Windows Me - Microsoft Madness Saturday, June 9, 2001 at 7:49 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Cornchip (1 messages posted) I have experienced a few problems with my computer not recognising my Microsoft Intellimouse Optical after a power cut. I have been using Windows ME for the past 4 months. During this time there have been 3 power disruptions and when I booted up the computer when the power came back on, Windows started but the cursor was frozen on the screen and the mouse wouldn't respond. Using the 'Restore' utility didn't help either. Luckily I had backed up C drive using Norton Ghost and after restoring a previous image (on all 3 occasions, the mouse worked fine. Have others experienced similar problems with WinME and the Intellimouse Optical and is there a fix/solution? Also I have also have problems with my Soundblaster Live Value sound card. I am using the latest WinME drivers (version 2.1.5.0) which work OK but if I load the Creative Liveware software, Windows will not shut down. If I remove Liveware, there are no problems but I would like to have the extra features this software provides. I have a Microsoft Sidewinder Steering Wheel and gamepad (the steering wheel is connected via a USB port and I'm using controller software 4.0, and the gamepad plugs into the soundcards gameport. The steering wheel works fine with a number of games including Need For Speed 3 and F1 2000 etc but refuses to work with Microsoft Midtown Madness 2 (although the gamepad works). I also get terrible graphic anomalies when using nVidia WHQL Detonator3 drivers ( I've tried all 7.XX versions and even version 12.41 but still have the problems, even when running the Direct3D tests under Direct X 8. I am currently using nVidia reference drivers version 6.31 and these are fine (but I thought WHQL drivers would be compatible with Microsoft programs). My system comprises of the following: ASUS CUSL2 Motherboard with Intel 815e chipset - Bios version 1.06a Intel Celeron 800 mhz CPU 256 meg PC100 SDRAM Creative Labs Geforce 256 32 meg DDR AGP graphics card Creative Soundblaster Live Value soundcard MS Natural PS/2 Keyboard and MS Intellimouse Optical Seagate 20 gig HD 48 X LG CD Rom Responses to this message: No answers, but a suggestion... (Jim Swearingen: Sunday, June 10, 2001 at 8:53 am) Amen to the battery backup. (bonker: Monday, June 11, 2001 at 11:09 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Windows Me - Microsoft Madness (Cornchip: Sat, Jun 9, 2001, 7:49 pm) No answers, but a suggestion... (Jim Swearingen: Sun, Jun 10, 2001, 8:53 am) Amen to the battery backup. (bonker: Mon, Jun 11, 2001, 11:09 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum