OK, so I did not fix my XP/Mouse glitch completely. This AM I powered on
my XP machine and no mouse movement at all. Mouse pointer just sat
~roughly in the center of the screen and would do nothing. Nope, not
sticky keys. Nope not an "access.cpl" issue. Thought it was the USB-PS/2
adapter. My alternate adapter seems to work. For a while. Stopped again.
Turns out that the light green plastic shoulder of the adapters measured
~0.475in in diameter. When I checked the panel openings in my KVM switch I
found the holes to be ~0.469in in diameter. Just enough interference to
keep the mouse and KBD from fully seating in the PS/2
connectors! DOH! Don't worry, I do have my "Stupid" sign! LOL!
Chased the panel holes to 0.50in and all seems fixed for good. I'm not
even going to try and figure out why XP was picky about this, but, Win2KPro
worked fine with this glitch........ :)
Thanks.
Best,
Duncan
At 17:43 05/09/2007 -0400, DHS wrote:
Yes, JMacCraw,
I'll run the "access.cpl" and recheck the kbd with any tools I have for
sticky key. Have not seen any yet.
But, I may have stumbled on the problem. When I installed a SwitchView
KVM for my 2 "back-house" systems (3 months ago), I do recall that the
PS/2-USB adapter was tough to plug into the KVM switch' mouse port. I
removed the adapter and swapped it with one from a Logitech mouse I use
for backup. So far so good. No more odd mouse behavior.
Suspect that the green plastic barrel just behind the PS/2 plug of the
suspect adapter is just a bit too large in diameter. This causes it to
interfer with the mouse port of the KVM switch. Might have backed out and
was being oddly intermittent. I'll confirm later tonite with a
micrometer. And, if the glitch comes back on the XP client, I'll connect
the mouse direct to the PC to eliminate the KVM entirely.
For now, the odd mouse glitch in XP seems to have gone away.
Thanks for all you suggestions..... I'm still freaked about the "stuck
Shift-key" suggestion! Gonna be testing my spare kbds tonite too!
Best,
Duncan
At 18:19 05/08/2007 -0400, jmaccraw wrote:
Or possibly the access feature "sticky keys".
Run "access.cpl" & uncheck all the "Keyboard" "Use
..." options.
JRS wrote:
> Almost sounds like a stuck shift key...........
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