Cursor keeps floating to corner of screen? wtf
 

anyone know what this problem could be? it's fucking pissing me off, i have to use tab and alt and all that shit to do anything!!!!

info:
laptop
dell inspiron 8200
mouse i'm using is Dynex
OS i'm using is Windows XP

here's a thread with same problem
http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic13555.html

i have tried EVERYTHING!

Is it a ball mouse?

nope it's a dynex optical mouse

You have another mouse pluged in (USB/Wireless)

Or it's a defective item =>

btw, just sat at computer store for 2hrs while 2 guys tried to fix the problem, they couldnt figure out how to do it

we did this so far...........
1. defrag
2. reinstall drivers
3. system restore
4. bios, diconnected touchpad

the only thing the guy could think of was he said to replace my harddisk and use my current as a usb plugin or something like that

I've had it happen with ball mice before, the cursor would randomly shoot into a corner and I was not able to get it away from there. I think replacing the mouse and drivers would do the trick.

nope, no other mouse plugged in, and it's not defective because this happend before to me

i replaced the mouse, worked fine for a while then started to do it again, someone said i have to remove my computer battery when i'm plugged into the wall, worked ok for 1 week then started doing it again

oh, and also we tried plugging my usb into the other type of port thingy and it still floated to corner

is it a wireless mouse?

nope it's a USB pluginned mouse

did you replace the mouse with an optical too or a regular?

edit : ok a regular

I had that on an old laptop damn what was it again... it would just drift away... it was a driver problem lemme think

I had the same problem as you with one of my laptops, I have no clue what could be causing that :error

SO did you try a new mouse? remove the mouse, delete the drivers, try a totally differnt mouse and reinstall its drivers

does you laptop have a bios setting for PS/2-Touchpad and one for PS/2?

it did have it set for both, but we put it to only have PS/2 instead, still fucks up :helpme

i have another mouse, it had same problem aswell

it has to be some kind of settings problem, OR something is just broke (and it aint the mouse)

ok cause the ps2 touchpad setting fucked up with mine but it was a dell... hmm

my laptop is a dell too

format c:

shoot it is youre right

hmm and the swapping to PS2 only didnt work... that did the trick for me

I have had this problem with my optical mouse. Turns out the surface I was using the mouse on had flaws that messed with the laser. But with a laptop...I would get a can of compressed air and blast the inner edge of the touch pad...might be a crumb or something wedged in there that is putting pressure on the pad, making your cursor move.

Same problem here on one of my computers. I don't use it too often myself so I never got too worried about it.

On this computer it only did it since I switched to a USB optical mouse. When it had the standard PS2 mouse it worked fine.

I had that problem everytime my phone went off the cursor would just fly off in one direction. They seem to pick up the rays or some shit. =/

keep the cat away from it

Does it still do it with your mouse unplugged? If so it might be the mouse pad on the laptop.

control panel - mouse - pointer options - uncheck the box next to: automatically move pointer blah blah blah... then click apply, then restart computer.

try disabling the default touchpad/nub on the computer. on one of my laptops, the nub mouse is off kilter and slowing drifts the cursor to the top right.

Yeah, try disabling the touchpad. Remove it's drivers or disable them in system settings. And when you reinstall the mouse driver, maybe try uninstalling it, hard booting, then let the Wizard install it (just to ensure it's fully uninstalled before reinstalling)
I had to use that method with a retarded video card once. Simply reinstalling didnt do it. Had to uninstall, reboot, and let mr wizard help.

Every mouse does that to me, no matter what computer it is...desktop and laptop. And, all I have is a regular, non fancy mouse.

Sigh. I've given up trying to figure it out.

I had a similar problem, after updating my mouse driver? it was gone.

Very upsetting when working with graphics!

why would they want to replace the hd? there's no point on doing that, new mouse new driver, better. ;)

yea it still does it when the mouse is unplugged, so it's not a defective mouse for sure

i'll try this, thank you

i'll try this too, thank you