AES
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I have a Lenovo laptop running Win 7 Pro, about 1 year old now.
Like most laptops, it has a track pad thingy but I've never been able to get on with either this one, or the one on my earlier HP laptops. So I much prefer to use an off board mini mouse, and as I fly a lot, I much prefer an optical mouse with a USB cable, not a wireless mouse.
This Lenovo has 4 off USB 3 ports (if it matters, 2 on the left, 2 on the right), and being right handed I normally plug the mouse into one of the 2 RH available ports.
Normally this works just fine, but every once in a while, after what appears to be a normal start up, the mouse is completely dead - not even the red light. But when I simply unplug from one of the USB RH ports and re-plug it into the other RH port, the mouse works fine - no re-starting the laptop or anything. So I leave it in that "2nd" RH port, and after a few absolutely normal starts, fine for a while, perhaps for a period of several days, then suddenly, next start, the mouse is dead again. Plug it back into "port 1" RH and off we go again, fine - until the next time!
The Lenovo has a fairly extensive set of fault finding routines for both hardware and software, but every time I've tried everything that looks at all appropriate, the diagnostics always come up fault free.
I have allowed Mr. Gates to automatically install his regular Win 7 updates - there have been quite a few over the last year.
This is not a huge problem but it's a bit annoying at times. If anyone has any ideas on what a fix might be (IF it's simple - VERY simple - remember you're dealing with "Mr. PC Luddite Mark 1" here!) I'd be very grateful.
P.S. I do plug other stuff such as scanners, camera, external disk, etc into the other 2 USBs from time to time, (but not permanently like the mouse) and with no such problems (so far) - they work first time every time.
TIA
AES
Like most laptops, it has a track pad thingy but I've never been able to get on with either this one, or the one on my earlier HP laptops. So I much prefer to use an off board mini mouse, and as I fly a lot, I much prefer an optical mouse with a USB cable, not a wireless mouse.
This Lenovo has 4 off USB 3 ports (if it matters, 2 on the left, 2 on the right), and being right handed I normally plug the mouse into one of the 2 RH available ports.
Normally this works just fine, but every once in a while, after what appears to be a normal start up, the mouse is completely dead - not even the red light. But when I simply unplug from one of the USB RH ports and re-plug it into the other RH port, the mouse works fine - no re-starting the laptop or anything. So I leave it in that "2nd" RH port, and after a few absolutely normal starts, fine for a while, perhaps for a period of several days, then suddenly, next start, the mouse is dead again. Plug it back into "port 1" RH and off we go again, fine - until the next time!
The Lenovo has a fairly extensive set of fault finding routines for both hardware and software, but every time I've tried everything that looks at all appropriate, the diagnostics always come up fault free.
I have allowed Mr. Gates to automatically install his regular Win 7 updates - there have been quite a few over the last year.
This is not a huge problem but it's a bit annoying at times. If anyone has any ideas on what a fix might be (IF it's simple - VERY simple - remember you're dealing with "Mr. PC Luddite Mark 1" here!) I'd be very grateful.
P.S. I do plug other stuff such as scanners, camera, external disk, etc into the other 2 USBs from time to time, (but not permanently like the mouse) and with no such problems (so far) - they work first time every time.
TIA
AES
