Crazy mouse....need some input

I've been working on an HP Pavillion 6730, Celeron 600,256mb originally
had Win98, but I upgraded it to Win2000 Pro. The mouse is driving me nuts. It intermittently freezes up when the system boots up. It doesn't doe it every time, I will work fine for a day or two than start again. I've swapped out the mouse, re-installed the driver, verified that the bios
setting for the OS was Win98/200, tried the PS/2 settings in bios as
auto detect and enabled and the mouse still freezes up every now and then. HP is no help because they don't recommend/support Win2000
for this PC and the bios changes were posted on Microsfts site. Any input and ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks

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2lazybutsmart

ah... there's this nice mouse-trap that....

oops. sorry... ur talking about those small gadgets with the long tail-like wires on the back that seem not to attract the cats uh?

Never had problems with computer mice. There's this problem that happens to the ball inside the mouse. If you're not using a mouse pad, it sort of stores all the dust it can collect for your own disposal....

you'll have to clean it periodically or just feed it to the cats and buy an optical mouse.

prettyslick

It's not the mouse itself, I already checked that. Thanks for the info.

bellboy

prettyslick wrote:

I've been working on an HP Pavillion 6730, Celeron 600,256mb originally
had Win98, but I upgraded it to Win2000 Pro.

HP is no help because they don't recommend/support Win2000
for this PC

perhaps the motherboard is not 100% compatible with win2k. have you tried it with xp?