[motti]

sometimes my ms intellimouse optical behaves very strange, after some time suddenly it seems to scroll up and down without me rolling the wheel. when i click on a menu or am in a long ie window, it scrolls up and downs, the only thing i can do is restart the G4.

i happened in 9, 10.1-5, so i think it could be a hardware thing..
has anyone had the same problem?

[Gankdawg]

Haven't had that problem. About once per day though, I can't find the cursor so I move the mouse around and it always reappears in the lower right hand corner of the screen.

[clow]

Originally posted by motti:
sometimes my ms intellimouse optical behaves very strange, after some time suddenly it seems to scroll up and down without me rolling the wheel. when i click on a menu or am in a long ie window, it scrolls up and downs, the only thing i can do is restart the G4.

i happened in 9, 10.1-5, so i think it could be a hardware thing..
has anyone had the same problem?

motti,

It could be that your batteries in the mouse are on their last legs.
This happened to me too, once batteries were replaced the strange things stopped.

If you installed the Intellimouse software that comes with the mouse, it will monitor & prompt you when batteries are running low.

Chris

[mrwalker]

I had one of these things and it behaved badly too.

It was eating me out of house & home with it's rediculous battery consumtion so I traded down the range for a cable one.

Problems fixed.

[passmaster16]

Originally posted by motti:
sometimes my ms intellimouse optical behaves very strange, after some time suddenly it seems to scroll up and down without me rolling the wheel. when i click on a menu or am in a long ie window, it scrolls up and downs, the only thing i can do is restart the G4.

i happened in 9, 10.1-5, so i think it could be a hardware thing..
has anyone had the same problem?

Haven't heard of that problem, but I have heard that the wireless intellimice aren't as good as the wired versions. People have said that the tracking isn't as good, and they drain the batteries a lot.

[CyberDave]

Originally posted by motti:
sometimes my ms intellimouse optical behaves very strange, after some time suddenly it seems to scroll up and down without me rolling the wheel. when i click on a menu or am in a long ie window, it scrolls up and downs, the only thing i can do is restart the G4.

i happened in 9, 10.1-5, so i think it could be a hardware thing..
has anyone had the same problem?

I have the MS Intellimouse Explorer. Occasionally, I will press the scroll wheel button by accident and not notice it until the window under the cursor starts scrolling by itself when I move the mouse (I can click the scroll wheel button again to stop this). I can't tell if this is what you're describing or not, though.

I have another MS Intellimouse Optical that has a rather loose scroll wheel that occasionally scrolls on its own if the mouse is jostled just right.

HTH

CyberDave

[motti]

Originally posted by CyberDave:


I have the MS Intellimouse Explorer. Occasionally, I will press the scroll wheel button by accident and not notice it until the window under the cursor starts scrolling by itself when I move the mouse (I can click the scroll wheel button again to stop this). I can't tell if this is what you're describing or not, though.

I have another MS Intellimouse Optical that has a rather loose scroll wheel that occasionally scrolls on its own if the mouse is jostled just right.

HTH

CyberDave

you mean the scroll whell is stuck between two positions? that's not the problem because when it occurs, i can scroll and it doesn't react at all. i have the wired version so it's not the battery. it's not too annoying but sometimes when writing a doc in word, i cannot continue to work and have to make a reboot.

[typos]

[zac4mac]

I have an Explorer, a few months ago it started acting up - sometimes lokking me up to the point of "force restart". The cable had a couple of broken wires at the mouse end. I repaired the cable, at the same time removing about 6 feet of said cable so it fits on my desk. Works fine again.

[CyberDave]

Originally posted by zac4mac:
I have an Explorer, a few months ago it started acting up - sometimes lokking me up to the point of "force restart". The cable had a couple of broken wires at the mouse end. I repaired the cable, at the same time removing about 6 feet of said cable so it fits on my desk. Works fine again.

I had forgotten about that. Some of the early Intellimouse Explorers were prone to having their cables wear out inside the mouse where the cable connected to the circuit board inside. This has supposedly been fixed and if you call MS, they'll send you a replacement (not having had to do this myself, I don't know the details).

I'd take the mouse apart and check the connection and if you're brave enough, fix it yourself.

CyberDave

[sae44]

I just bought a Microsoft IntelliMouse Optical with cord. I have OS 10.1.5 on my New flat panal iMac so I had to download the software online from Microsoft's site. Their site said latest software was for up to 10.1.3. I decided to download and try it anyway. When I rebooted after installation I got the good ole' "?" screen. I was able to restart with System Works and uninstalled the software. Have others been able to make this mouse work with 10.1.5 or should I just give up and return it for a refund?

Sae44

[davidflas]

I've been using a corded intellimouse optical on my G4/466 for a few months now and it works great. I'm running 10.1.5 and 9.2.2. The one problem I've seen is that sometimes while surfing the web with Explorer 5.2.1 moving the mouse causes scrolling. Clicking on a blank part of the webpage cures the problem, though it is quite annoying! I'm running 2.1.0 of the intellipoint software if that helps you at all.

[neilw]

I have had what I believe is the same problem. I fixed it by disabling the wheel button (via the control panel.)

This leads me to conclude that the mouse was sending phantom wheel button presses, causing the Mac to go into scroll mode, and moving the mouse at all made the app start scrolling continuously (I was always able to escape this by just pressing a mouse button.) Setting the software to basically ignore wheel button presses cures all. I didn't use the wheel button anyway so it was no loss to me.

In any case, give it a try.

An Intellimouse Explorer that I borrowed for a while (to see if I liked it) also had the problem of jumping the cursor to the corner on its own periodically; never figured that one out. My Intellimouse Optical does not have this problem, though, and since I fixed the wheel button thing I've been quite happy with it.

[motti]

Originally posted by neilw:

An Intellimouse Explorer that I borrowed for a while (to see if I liked it) also had the problem of jumping the cursor to the corner on its own periodically; never figured that one out. My Intellimouse Optical does not have this problem, though, and since I fixed the wheel button thing I've been quite happy with it.

Unfortunately, I need the scroll wheel, and usually when it happens, there is no way to make it stop..
Jumping cursors are often caused by mousepads with pictures on it (this is what i suppose..)

[neilw]

It's just the scroll wheel button you need to disable, not the normal scroll wheel operation. If you need the button, then I guess I can't help. Just wanted to make sure I was clear.