[G4] Freezing Mouse

[Frank Dutra]

Hi,

No answers, just more of the same problem,,, G4 450 DP (gig 
ethernet), factory SCSII card (the one that works), 256 MB,  OS 9.2.2 
0nly.

Began some time after adding a new IBM Deskstar 60 gig drive and 
reformatting the original 40 gig Deskstar with a clean OS 
install/upgrade  (I did use the old prefs and now wish I hadn't been 
so lazy). A power-off freeze (no LCD/optical mouse lights) requiring 
restart independent of ports/hub has been plaguing me occasionally 
since. It was initially a lot worse than now... Both ports would go 
out sometimes, and it often required multiple restarts to shake it 
off. The weird thing is that most of the time, only the Apple Pro 
mouse goes out, some of the time the mouse and Apple Pro keyboard, 
and rarely both ports(hub). The other weird thing is that it got 
better.. crashing only about once a week with occasional hangs which 
makes me think hardware. The only thing I've done differently is 
remove a few extensions and upgraded Windows Media Player & Eudora. 
Sometimes happens with extensions off if I remember correctly. Don't 
have an extra keyboard or mouse to do the obvious, have rebuilt the 
desktop and zapped the pram.

Possibly another related issue. Indexing of both drives is taking 
forever (days) and I'm not sure if it ever has finished both between 
crashes/shut-downs.

Thanks

Frank

At 5:56 PM -0800 1/10/03, Power Macintosh G4 List wrote:
>I'd appreciate some help with a problem that's appeared out of the blue (or
>ether). I have a G4/500 with OS 9.2.2 on the original hard drive and OS
>10.2.3 on a second 80-gig drive. A week or so ago while in 9.2.2. (NOT
>Classic) my MS IntelliPoint Explorer mouse froze (I've been using it for
>several years without any trouble). I switched hub ports and everything
>resumed per normal.
>
>Today, the mouse froze again. Switching ports didn't help, nor did plugging
>it directly into the G4 or the keyboard. Nor switching to an Apple mouse.
>The mouse will resume working for a while after restarting, but eventually
>freezes, the intervals or operating time steadily decreasing. I reset the
>PRAM twice but that didn't seem to have any effect either.
>
>The only thing I've done differently in the last few weeks is to revert from
>an after-market extended keyboard to the Apple keyboard that came with the
>G4. Had I gone the other way around, I'd be more inclined to expect a
>problem.

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