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Erratic mouse movement
Name: Ram Date: November 8, 2002 at 14:45:20 Pacific OS: Windows XP Home CPU/Ram: P IV, 128 MB
Comment:
Hi, I am coming across many issue in this. The pointer of the mouse slides to one side of the monitor or slides to the bottom.
I have checked the mouse settings. Re-installed drivers, flashed the BIOS. Nothing works.
Name: Brian Rignall Date: November 8, 2002 at 14:49:53 Pacific
Reply:
This behaviour is usually found in Laptops with a 'joystick style mouse.
As you haven't given us a clue as to what hadware you are referring to then any answers are going to be as relevant.
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Response Number 2
Name: XPose Date: November 9, 2002 at 02:02:14 Pacific
Reply:
Don't worry about the hardware specs' what you have is fairly common in both Me and XP. It also has to do with the signals generated by the wheel which causes problems. Live with it, it's not serious!
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Response Number 3
Name: tenteth Date: November 9, 2002 at 05:13:59 Pacific
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