mouse skips

[slowmike]

my mouse skips across the screen sometimes, ball is clean always, always happens when online--what happened to it?
:mad:

[ColdMiser]

The ball might be clean, but are the 3 rollers inside the mouse? If they have a gray stipe of junk on them they need to be cleaned.

[slowmike]

no, the ball and the rollers are perfectly clean

[Dissolved]

Originally posted by slowmike
no, the ball and the rollers are perfectly clean

buy an optical mouse... there under 40 bucks now..

[Garfield]

I have a Kensington optical, but I think the wooden desk's little nooks in the wood (and I mean little) might be throwing off the sensory, causing my mouse to go haywire sometimes. That really gets annoying after a while!!!

Garfield

[Diggrr]

You might try opening up the mouse and looking into the optical paths (IR diodes looking through wheel slots). I once had a hair in it that made my mouse do the same thing.

Just a thought.

[Blue Jester_2112]

Originally posted by Garfield
I have a Kensington optical, but I think the wooden desk's little nooks in the wood (and I mean little) might be throwing off the sensory, causing my mouse to go haywire sometimes. That really gets annoying after a while!!!

Garfield

If you thinks it's the desk try putting a mouse pad under it. If it keeps happening it's the mouse.

[Garfield]

Yeah, I did try a mouse pad and that worked (well, actually I put a smooth book under it). That worked well, but that is defeating a main point of the optical mouse. I guess I will either live with it or keep putting that book under it :D

Garfield

[Blue Jester_2112]

I dig what yer sayin'

I actually use a mouse pad under mine all the time, I prefer to have a bit of resistance to the mouse. Only reason I went optical was cuz I was sick of cleaning the mouse.

You could always get a mouse pad sized square of vynal cut. (Like people put in their car windows). Should be as smooth as your desk and take care of the skippng.

[Garfield]

Okay, thanks!

[ColdMiser]

SlowMike. First, try another mouse to see if that fixes it. If not, it may be your system. I've seen that happen before when the system resoures are really low. The pointer kind of hops, skips, and jumps across the screen. I don't know what kind of system you have, but a defrag and trimming background operations never hurts.

[Cluster]

Originally posted by Garfield
I have a Kensington optical, but I think the wooden desk's little nooks in the wood (and I mean little) might be throwing off the sensory, causing my mouse to go haywire sometimes. That really gets annoying after a while!!!

Garfield

I have a logitech optical, and i use mine on the arm of the chair(Has wide arms). Never has a problem.

[RangerJoe]

my friend has a wireless microsoft mouse and keyboard, and he sits on his bed and plays games...its kinda funny

[Monaco]

I have an Intellimouse optical, and it too hates wood surfaces. It jumps around like crazy on my wood desk. It works better on my pant leg!:)

My solution- one of those super thin 3M pads. Barely notice it, works great.

[NewBlood]

I've had a lot of problems with mouses. I got a micrsoft mouse inteelipoint with my compute then afte use it when dead o i got a compaq from a friend(temp) but it skipped to much, i brought a ball mous for 10 bucks no luck there either. SO i went to wal-mart and brought a IBM optical mouse for 18.88 and he is the best mouse yet, it runs on win95/98/NT/Me/2000/xp so i think you need to just forget the ball thing and buy one. And mine works on any surface, and you dont have to worry about the lens gettin sratched because its got a graud.I also got tryed of cleaning mine too, so once you go to optical your never want to turn back.

[CrystalMethod]

Originally posted by slowmike
my mouse skips across the screen sometimes, ball is clean always, always happens when online--what happened to it?
:mad:
Check your mouse pad. Look for indentations or grooves in it. Friend of mine put 2 nasty grooves in one of my mouse pads, and now the ball sometimes gets caught in them, and skips.

[slowmike]

its not the mouse pad, it only happens when the processor gets to above 90% useage:mad:

[NewBlood]

it also depends if you have hook it into the usb ports because some of them have slow frame rates

[slowmike]

its a ps2 mouse and it only started about 2-3 months ago, we owned it for over 2 year.