My aDSL modem got fried in a thunder storm. I got a new one a few days ago & set it on top of the PC case instead of on a table where the old one was. Last night, my mouse pointer quit responding, but it comes back for a while if I unplug & replug the USB connection. Then it dies again if I don't use it for a few minutes. Pretty irritating. The problems came up suddenly-- have not had mouse trouble for a long time. Disabled CursorXP for a while, but it made no difference.
The mouse is a Logitech M-1000 & it's receiver has been plugged into the same USB 1.1 port for months. I haven't added or removed any USB items for weeks-- in fact the only recent hardware change was the DSL modem replacement. No SW changes this week except the WB5 update a couple of days ago. The USB option to allow the PC to turn the device off to save energy is disabled. There is a checkbox to allow the device to bring the PC out of Standby, but it is now greyed out. I used to have it checked, but MS must have blocked the option to protect me from myself. I do have the mouse set to bring the PC out of standby.
I moved the DSL modem farther away to see if it makes any difference, but I don't know if I'm out in left field or what... Anybody know?
