Something I learned this weekend

[skeletor]

In all of my 6 years of computer experience I never knew that a bad optical mouse could cause a computer not to work right. Everytime we would boot this pc up to xp the mouse would be getting choppy and lock the pc up. You would have to reboot several times so we decided to reload windows but once it got to the desktop it did the same thing. Then we noticed after the bios screen where u can press f1 for setup the keyboard would become unresponsive. Well we gave up for a bit and tried another pc using all the same keyboard, mouse, monitor. Well that pc was doing the same thing so it occured to me that it could be the mouse. Well we tried another mouse and everything worked great. The funny part is that the mouse worked but whatever happened to it caused the pc to lockup. So lesson learned.... Just wanted to share this with everyone.

[Geekgirl]

Hi skeletor

I've found that you learn something new everyday with computers. I don't take anything for granted anymore. And I'm never surprised if I find something outta the blue has caused the pc to crash..ya just never kno

[kratak]

Never heard of that one before!!! I can say ive learned something new today!

[PCguy]

I never had this issue, but if I do, I will remember you. Thanks for sharing.

[skeletor]

Well thanks for the replies I am glad I could share this with everyone... and yeah your right geekgirl you do learn something new everyday with computers. They like to surprise the hell out of ya... It just goes to show ya that one thing can always work like its supposed to and then one day just not work properly and give u problems...lol