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Ethernet adapter interfering with Mouse
On Jul 20, 4:53*pm, "GTS" wrote:
wrote in message ... I have tried 2 different mice (a Logitech and a Microsoft) on my laptop running Windows XP Pro SP3, and both of them were jerky. *I finally traced the problem to the built-in ethernet adapter. *Once I go into the Device Manager and disable the Intel Pro/1000 PL network adapter, then the mouse will be smooth. *It will still be smooth even if I subsequently re-enable the network adapter. *But if I restart Windows with the network adapter enabled, then the mouse will be jerky again. Not sure what's going on here, maybe it's a resource issue. *I noticed that the network adapter is on IRQ 16, and one of the USB Universal Host Controllers is also on IRQ 16. *But Windows won't let me change any of the resource settings for the mouse or the network adapter. *I also tried a different USB port and still had the same problem. Any idea on how to fix this? If not, then is there a way to disable and enable devices from the command line? *I'll just have a script disable and re-enable the network adapter on startup. What is the make and model of laptop? *Have you checked whether there is an updated BIOS available? *Also, the manufacturers support site for any info (in case there's a known issue)? It is a Thinkpad T60. I did upgrade to the latest BIOS, and that did not help. I have posted about this problem to forums.lenovo.com and also forum.thinkpad.com, and no one seems to have heard of this problem. A google search about this problem also really doesn't turn up anything. It really does seem like a bizarre problem. |
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