Mouse freezes on startup

[Train]

Unplug and replug the mouse 3 or 4 times. Kind of sounds like a dirty connection.

That does tend to clean the contacts and has worked for me when the mouse locks up.

[anne]

Nothing has resolved the issue, i think i will reinstall windows

[Train]

Sometimes, I just did that myself, that is the only answer.

[anne]

I dont beleive this PC. I did a fresh install, downloaded all latest drivers , installed software, about 4 hours of it, then i did a windows update check and the dam thing froze.
I am convinced now the motherboard must have a bug up it.
What do u think?

[Train]

Are you using a router?

[SuperSparks]

In my experience, freeze-ups are a lot more likely to be software or driver related than harddware. Have a look in Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Event Viewer, and see if anything in there sheds any light on what might be causing the freeze-ups. And try starting in Safe Mode and see if it will run happily without freezing.

[anne]

Every USB device i hace tried to install has frozen the pc when installing drivers.. Eventually i get it installed. I went into device manager and tried to update the driver on the USB controllers. Each one froze the pc while trying to update. I did it in safe mode ok but no updates available. Something about this AM3 board that windows 7 does not like.

[anne]

I got suspious when the pc froze whild doing driver installs or updates of the internet.
I took out the wireless card and uninstalled the drivers and software.
Connected by cable.
No problam at all.
A bit if research showed the the drivers and software from dlink were in fact vista not 7. Incompatable.
I put the wireless card back in and let it install microsoft drivers.
Works perfectly.
Be wary of dlink software it is usually good but right now it is not compatable with 7.
Dlink should catch up.

[SuperSparks]

I'm glad you got it sorted out in the end

I've had similar driver issues myself, in the past. I usually wait and see what Windows finds the drivers for and only install the drivers for hardware that it doesn't have a driver for. Then, once I'm satisfied that everything is stable, I'll upgrade those drivers where I get extra functionality, which is usually only graphics drivers an MS Intellipoint.