Intellimouse Explorer

I have an intellimouse explorer and the trackball
optical. The intellimouse works for sometimes an hour,
sometimes a few seconds and then will stop working and
the error that the usb device has malfuntioned and is not
recognized comes up. If I unplug the mouse from the USB
port and plug it back in then it will begin working
properly again, however as I said sometimes for only a
few seconds, sometimes for an hour or so. Most of the
time it only lasts about 6-10 min. I've verified that I
have the hidusb.sys, hisclass.sys, and hidparse.sys files
in my system32/drivers folder so I don't know what the
problem could be short of just having a bad
mouse...though I dont see why it would work and then just
quit working...any ideas?

System:
XP pro
Dell Dimension 8100-
Pentium IV 1.7 GgHz
256 MB RDRAM - 800MHz

Frayed wire. Have you attached it to the PS2 port to see you have problems?

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I have an intellimouse explorer and the trackball
optical. The intellimouse works for sometimes an hour,
sometimes a few seconds and then will stop working and
the error that the usb device has malfuntioned and is not
recognized comes up. If I unplug the mouse from the USB
port and plug it back in then it will begin working
properly again, however as I said sometimes for only a
few seconds, sometimes for an hour or so. Most of the
time it only lasts about 6-10 min. I've verified that I
have the hidusb.sys, hisclass.sys, and hidparse.sys files
in my system32/drivers folder so I don't know what the
problem could be short of just having a bad
mouse...though I dont see why it would work and then just
quit working...any ideas?

System:
XP pro
Dell Dimension 8100-
Pentium IV 1.7 GgHz
256 MB RDRAM - 800MHz

I took a closer look at where the wire goes into the
mouse and you are 100% correct...frayed =) Guess I was
too hard on it w/ all that CS. Thanks alot for helping
me out!
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Frayed wire. Have you attached it to the PS2 port to see
you have problems?

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I have an intellimouse explorer and the trackball
optical. The intellimouse works for sometimes an hour,
sometimes a few seconds and then will stop working and
the error that the usb device has malfuntioned and is
not
recognized comes up. If I unplug the mouse from the
USB
port and plug it back in then it will begin working
properly again, however as I said sometimes for only a
few seconds, sometimes for an hour or so. Most of the
time it only lasts about 6-10 min. I've verified that
I
have the hidusb.sys, hisclass.sys, and hidparse.sys
files
in my system32/drivers folder so I don't know what the
problem could be short of just having a bad
mouse...though I dont see why it would work and then
just
quit working...any ideas?

System:
XP pro
Dell Dimension 8100-
Pentium IV 1.7 GgHz
256 MB RDRAM - 800MHz



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Have you tried another usb mouse???



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I have an intellimouse explorer and the trackball
optical. The intellimouse works for sometimes an hour,
sometimes a few seconds and then will stop working and
the error that the usb device has malfuntioned and is not
recognized comes up. If I unplug the mouse from the USB
port and plug it back in then it will begin working
properly again, however as I said sometimes for only a
few seconds, sometimes for an hour or so. Most of the
time it only lasts about 6-10 min. I've verified that I
have the hidusb.sys, hisclass.sys, and hidparse.sys files
in my system32/drivers folder so I don't know what the
problem could be short of just having a bad
mouse...though I dont see why it would work and then just
quit working...any ideas?

System:
XP pro
Dell Dimension 8100-
Pentium IV 1.7 GgHz
256 MB RDRAM - 800MHz