Windows Vista Mouse cursor freezes but focus moves on Vista Ultimate x64

[Jan Wikholm]

Hello,

I was wondering if anyone had stumbled on the following problem or maybe had
ideas on how to remedy this situation:

Twice now my mouse cursor (the actual icon) has frozen at some point on the
screen but when I move my physical mouse Windows reacts as tho' everything
is normal. This means that when I press the Ctrl key with "Show mouse
position when I press ctrl" option checked the "mouse" moves around
normally. Also when I hover the invisible focus point over a link the cursor
turns to the hand icon, even tho' the actual icon is still in the same spot.

The only anomaly to this has been when I move the focus point over the
border of a window (the icon becomes the <-> icon of resizing) and I press
down the left mouse button and the icon actually gets drawn in the proper
place whilst I am holding down the button + resizing the window. But as soon
as I let go of the left mouse button the icon gets drawn in the same
position it was previously.

Both times I have had to reboot my Windows in order to get it working
properly (a logout-login didn't work, and there is no "restart X" on Windows
;-). I have also tried switching resolutions (*shrug* it has to do with
drawing the image, so I thought it might work).

Some specs on my setup:
Vista Ultimate x64
Asus P5K Pro motherboard
nVidia 8600 GTS graphics card
Logitech MX510 mouse


I have all the updates from Windows Update + hardware drivers for Asus and
nVidia. Logitech's pages say they use native drivers in Vista.



Cheers,

Jan Wikholm

 

[shawngoldw]

RE: Mouse cursor freezes but focus moves on Vista Ultimate x64

Sorry I can't help, but your not alone, I have the exact same problem. I have
a similar system too. vista ultimate x64, asus p5kc and 8800gt.

 

[lskiff]

RE: Mouse cursor freezes but focus moves on Vista Ultimate x64



I can't help either. This problem started with an apparent "failure" of the
mouse--it worked sporadically. Checking USB devices, showed that all was
"OK". Since then I have given up on the external mouse, but now there are
problems even when I use the built-in mouse. My system freezes, though the
mouse pointer can be moved, and I have to shut down and restart.

lskiff

"shawngoldw" wrote:

> Sorry I can't help, but your not alone, I have the exact same problem. I have
> a similar system too. vista ultimate x64, asus p5kc and 8800gt.

 

[gcmiller44]

Re: Mouse cursor freezes but focus moves on Vista Ultimate x64


This is a common problem that is well documented although no definite
solutions.
I have updated my BIOS, removed unnecessary startup programs and
services, removed user account control, checked for malware etc and
ruled them out and have the same problem. Someone has suggested that it
has to do with low video memory although that doesn't explain why I have
to reboot.


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gcmiller44