Help!

A few minutes after boot-up the mouse starts jumping around and clicking at stuff. It becomes totally unworkable after around 5 minutes. Its also extremely annoying, as you lose window focus the moment a jump happens.

This happens on a fresh install of the Personal Edition 5 (i upgraded to .1 and .3 and still got the same results). I've used Logitech 2 and 3 button mice as well as an A4Tech 2 button with the same results.

This happens whether i run BeOs under VMware (mouse jumps around inside the VMware viewport), boot from floppy or from a an autoexec'd loadbeos from a DOS only boot partition.

The only thing i have'nt tried is using a Com1 serial mice but i dont want to waste one com port when i can use the PS2 mouse port.

I've tried setting the mouse config to 1,2 and 3 buttons, playing with the other settings with no improvement.

This must have happened to someone else but i cant find any references to similar problems under beos on the web.

Please, can someone tell me how to fix this?

Thanks

Sounds like you may have a virus. Have you tried an online antivirus scanner? I recommend these two:
http://www.bitdefender.com (under Products, Online Scan)
http://www.pandasoftware.com (click on picture on the right that says Free Scan).

Donna, wouldn't antivirus scanning in BeOS be useful if there were actually any virii that bothered BeOS? As far as I know, there are none, and if there are some, they are not spread around; only written as personal projects and kept 'under lock & key'. Ronald's problem may be hardware (motherboard incompatibility issue) or some odd software problem, but most certainly not a virus. The virus scanners available for BeOS apparently look for virii that are on *nix and Windoze partitions/drives that are mounted when using BeOS.

Ronald, I suggest you use a serial port just to test your theory. If it works, then great (other than losing a serial port), if not, I am not sure where you can go from there other than possibly changing hardware to BeOS compatible parts. I specifically build my computers to be 100% BeOS hardware compatible. Good luck with the serial mouse.

Best,
Cliff

I use a MS IntelliMouse with no problems. Can you borrow one to test with your system?

There is a hardware compatibility list at Frizbe. Have you checked it to see if your mouse is BeOS compatible? Luckily, if you need to buy a new mouse, they're very inexpensive and easy to install. It's not like a new processor or graphic card.

Best Luck,
Bob

Donna may be correct in that it is possible to have a bios virus.

I almost think that there is something wrong with the memory in the computer. With the millions of chips and various versions of computer parts it may be that this combination just doesn't work?

Suggest you go to bios and disable plug and play and turn off USB support totally. If you have choices to slow the memory down use them, like add in waits or decrease clock speed.

Did you actually get another download of BeOS or just try the same copy on each load?

Hi,

You do not have a virus. That is the stupidest thing I've ever heard. This is a known issue with VMWare and in a Windows XP VM, you have to go to Device Manager and remove the "detected" Microsoft PS/2 mouse and replace with a PLAIN PS/2 mouse and this correct the problem somewhat (it seems that the mouse still jumps on the login screen, but not in individual users' profiles.

--S