I'm having trouble with a computer that randomly decides that the cursor is going to stick to one x,y coordinate on the screen. It is pretty inconsistent - sometimes the computer can go a day or so before the cursor becomes stuck, sometimes a few hours. A reboot always clears the problem and the tab/alt method for navigating still works.

The cursor is stuck in that it forces itself to hover over the same x,y coordinate. If I move the mouse (now unplugged to rule out the possibility of a bad mouse) or use the laptop-like touch pad the cursor will move in that direction but immediately move back to the the original starting point.

Since the computer is new I'm banking on a faulty touch pad. Any ideas?

5/18/2006 9:13:25 AM

that's what I would say it is. The touchpad is probably fucking it up.

5/18/2006 9:32:07 AM

Yeah, I've disabled the touch pad as input. The only problem is that since it's random I have to let it sit for a few days to see what happens.

5/18/2006 9:45:45 AM

well when it locks up one thing you could do would be write down / remember the time it happens and then when you restart and have a mouse, check the event viewer log and see if any service unexpectedly terminated or if there were any errors

5/18/2006 9:51:40 AM

there is an nvidia driver issue where this happens, get the latest drivers (if you have an nvidia card) and see if it goes away

[Edited on May 18, 2006 at 10:14 AM. Reason : d]

5/18/2006 10:13:52 AM

I'd also make sure you have the newest drivers for the touchpad.

5/18/2006 11:23:30 AM

I should also say that this is one machine out of 8 with identical hardware that is acting up - the drives are all imaged and the other 7 work. I don't think it's a driver issue.

It hasn't frozen (yet) since I disabled the touch pad. Looks like I'll have to replace it.

5/18/2006 1:36:32 PM