Clearly that mouse is haunted, just like the haunted NES from a few years ago: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/03/14/haunted_nintendo/
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We didn't have one at hand and the problem was fixed by just changing USB port so Windows thought it's a completely new mouse, installed drivers and it worked fine.
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The deleted comment below was mine... I suggested checking the port or the mouse cord, but you said changing ports fixed the issue.
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I know, I read it. People are just suggesting solutions to a problem that just is not there instead of coming up with a funny reason for why it briefly happened.
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Never encountered anything like this, but thanks for sharing, it is a nice chuckle! xD
Can't you move the PC elsewhere and glue your friend's chair to the wall or something? Hmmm. Other than that, I think you should save that mouse, 'tmight be good for some competitive gaming hax!!!
Lay off that white stuff, Starwhite, you're trippin' you're a wizard again xD
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We neither, I was just complaining to the friend that everything went smoother than is usual and I didn't get to laugh at any random problems, so the ghost in the mouse heard my prayers and provided this. :)
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Sadly we didn't have any mouse minstrels to record what happened as a song. :(
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Hahaha, yes, I know it perfectly well - the paradox of "everything went suspiciously well so something is actually wrong" xD Especially with IT stuff it is always like that xD
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This is just one of the many unsolvable mysteries of the Universe.
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First thing came to mind is when people turn their screen 90 degrees physically and thru software. But I've never heard of 90 degree rotation on mouse. Unless the computer thinks the screen is rotated... Uninstall/reinstall video and mouse drivers.
https://www.computing.net/answers/hardware/mouse-moves-cursor-90-degrees-counterclockwise/87918.html
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Must be a new gaming mouse feature, FPS etc have had rotate Y axis for ages so why not rotate 90 degrees.
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Most likely you weren't moving the mouse straight left or right but at a slight angle.
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Tested for that too by moving it in a sine curve left and right while moving up. same result.
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Not so good raid controler and confict with shared irq for specific usb. Updating bios might help.
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Damn, I hope we didn't make them a mouse with brandy because the friend was such a noob.
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Isn't the drawing on the monitor rotated instead of the mouse?📺
CTRL+ALT+↑or↓(Intel)
AMD Nvidia? ┐(´Θ`)┌ooO(Graphics config option?)
Well, the driver may be wrong.
Sometimes the reflection of light is strange.
For now, laying white copy paper under the mouse may help.
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You need to upgrade your Operating system to a newer version to access Microsoft support.
Have a nice day!
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I had a mouse that only went up/down and not left/right, turns out there was a small hair like an eyelash or something inside the optical sensor that was blocking part of the electronic "eyes" in there... cleared the hair out and it worked normally again.
But in your case that is very strange, I'd also guess IRQ conflict like juzer said, perhaps the PCI slot is shared with the USB port. Perhaps need to clear the BIOS/NVRAM reset settings to default or whatever rain dance or voodoo ceremony is required on that motherboard. I had one where whenever any hardware was moved around you had to clear it to reset all the PNP assignments.
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No need to do anything except find funny explanations.
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OK, to fulfill the funny requirement: As a prank, I put a wireless mouse receiver on my coworker's computer. Put the mouse on my desk. When he was using his computer I would ever-so-gently move the mouse around. Not enough to be obvious, just enough to screw with his mind a little bit. He eventually got frustrated and called in some IT help to diagnose the problem. And, as always happens, when the IT help was there to witness the problem, the mouse was working fine! :P
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Hmm, she does have the opportunity with keys to the apartment and the motive with being a Mac user. Just lacking the means.
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There is absolutely no need to test anything either.
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Friend has an antique PC and he was running out of HDD space constantly. I had couple file servers from that era gathering dust so I sold him 4x1TB HDDs and a raid controller to put them in raid 5. After everything was cleaned from dust and assembled back, there was no picture but neither were there any error beeps. This was fixed by changing the order of the DDR2 modules. This is perfectly normal.
Then Win 7 booted up nicely and everything seemed to be working, until I went and tried to move the mouse. It only moved up and down and really slowly left and right, fastest way was to move it up and down while moving sideways so it would slowly curve there. Nothing unusual here either, just Windows.
But then comes the mysterious part. For some reason I turned the mouse 90 degrees and moved it up and down from my perspective, which for the physical mouse of course would have been left and right. But the cursor on screen moved up and down instead. So either the mouse has an inbuilt compass, it reads the mouse mat as a picture to know how it's moved related to it or then just NSA things. Anyone have a funnier or a boring technical explanation for this behavior?
Since the friend was a noob and didn't have any beer which is quite essential for any PC building or configuration, I had to get a bottle of brandy to help with this. But we barely drank half of the bottle and a sober girl from next door also witnessed and confirmed this. If we had been really high or drunk this would of course have been perfectly normal as well, but at least we got lots of laughs from it. :)
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