mouse freeze

[starfish11040]

About six or seven hours after starting up my desktop, the mouse freezes. I have tried several different mice and several different ports. The only way to get the mouse working is to turn the electric off and on and restart the computer. This problem began several days ago. Any suggestions?

 

[Appleo11]

Heloo star fish let me guide you
Here is a checklist
1: check mouse driver
2: a recently downloaded software may be the reason
3: ur USB ports may get heated fast, so check ur pc inbuilt fans, I recommed u buying a heat sink

If these dont work contact me

 

[porterjw]

Heloo star fish let me guide you
Here is a checklist
1: check mouse driver
2: a recently downloaded software may be the reason
3: ur USB ports may get heated fast, so check ur pc inbuilt fans, I recommed u buying a heat sink

If these dont work contact me

If there is enough heat coming from the CPU or other Board heatsink to make a USB hot, there are other, much more serious, issues.

OP, Did you make any recent changes to your system? New hardware, software update, settings? Generic mice require generic drivers, but if you have a specialty one it may require a specific driver (perhaps a recent software update requires the updated driver?).

Have you tried the mouse in a different USB port? While I completely disagree with #3 above, it is possible you simply have a USB port that is on it's way out. Try a different port and see if that works. You could also take a known-good USB device currently hooked up and move it to the port in question and see if the same thing happens after several hours - if it does, it's the USB port; if it doesn't, it's something related to the mouse.

Also, welcome to the Forum

 

[TheNamelessPoet]

Is it a wireless mouse? Could the batteries be dead? Seems like a silly thing to ask, but I have encountered that before and felt foolish myself lol

 

[porterjw]

About six or seven hours after starting up my desktop, the mouse freezes. ... The only way to get the mouse working is to turn the electric off and on and restart the computer.

Is it a wireless mouse? Could the batteries be dead? Seems like a silly thing to ask, but I have encountered that before and felt foolish myself lol

Dead batteries won't run for 6-7 hours at a time

 

[Appleo11]

If there is enough heat coming from the CPU or other Board heatsink to make a USB hot, there are other, much more serious, issues.

OP, Did you make any recent changes to your system? New hardware, software update, settings? Generic mice require generic drivers, but if you have a specialty one it may require a specific driver (perhaps a recent software update requires the updated driver?).

Have you tried the mouse in a different USB port? While I completely disagree with #3 above, it is possible you simply have a USB port that is on it's way out. Try a different port and see if that works. You could also take a known-good USB device currently hooked up and move it to the port in question and see if the same thing happens after several hours - if it does, it's the USB port; if it doesn't, it's something related to the mouse.

Also, welcome to the Forum

Ah but the USB heat problem had occured to my age old computer

 

[Agent Smith]

Could be a driver conflict with a recent app you installed on the computer. Think back to what you installed before the mouse problem. Remember though... If that doesn't work feed the mouse cheese.

 

[porterjw]

Ah but the USB heat problem had occured to my age old computer

Then it was a problem with the USB port, not heat soak from a component several inches away that miraculously still worked itself after being so hot that it caused other areas to fail...

 

[Appleo11]

Then it was a problem with the USB port, not heat soak from a component several inches away that miraculously still worked itself after being so hot that it caused other areas to fail...

Oh
Anyway I sold the old computer long back
2 out of 3 USB didnt work and they were very hot