Can anyone help with USB Trackerball??

[JohnE]

I have a Microsoft USB Trackerball which worked perfectly for several years with my old motherboard (a Gigabyte GA-7VAXP). Unfortunately, the old mobo blew itself up last week and I was forced to look for a replacement. Not wishing to buy a new processor, SATA drives, new memory or a new graphics card I decided to look for something similar to my old Gigabyte mobo. This morning I came across an Asus A7V8X-X which uses the same chipset and has broadly similar features.

The new mobo is now installed and everything seems to work - apart from the USB Trackerball...! If I "hot plug" it into any of the 4 available sockets, it will work for about 3 seconds, then it freezes. Similarly, if I boot up with the Trackerball plugged in, it works for about 20-30 seconds, then freezes. I've tried uninstalling the driver and re-booting but it makes no difference. The only obvious difference between the motherboards is that my old one had USB 1.1 and this is USB 2.0.

Are there any known problems with Microsoft Trackerballs and USB 2.0 - or can anyone suggest something else I could try?

[Tyler]

Have you tried installing the latest Microsoft IntelliPoint software?

[JohnE]

Doh...! Isn't it always something obvious!!
I followed your advice and it now works fine. Many thanks... :cheers:

[Cannon]

yea....lol

[Jason425]

yea....lol
bringing up dead thread + no info =
stupid post of the day award...

[Cannon]

yea....lol
bringing up dead thread + no info =
stupid post of the day award...

why do you gotta be a dick... i was just saying i had no intensions of doing that you cannot say you have never had a pointless post EX. the one you just made about my post

and why does it matter ne way? its not like i didnt know... :mad:

[JohnE]

Let's see if one of you can answer this pointless post then - a conundrum that's always puzzled me....

When Windows NT first came out, it required you to press CTRL+ALT+DEL to log on.... and I only found out a few days ago (from an IT guy) that subsequent versions of Windows (2000 and XP) can also be configured to force the same requirement.

But what on earth is the purpose of pressing CTRL+ALT+DEL at login???

Ever since the days of NT I've racked my brains over this - and the only thing I came up with is that it would prevent a one-armed man from being able to run Windows.

But why would Billy Gates want to do this? What exactly has he got against one-armed people???

[Uranium-235]

from what I hear, it's to prevent certain keylogging programs from stealing your password somehow

[JohnE]

One-armed man theory is better...! :biggrin:

[midimoose]

I second that, havn't you seen the fugitive you can't trust these one armed people.

[vee_ess]

U235 is right in that it is a security measure. It is designed to prevent brute force attacks.