Re: BABS! Other PC experts too... HELP!!!
Right, it appears Babs has left us, so anybody else with PC knowledge... Pleeease help.
We've had a few power problems here over the last few days. Firstly, my dad was kind enough to pull the plug on the power that supplies my PC, monitor and about eight other things. Whilst the PC was on. Since then I've done a scandisk and a defragment, and things seemed okay. But 12 hours later, he purchased a set of remote-control plugs (so he can switch his PC, TV and console off fully at night), and upon switching his PC on with the plug remote in the morning, there was a loud whizz, bang and pop. His power supply for his PC seems to have exploded. Now that's not what I have the problem with... The problem is, my mouse.
I spent £80 on a wireless mouse from the US, the Logitech G7. I've had it a while now, and it's never gone wrong before - the best mouse I've ever had and worth every penny. But suddenly, the mouse is cutting out every five minutes, for 5/10 seconds, and then coming back on. Now I'm not sure when the problem started, it seemed to be working okay after the power was accidentally unplugged, and seems to have started after he blew his power supply in his PC. I could be wrong, though.
You can see on the mouse when the connection is lost - the sensitivity lights change from my setting to the default, and a few seconds later they go back to my personal setting and the mouse works again.
At first I thought it was the USBs at fault, but everything else seems to work fine. The keyboard I'm typing this on is a USB keyboard, with an LCD display on that tells you the time etc., and it's not gone off so far. I've checked the USB hubs etc. in Control Panel > System and everything seems to check out. I notice in the list of what's plugged in the mouse adapter is the "odd one out" though; everything (and there's a lot) takes 100mAh, apart from the mouse (wherever you plug it in) that apparently takes 98mAh. Bit weird.
I've disabled all the USB ports bar one, I've unplugged everything from the USB ports bar the mouse adapter, and still it cuts out every now and then. It seems to range from cutting out every five minutes to cutting out every twenty minutes, and from coming back on within five seconds to coming back on after thirty seconds; so obviously I can't put up with it.
So what's at fault here, the power supply, the USB ports or the adapter? I don't want to ring Logitech and find out it's nothing to do with the mouse.
Cheers to anyone who replies...