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wireless mouse not working
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Hi, I have a Nexxtech wireless mouse. It has stopped working on my Win10Pro desktop PC even after reboot. It worked before. I have moved it to this WinXP netbook where it works fine. I'm using it right now. It uses a USB wireless dongle. My question is about Win10. Why has it stopped working and how can I restore its function? Thanks in advance. X |
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wireless mouse not working
On 1/29/2017 2:53 PM, Norm X wrote:
This message is Xposted to relevant news groups Hi, I have a Nexxtech wireless mouse. It has stopped working on my Win10Pro desktop PC even after reboot. It worked before. I have moved it to this WinXP netbook where it works fine. I'm using it right now. It uses a USB wireless dongle. My question is about Win10. Why has it stopped working and how can I restore its function? Thanks in advance. X Go to the OEM of the mouse and download the latest drivers. |
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Norm X wrote:
This message is Xposted to relevant news groups Hi, I have a Nexxtech wireless mouse. It has stopped working on my Win10Pro desktop PC even after reboot. It worked before. I have moved it to this WinXP netbook where it works fine. I'm using it right now. It uses a USB wireless dongle. My question is about Win10. Why has it stopped working and how can I restore its function? Thanks in advance. X Yes, this happens, and you're not alone. Don't panic. It's not a hardware defect. https://www.tenforums.com/drivers-ha...working-2.html It might take some Device Manager work, uninstalling the driver, reboot, let it be re-discovered. For example, I have three mice on the Test Machine. Two USB2 mice, one serial mouse. Occasionally, I will lose one. Probably a USB mose. The serial one is pretty good, as it seems to be reliably detected. Most of the time, just one reboot is enough for it to come back. Paul |
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On 1/29/2017 11:53 AM, Norm X wrote:
This message is Xposted to relevant news groups Hi, I have a Nexxtech wireless mouse. It has stopped working on my Win10Pro desktop PC even after reboot. It worked before. Just to be clear, this mouse worked on this computer with win10Pro and it just stopped working??? Most likely cause of failure is the last thing that changed. With win10, updates may have trashed the driver. There are methods to back out updates, but someone like Paul will have to tell you how to do it. I once had a wireless mouse that only worked on some systems. Changing the battery fixed it. I have moved it to this WinXP netbook where it works fine. I'm using it right now. It uses a USB wireless dongle. My question is about Win10. Why has it stopped working and how can I restore its function? Thanks in advance. X |
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I once had a wireless mouse that only worked on some systems. Changing the battery fixed it. Yes. I put new batteries in the mouse after I checked the batteries which a volt meter. Strange, the red laser light never faltered. I guess RF consumes more energy. Then I powered up the mouse for Win10 to detect it. It was not detected. There might be some connection to down time for the mouse and driver replacement by Win10. |
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Norm X wrote:
"mike" wrote I once had a wireless mouse that only worked on some systems. Changing the battery fixed it. Yes. I put new batteries in the mouse after I checked the batteries which a volt meter. Strange, the red laser light never faltered. I guess RF consumes more energy. Then I powered up the mouse for Win10 to detect it. It was not detected. There might be some connection to down time for the mouse and driver replacement by Win10. You can see that laundry-lists of sins are known for Win10. I wouldn't believe some of them, unless I had experienced them first hand. I think I've had a RealTek audio package installed separately, and don't recollect the HID subsystem falling over on me. http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/finally...-mouse-issues/ My problems just seem to be more random. Like, if I rebooted six times, sometimes a mouse would disappear. I don't recollect my serial (RS232) test mouse disappearing, ever. It always seems to work. I don't have a PS/2 mouse port available, but I'm pretty sure if I had one, it would always work too. "If it's flaky, it's USB" is my motto. Paul |
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wireless mouse not working
On 1/31/2017 8:06 AM, Wolf K wrote:
On 2017-01-30 00:58, mike wrote: On 1/29/2017 11:53 AM, Norm X wrote: This message is Xposted to relevant news groups Hi, I have a Nexxtech wireless mouse. It has stopped working on my Win10Pro desktop PC even after reboot. It worked before. Just to be clear, this mouse worked on this computer with win10Pro and it just stopped working??? Most likely cause of failure is the last thing that changed. With win10, updates may have trashed the driver. There are methods to back out updates, but someone like Paul will have to tell you how to do it. [...] Also beware of firmware updates. These may come with Windows updates, but their sources is the hardware maker. It seems to be a law of updates that fixing a problem in firmware causes at least one new problem. Have a good day, USB has a bunch of hoops to jump thru to work. Mice have a bunch of hoops to jump thru. Depending on bios settings and OS settings, a USB mouse has to be detected by the bios to work there. It has to be detected by the OS to work there. There are a bunch of settings that can foil that process. IF an OS update changes the default setting for power to the USB ports under some conditions, the device may fail. When you plug in the USB mouse receiver, you can see the success in device manager. If that doesn't happen, your USB receiver or the port is busted or misconfigured or just dirty/corroded. First thing I'd do is boot the live Puppy Linux CD and see if the mouse works there. If you're a MS devotee, Hiren's boot CD can perform the same test. Either can be made to boot from USB if you don't have a CD. There's a diagnostic program called USBDeview that will show you every USB device ever connected to your machine and whether it's currently active. Of course, some very old USB mice don't have available drivers and won't work until you find/install them separately. That's not your case because you said it "worked before". Stuff does break. Just last night, the sound quit on my TV box. Long story short, it was the sound source selector switch to the amplified speakers. How often does a mechanical switch just quit transmitting sound on both channels without touching it? |
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On 1/29/2017 2:53 PM, Norm X wrote:
This message is Xposted to relevant news groups Hi, I have a Nexxtech wireless mouse. It has stopped working on my Win10Pro desktop PC even after reboot. It worked before. I have moved it to this WinXP netbook where it works fine. I'm using it right now. It uses a USB wireless dongle. My question is about Win10. Why has it stopped working and how can I restore its function? Thanks in advance. X Does it fail right in the middle of use or does it happen when it has been idle for a while? I've had vague intermittent problems in the past with some USB device or other for which the settings had been modified to effectively power down the port when it was idle. It has been a while and it certainly wasn't with W10 but it might be worth looking at. |
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wireless mouse not working
On Tue, 31 Jan 2017 07:51:05 -0500, Paul wrote:
Norm X wrote: "mike" wrote I once had a wireless mouse that only worked on some systems. Changing the battery fixed it. Yes. I put new batteries in the mouse after I checked the batteries which a volt meter. Strange, the red laser light never faltered. I guess RF consumes more energy. Then I powered up the mouse for Win10 to detect it. It was not detected. There might be some connection to down time for the mouse and driver replacement by Win10. You can see that laundry-lists of sins are known for Win10. I wouldn't believe some of them, unless I had experienced them first hand. I think I've had a RealTek audio package installed separately, and don't recollect the HID subsystem falling over on me. http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/finally...-mouse-issues/ My problems just seem to be more random. Like, if I rebooted six times, sometimes a mouse would disappear. I don't recollect my serial (RS232) test mouse disappearing, ever. It always seems to work. I don't have a PS/2 mouse port available, but I'm pretty sure if I had one, it would always work too. "If it's flaky, it's USB" is my motto. Excellent "Motto", Paul! :-) I always thought it was extremely arrogant of Dell to assume that 'mission critical' interfaces such as the PS/2 keyboard and mouse ports could be replaced by USB ports and totally done away with. USB3 has the chance to become equal to the task of 'mission critical' reliability embodied by such interfaces as serial, parallel, PS/2, SCSI, IDE and SATA ports given enough time to reach maturity since, unlike its brain-dead predecessors (USB1 and USB2), it isn't relying on the CPU to shag itself out handling every tiny detail of the PIO task such cheap 'n' nasty interfaces heaped upon a poor defenceless CPU as a ruse to sell more powerful Intel CPUs to the consuming masses. -- Johnny B Good |
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On 2/6/2017 12:02 PM, Johnny B Good wrote:
On Tue, 31 Jan 2017 07:51:05 -0500, Paul wrote: Norm X wrote: "mike" wrote I once had a wireless mouse that only worked on some systems. Changing the battery fixed it. Yes. I put new batteries in the mouse after I checked the batteries which a volt meter. Strange, the red laser light never faltered. I guess RF consumes more energy. Then I powered up the mouse for Win10 to detect it. It was not detected. There might be some connection to down time for the mouse and driver replacement by Win10. You can see that laundry-lists of sins are known for Win10. I wouldn't believe some of them, unless I had experienced them first hand. I think I've had a RealTek audio package installed separately, and don't recollect the HID subsystem falling over on me. http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/finally...-mouse-issues/ My problems just seem to be more random. Like, if I rebooted six times, sometimes a mouse would disappear. I don't recollect my serial (RS232) test mouse disappearing, ever. It always seems to work. I don't have a PS/2 mouse port available, but I'm pretty sure if I had one, it would always work too. "If it's flaky, it's USB" is my motto. Excellent "Motto", Paul! :-) I always thought it was extremely arrogant of Dell to assume that 'mission critical' interfaces such as the PS/2 keyboard and mouse ports could be replaced by USB ports and totally done away with. USB3 has the chance to become equal to the task of 'mission critical' reliability embodied by such interfaces as serial, parallel, PS/2, SCSI, IDE and SATA ports given enough time to reach maturity since, unlike its brain-dead predecessors (USB1 and USB2), it isn't relying on the CPU to shag itself out handling every tiny detail of the PIO task such cheap 'n' nasty interfaces heaped upon a poor defenceless CPU as a ruse to sell more powerful Intel CPUs to the consuming masses. The lower voltage USB is far superior to PS/2 for both keyboard and mouse control. Perhaps you'd also like to bring back serial mice, single core processors, the AT PS and 8 bit ISA standard. |
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