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Compaq Armada 3500 clicks
Hi All,
not sure if this is going to make sense, but here goes, I have 3500 running win2k fully s/packed and h/fixed (according to microsoft) it has an external ps2 mouse bu th eproble occcours equally on the internal pointer or a USB mouse, and here is the problem: The mouse clicks randomly, this may not sound very drastic, however it means the cursor jumps to where the pointer is, or if I move it elswhere I can loose focus on the window I am working on, it seems to do this every 5 or 10 seconds and is driving me to distraction, does anyone have any ideas? By the way, I cannot access the BIOS at all, and it has no docking station either if that makes any difference. TIA -- /d |
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Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 21:59:19 +0100, Ovenpaa wrote: Hi All, not sure if this is going to make sense, but here goes, I have 3500 running win2k fully s/packed and h/fixed (according to microsoft) it has an external ps2 mouse bu th eproble occcours equally on the internal pointer or a USB mouse, and here is the problem: The mouse clicks randomly, this may not sound very drastic, however it means the cursor jumps to where the pointer is, or if I move it elswhere I can loose focus on the window I am working on, it seems to do this every 5 or 10 seconds and is driving me to distraction, does anyone have any ideas? By the way, I cannot access the BIOS at all, and it has no docking station either if that makes any difference. TIA Does this happen when you are using an external keyboard, or only when you use the built-in keyboard (assuming that the 3500 is a laptop)? The touchpad on Compaq laptops is extremely sensitive, and brushing the touchpad with a thumb while typing can be treated as a mouseclick. Some versions of the mousepad driver allow you to turn off "clicks", so that touching the mousepad will only move the cursor, not click the mouse. Unfortunately, the driver for my laptop (an Armada E500) doesn't have this feature, so I use an external keyboard whenever possible. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 7.0.3 for non-commercial use http://www.pgp.com iQA/AwUBQVTP7TMYPge5L34aEQJ7ZACgr1yLKFCPTh6R/osbXzHTYQ1DKBoAn0sN Hjz9iY2voJnxOblAGxYvBXDR =XZEn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- John F. Eldredge -- PGP key available from http://pgp.mit.edu "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria |
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On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 20:55:21 -0500, John F. Eldredge wrote:
Does this happen when you are using an external keyboard, or only when you use the built-in keyboard (assuming that the 3500 is a laptop)? The touchpad on Compaq laptops is extremely sensitive, and brushing the touchpad with a thumb while typing can be treated as a mouseclick. Some versions of the mousepad driver allow you to turn off "clicks", so that touching the mousepad will only move the cursor, not click the mouse. Unfortunately, the driver for my laptop (an Armada E500) doesn't have this feature, so I use an external keyboard whenever possible. Good idea john, however it only has the mouse torsion button (nipple!) on the keyboard, no mouse pad, and this problem occours even with a remote keyboard, I can even hear the clisk if the volume is up when I am away from the macine, I am sure it is hotfix related because it started a long while after I built the machine. -- /d |
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I have exactly the same problem that you describe. It's infuriating when
you're trying to type. If you ever come up with the solution, please come back here and post it... I thought it must be the ps/2 mouse and was going to plug in an ordinary serial mouse. |
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"Ovenpaa" wrote in message news Hi All, not sure if this is going to make sense, but here goes, I have 3500 running win2k fully s/packed and h/fixed (according to microsoft) it has an external ps2 mouse bu th eproble occcours equally on the internal pointer or a USB mouse, and here is the problem: The mouse clicks randomly, this may not sound very drastic, however it means the cursor jumps to where the pointer is, or if I move it elswhere I can loose focus on the window I am working on, it seems to do this every 5 or 10 seconds and is driving me to distraction, does anyone have any ideas? By the way, I cannot access the BIOS at all, and it has no docking station either if that makes any difference. TIA -- /d There is an Erratic Mouse fix on any of the Hewlett-Packard driver and software pages for the various Compaq laptops. -- Earl F. Parrish |
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