Re: Intellipoint Explorer 3.0 Mouse problem

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From: Jason Tsang (jason-onlineDEL_at_ETEmvps.org)
Date: 02/03/04 

Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 07:12:52 -0500

Your mouse will remain on if your motherboard supplies power through the
PS/2 port.
That is by design so that your mouse can be used to wake up/turn on your
computer from an off/sleep/suspend stage.

If you want to disable this, you'll need to find the appropriate switch to
disable in your bios (it'll be something like wake via ps/2 or something
like that). For some motherboards, you may even have to change some jumpers
to completely cut off the flow of power to the ps/2 port when the computer
is in a down state. 

-- 
Jason Tsang - Microsoft MVP
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"Tom" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:929301c3ea38$eb7a39f0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> Im running a Microsoft Intellipoint Explorer 3.0 Mouse
> through the PS/2 connection on my Windows XP pro computer.
>
> The mouse works fine, and the software is installed
> properly etc. However, whenever I shut down the computer,
> the mouse doesnt turn off, the optical lamp is still
> obviously fully lit, and wont turn off until I turn off
> the power at the wall.
>
> In the short term, this is a minor problem as leaving it
> on isnt that big a deal, but I feel a bit uneasy as to
> having to leave it on in the long run.
>
> The mouse was turning off properly when I was running
> Windows ME. However, recently I have upgraded to Windows
> XP and im suddenly having the problem. I uninstalled the
> software for the mouse and installed it again, no such
> luck.
>
> Does anyone have and ideas as to what the problem could
> be?

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