 15-02-2002 5:23pm

Originally posted by Saruman
OK this is weird... I worked in one company until recently.. and every now and again i would take my hand off my mouse to type and sometimes the cursor would run amok and move across the screen (any application) and then sort of settle down but still move slightly! Im now in a different company with different computer and different mouse (same type of mouse though.. MS intellipoint wheel mouse!) and the same sh!t is happening..

Anyone else notice this kind of behavior? Only answer if you were sober at the time please and no its not a hacker or some crap like that.. it stops once i touch the mouse..

Im wondering could it be some kind of static discharge from my hand or some weird thing like that?

Only 0.01 percent of the population have this power.It's kinda cool ie.yuo can kill someone while shaking their hand,switch tv channels without the remote etc. It has something to do with an abnomal amount of electricity in their nerves.

Saruman · 15-02-2002 5:26pm

Thats right SHAMAN all shall bow down and serve me! The wizard SARUMAN

My first command SHAMAN is to do some weird voodoo thing on Outofit.. needs to learn the error of his ways and the boards do no tolerate muppetry of this kind!

SHAMAN · 15-02-2002 5:31pm

No voodoo's too messy.What you need to do is stick a nice sharp knife between his shoulder blades.
(Note:SHAMAN has become temporariarly schitzophrenic but will continue to be his strange self momentarily)

SHAMAN · 15-02-2002 5:52pm

And as my sig says I'm back

Hobbes · 15-02-2002 6:59pm

Could be any number of things.

- Radio interference

- Optical mice will cause a cursor to move sometimes. I found the MS mouse to do this a lot.

- You could have auto-move on (whatever it's called) where the mouse will automatically jump to a button.

- Could be someone running a remote terminal software (eg. VNC) thinking there's no one at the keyboard.

BKtje · 17-02-2002 1:40am

got it too with an optical
dont think we going to get an answer here.
tho the flaming is quite ammusing

Lex_Diamonds · 17-02-2002 6:51pm

If your running win2k you need to experiment with the sample and input buffer rates in the mouse properties. Changing these should solve the problem for you.

Stephen · 17-02-2002 7:26pm

Saruman, you truely are a fuckwit.

stereo_steve · 17-02-2002 7:53pm

No one has considered a trojan! It could be someone messing with your head! I must admit i've done it a few times just to annoy someone! Great fun!

viking · 17-02-2002 10:06pm

This has started happening to me as well, funnily enough it only started happening soon after I got ADSL installed. I have a funny feeling a stranger may have an interest in my hard drive. :mad: Although Zone Alarm doesn't report any problems when it happens...

Anyone else notice it happening when they are online?

viking

Mark · 17-02-2002 10:32pm

OK this is weird... I worked in one company until recently.. and every now and again i would take my hand off my mouse to type and sometimes the cursor would run amok and move across the screen (any application) and then sort of settle down but still move slightly! Im now in a different company with different computer and different mouse (same type of mouse though.. MS intellipoint wheel mouse!) and the same sh!t is happening..

Happened to me too. Mouse basically decided it didnt like me anymore and told me to piss off by trying to delete my Deus Ex,copy bout 200 megs of files and have a gander in as many folders as possible. Needless the say I shrieked like a woman when it tried to do the first thing on list and gave it a jolly good bashing,threw it across the room,kicked it a good bit,yelled at it,disgraced its mothers name,threathened cruifixition,compared it to Amp,etc,etc

In relation to the problem I just got a new mouse. Prob solved.

Lemming · 17-02-2002 10:45pm

Just a stupid question really (roll on the flame cards

)

Are you accidentally standing on any cables that could be snagged up with the mouse cable?

Or have a mobile sitting near the mouse with a serious vibra-alert battery that would do a jack-hammer proud?

po0k · 18-02-2002 10:55am

This has happened in WinNT SP6 for me too.
Possessed little mouse, slowly inching its way up the screen, then sliding back down, then going up again.
I just laugh and continue typing "MS SUX" in Pico.

nucular · 18-02-2002 2:03pm

Originally posted by Samson
Saruman,
(MS intellimouse mechanical, with Gateway badge).

I sometimes get a "no mouse found" message when windows boots.
Do you ever get that ?

Not myself but have seen it on a friends gateway twice in the last couple of months.
He has AMD 850 processor with AMD Oxnard mobo thingy!! or something close to that anyway.

If you have the same setup and take a CD out while it is shutting down it should reproduce and you won't be able to detect it again until the damn thing is taken out of it's socket and put back in. (at least that's what I have seen). He also has a mouse which seems to randomly move the pointer (extremely small amounts) so they could be related I s'pose..

Confusing the sh** out of me it is but it's not really that big a problem..

Posessed mouse

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