Logitech Mouse Problems :(

Buchanan0204 · 2 Aug 2011 at 11:45

I have two seperate Logitech mice. A performance MX and an MX revolution. The first one uses the unifying reveiver along with my K800 keyboard. The second uses it's own receiver, the larger older type.

Regardless of which mouse I use with which receiver, the cursor will freeze every 20 seconds or so briefly and not allow me to control it. I've tried a fresh reinstall of windows. Downloaded the latest drivers/software from Logitech and tried it in different USB ports. I can't think what the problem is.

Motherboard/chipset issue perhaps?

Any suggestions? Cheers.

stulid · 2 Aug 2011 at 11:46

Is there a new firmware for the mouse and not just software?

Buchanan0204 · 2 Aug 2011 at 17:55

Believe it or not it turned out to be two faulty hard drives causing the hang/stutter. No idea how that can be related.

It was doing it with all mice that I connected. I tried another one. I scanned the drives with WD Lifeguard and it failed. Disconnected them and my laggy curosor days are gone! Hooray. Just need to get my WD Green drives RMA'd and I'm sorted.

Ch3m1c4L · 2 Aug 2011 at 18:11

its because windows gets stuck trying to read the HDD, for about a month I thought I had dodgy RAM/virus on my PC but it was just where I had knockked a connection slightly loose :/ Its doing it slightly now too, but I htink thats more cause I am rebuilding my RAID array which is also the drive im trying to access half the time lol.

Buchanan0204 · 2 Aug 2011 at 18:22

Ch3m1c4L said:
its because windows gets stuck trying to read the HDD, for about a month I thought I had dodgy RAM/virus on my PC but it was just where I had knockked a connection slightly loose :/ Its doing it slightly now too, but I htink thats more cause I am rebuilding my RAID array which is also the drive im trying to access half the time lol.

I should have said. My OS isn't running off of these drives so should have had no effect at all. No data was being accessed from them. They were purely for HD videos. 2x2TB drives in Raid0.

Now I have the joys of working out how to recover all my HD videos. Oh dear!

Ch3m1c4L · 2 Aug 2011 at 18:40

makes no difference, the bios, and as such windows is still going to be trying to spin them up and access them, just to be able to display them.

Buchanan0204 · 2 Aug 2011 at 19:29

Ch3m1c4L said:
makes no difference, the bios, and as such windows is still going to be trying to spin them up and access them, just to be able to display them.

Suppose. Why would that cause a cursor to lag? Surely it would be a seperate process. Can't seem to get my head around the connection.

Ch3m1c4L · 2 Aug 2011 at 23:22

windows stops responding because it is stuck polling the hard drive. It shouldnt do it, but it does because its faulting and it has a timeout before it gives up. Witha working drive it doesnt, with a totally dead drive it doesnt, its ones in between which give it problems.