W7: why has the mouse cursor increased in size???

Gadge · 3 Dec 2009 at 15:25

When using windows 7, my mouse cursor will all of a sudden just double in size for no reason. Only when do get it back to normal is to reboot.

Anyone has a similar thing happen to them?

Gadge · 3 Dec 2009 at 15:31

ahh, just googled (should have done that first..). Its an ATI driver fault and/or gigabyte motherboard driver fault.

reflux · 3 Dec 2009 at 15:33

Yeah, I was gonna say - the close/maximize/minimize buttons have got bigger but the mouse cursor hasn't.

Gadge · 3 Dec 2009 at 15:39

other way around for me, everything stays normal except the mouse cursor, that increases. Found other forums with the answers, but i dear link them hear!

NathanE · 3 Dec 2009 at 17:19

The mouse cursor has been buggy for about 15 years on ATI graphics card. I can remember my ancient ATI Rage Fury card even doing it. I still see it today on their modern cards. Sometimes the mouse cursor just flickers and becomes twice as large for a split second.

They don't seem to care.

Broken Hope · 3 Dec 2009 at 18:20

NathanE said:
The mouse cursor has been buggy for about 15 years on ATI graphics card. I can remember my ancient ATI Rage Fury card even doing it. I still see it today on their modern cards. Sometimes the mouse cursor just flickers and becomes twice as large for a split second.

They don't seem to care.

Never had that issue and I've been using ATI cards since the 8500. The problem this thread is about is a Gigabyte BIOS bug.

Indy500 · 3 Dec 2009 at 18:21

NathanE said:
The mouse cursor has been buggy for about 15 years on ATI graphics card. I can remember my ancient ATI Rage Fury card even doing it. I still see it today on their modern cards. Sometimes the mouse cursor just flickers and becomes twice as large for a split second.

They don't seem to care.

I've used quite a few ATI cards over the years and never encountered that before...

TheSwede · 3 Dec 2009 at 18:29

hmmm just bought myself a ATI card and I have a Gigabyte mobo so I guess if my cursor increases in size I know why now..

Is there any fix for this by any chance, I mean.. in case it does happen to me, although reading sr4470 comments, he never had this problem before, so maybe I will be lucky!

Indy500 · 3 Dec 2009 at 18:40

TheSwede said:
hmmm just bought myself a ATI card and I have a Gigabyte mobo so I guess if my cursor increases in size I know why now.. Is there any fix for this by any chance, I mean.. in case it does happen to me, although reading sr4470 comments, he never had this problem before, so maybe I will be lucky!

What's your full PC specification? When I say quite a few, I mean nearly everything from ATI Rage up to the Radeon HD4870

and the latter was in a Gigabyte motherboard as well. I haven't used Windows 7 though..

TheSwede · 3 Dec 2009 at 18:45

sr4470 said:
What's your full PC specification? When I say quite a few, I mean nearly everything from ATI Rage up to the Radeon HD4870 and the latter was in a Gigabyte motherboard as well. I haven't used Windows 7 though..

Well, right now I have it as this..

Win7 Ultimate 32Bit
6 HDD's
ASUS Sonar D2
1 DVD Writer
1 Blue-Ray & HD DVD Drive
1 Floppy
(8800GTX) But this will be changed to a Powercolor 4890 1GB PCS+ when I receive it in a couple of days.

Running on a Corsair HX Series 520W Modular PSU. Also, the 6 HDD's will soon be cut down when I install my hot swap bay, I might end up with 3 or 4 HDD's, depends on if I can find another SATA cable or not.

Nocky24 · 3 Dec 2009 at 18:47

My spec doesn't have this problem at all for the record (using both ati and gigabyte).

Indy500 · 3 Dec 2009 at 18:50

TheSwede said:
Well, right now I have it as this..

Win7 Ultimate 32Bit
6 HDD's
ASUS Sonar D2
1 DVD Writer
1 Blue-Ray & HD DVD Drive
1 Floppy
(8800GTX) But this will be changed to a Powercolor 4890 1GB PCS+ when I receive it in a couple of days.

Running on a Corsair HX Series 520W Modular PSU. Also, the 6 HDD's will soon be cut down when I install my hot swap bay, I might end up with 3 or 4 HDD's, depends on if I can find another SATA cable or not.

Do you have PhysX software installed?

paradigm · 3 Dec 2009 at 18:54

Broken Hope said:
Never had that issue and I've been using ATI cards since the 8500. The problem this thread is about is a Gigabyte BIOS bug.

I've used ATi cards since the Rage PRO XL, never had this issue even on a few gigabyte boards.

TheSwede · 3 Dec 2009 at 19:09

sr4470 said:
Do you have PhysX software installed?

uhmm nope, not what I know off.... :confused:

Indy500 · 3 Dec 2009 at 20:08

TheSwede said:
uhmm nope, not what I know off....

Few people reported that it caused that problem apparently..

What driver set are you using?

TheSwede · 3 Dec 2009 at 20:15

sr4470 said:
Few people reported that it caused that problem apparently..

What driver set are you using?

nVidia's latest drivers.. 195.62..

Indy500 · 3 Dec 2009 at 20:23

TheSwede said:
nVidia's latest drivers.. 195.62..

I'm out of ideas then, i'm guessing you already checked the Windows 7 accessibility settings in control panel?

TheSwede · 3 Dec 2009 at 20:34

sr4470 said:
I'm out of ideas then, i'm guessing you already checked the Windows 7 accessibility settings in control panel?

Uhmm I think we got things a bit cross wired here.. my first comment about this problem was that I am soon going to have a ATI card and that I have a Gigabyte mobo, which seem to be a common dominator in this problem with the cursor.. I don't have a problem with it right now, having a nVidia card right now..

Hope that makes a bit more sense?

Indy500 · 3 Dec 2009 at 20:44

TheSwede said:
Uhmm I think we got things a bit cross wired here.. my first comment about this problem was that I am soon going to have a ATI card and that I have a Gigabyte mobo, which seem to be a common dominator in this problem with the cursor.. I don't have a problem with it right now, having a nVidia card right now..

Hope that makes a bit more sense?

Sorry. I misread your first post.

Broken Hope · 4 Dec 2009 at 07:42

TheSwede said:
hmmm just bought myself a ATI card and I have a Gigabyte mobo so I guess if my cursor increases in size I know why now.. Is there any fix for this by any chance, I mean.. in case it does happen to me, although reading sr4470 comments, he never had this problem before, so maybe I will be lucky!

Latest beta bios for most Gigabyte boards fixes it, though it seems to mostly affect their P55 Intel boards I think.