Hey, I was just wondering. Well basically Installed WIN98se when I first got my new hard drive and then I formatted my new hard drive to install Xp pro and now ive just upgraded to Xp pro SP2 And my mouse is playing up abit... It does a tiny LITTLE shiver that u can only just notice and then it moves slowly and smoothly across the screen or up the screen in most cases. I didnt have this problem with 98se and I bought the mouse new not long ago but its an old make of mouse that I got. I did notice an occasional little bit of a shiver with the original Xp pro but now its moving across the screen after the SP2 installation.
My mouse is a A4 tech OK-250. Its came with no drivers and its just a standard 2 button, no wheel, ball movement (not optical) mouse.
Ive just run a check on Spybot search and destroy it came up with a few entries and Iam now fixing the problems like removing casale media and cpx interactive and what not.... but do I replace my mouse with a newer one suited to XP? Would that fix the problem for good? Just a simple yes or no... If someone answers other than what u think please share becuase any HELP would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for ur time Just finished spybot s&d. Problem is still there Just thought id let u guys know... Post way more info on that machine and it's specs...a Win98 machine going to XP is never a pretty outcome most TIMES.Ok, Well all the information I could find is that it has


AMD duron Processor
1.00GHz
448MB of RAM
WD 160Gig Hard drive
Nvidia GeForce2 MX/MX 400 Graphics

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Might be a driver issue or a hardware issue. Do you have another mouse you can try/borrow?

Alan <>< I finally borrowed a mouse. The other mouse seems to work fine atm.... no shivering or moving atm and by now it would normally start. So thats a good thing I guess. I may seem abit of a dumb dumb at these THINGS but see I really dont trust the computer that ive got because it is getting on in age and Im not quite sure about all the performance and reliability of all hardware and so forth. My boss built it for me back in 2001 so yeah I dont really know all that much about it. And it has let me down a few times in the past but im pretty sure thats maybe to do with that hard drive that ive now replaced....

Anywho back to the mouse, I have heard that mice run a certain amount of kilometers and then kinda run out of functionality. I dont really understand it because Ive had to replace a few mice before but all were bought new and dont last all that long. Im not really prepared to blow $50-$100 bucks on a mouse just yet. But I dont buy second hand and I normally get ones that arnt too cheap and nasty like a novelty... But is the running out of Km's thing common?


The mouse isnt going too bad at all now Which is awesome. I should have thought of trying another mouse earlier. Sorry Its just my distrust in my comp that kinda makes me look for something wrong inside the case. I just thought it was strange that all of a sudden after XP Pro SP2 was installed it really started to play up.... coincidence? lol
Thank u