USB mouse stops working

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In every build of Vista I've tried, my wireless USB mouse seems to stop
working if I allow the machine to go into "sleep" mode. It seems the USB
port is simply turned-off, as the power light on the base goes out, and no
movement of the mouse, buttons, or sync buttons on the base or mouse will
turn it back on. The mouse even disappears from the device manager, and a
new search for hardware doesn't help. Removing and replacing the USB cable
is no good, either.

I don't see how it could be hardware... I have two hard drives in this unit,
one with Vista, and the other with XP. XP is a serial drive, Vista a PATA --
this, to avoid cross-contamination (I keep one port or the other deactivated
in the BIOS). Anyway, this never happens in XP -- using all the same
hardware plugged into the same ports.

The only difference is that in Vista, I'm using the generic mouse driver,
since Microsoft has no Vista driver available for their mouse yet.

Rebooting seems to fix the problem, but, nothing else I can think of does.

Any ideas? Is this happening to anyone else?
 
Change what the power button on your computer does. *Choose what the power
buttons do* it's in the Control Panel, Power options. If you choose that
the Power button puts your computer to sleep. Then When it is in sleep
briefly touching the power button will wake the computer up again.
 
Doesn't matter. I can use the power button or a keyboard button to wake up
the computer -- but, no mouse.

This doesn't happen EVERY time, btw... just sometimes.
 
jwardl said:
In every build of Vista I've tried, my wireless USB mouse seems to stop
working if I allow the machine to go into "sleep" mode. It seems the USB
port is simply turned-off, as the power light on the base goes out, and no
movement of the mouse, buttons, or sync buttons on the base or mouse will
turn it back on. The mouse even disappears from the device manager, and a
new search for hardware doesn't help. Removing and replacing the USB cable
is no good, either.

I don't see how it could be hardware... I have two hard drives in this unit,
one with Vista, and the other with XP. XP is a serial drive, Vista a PATA --
this, to avoid cross-contamination (I keep one port or the other deactivated
in the BIOS). Anyway, this never happens in XP -- using all the same
hardware plugged into the same ports.

The only difference is that in Vista, I'm using the generic mouse driver,
since Microsoft has no Vista driver available for their mouse yet.

Rebooting seems to fix the problem, but, nothing else I can think of does.

Any ideas? Is this happening to anyone else?
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It's a bug in Vista. It's been reported quite a few times, unfortunately,
there's little you can do about it except reboot.

I have exactly the same issue. The bug itself has been acknowledged by MS as
an issue within the USB driver - I can only presume it doesn't always
reinitialize the USB ports correctly.

Pre SP2, the same thing used to happen as Vista loaded up fresh from power on -
thankfully they fixed that, but recovery from sleep is still awating a fix.
We'll know in a few days if it's been fixed in RTM.
 
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