# What's with my mouse freezing up?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 11, 2005, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-my-mouse-freezing-up/289490 "2005-02-11T00:23:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2005, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-my-mouse-freezing-up/289490/1 "2005-02-11T00:23:30Z")

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I had a Logitech optical mouse connected via USB. I started having problems with the driver loading on startup, i.e., I was unable to move the mouse pointer. Usually a reboot or two would solve the problem. I downloaded the newest drivers, but still had the same problem.

I thought maybe XP just doesn’t like Logitech, so I went out and bought a Microsoft optical mouse and connected to a USB port. I’m having the same problems, with an additional glitch: when the screen goes into powersave for more than a few minutes, the mouse goes dead. I hit a keyboard key, and the screen comes back up and the mouse operates. Until the last time. Frozen like last year’s salmon.

Any thoughts on how to debug this? Thanks.

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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2005, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-my-mouse-freezing-up/289490/2 "2005-02-11T17:32:12Z")

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One bump. Somebody must have a clue.

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**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2005, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-my-mouse-freezing-up/289490/3 "2005-02-11T17:46:52Z")

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Sounds to me like a hardware problem, get the latest drivers for the USB port for your computer-motherboard, if you still continue having the same problems consider getting an internal USB card.