USB mouse woes with Intel MacBook running XP
February 1st, 2007 by Scott Janousek
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Loading ...I’ve noticed something strange with the intel MacBook (not a MBP) I have. The behavior is that an external USB mouse (or any other USB device for that matter), will stop responding after I put the MB into sleep mode and then wake it. Normally, I’d call this a bug, but since Windows on a mac is still smiled upon, I’ll say it’s a mild inconvenience.
Does anyone else have this behavior? It is annoying as it requires a complete reboot to remedy. I haven’t really found the answer in searching forums, etc. Apple care, well, I get strange looks there … Of course, it does not appear under OSX, only under Windows XP.
I know, I know. I should be shot for running full blown XP on a mac, given the nice parallels option … however, sometimes I need to be working in a full windows environment on the mac … even though I do run parallels often (under OSX).
Bueller? Bueller?
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February 4th, 2007 at 5:10 pm
Hello Scott, How about this widget? It might work: http://deepsleep.free.fr
February 5th, 2007 at 2:23 pm
I’m wondering if a Vista upgrade would solve the issue. Apple is telling me it’s a driver related problem for XP on MacBook.
February 8th, 2007 at 12:35 pm
I’m having this problem right now - only I’m not running WIndows.
February 18th, 2007 at 4:20 am
Glad to see i’m not the only one with this issue! It even extends the Boot Camp environment: I installed XP on a Boot Camp partition, after which I used the parallels application to make it into a virtual machine. With this I can use the Windows environment within my OSX environment but also use the power of a native running Windows XP in boot camp. In this setup I only have one install of Windows to worry about: they both use the same partition! (might even work for you as well… since you’d like to try parallels but also need Boot Camp)
The problem is: After I put my OSX to sleep, the USB mouse support is gone all the way. When I close parallels the mouse starts working again.
Couldn’t find any solution yet on the web though…
February 18th, 2007 at 10:54 am
JD. I run the same configuration as you. Both parallels and bootcamp.
March 12th, 2007 at 7:13 pm
Mine does the same, but what works is using the trackpad, goto Parallels file menu, Devices->USB->un-check Apple Optical USB Mouse. My mouse starts working when I do this. It is a less annoying workaround than re-booting.
August 9th, 2007 at 2:27 pm
Wow!
Bueller? Bueller?
I actually don’t like the movie — it’s got cursing and such. But wow!!! using that tag is cool.
If it were not theft, I’d use it myself — (but because it is, I won’t.)
Anyway, I spend a lot of time doing techy things and have a stock prediction engine, but for the convienience and to just avoid bad solutions, I recently got a mouse — and because my wife uses my MacBook and doesn’t like the built-in mouse, I was searching the web for nice mice solutions.
So, now I have to come up with something for myself from popular culture — I have a copy of “Back to the Future”, I will watch it with a mind to tag lines.
Of course I only predict the near-term future, not 50 years forward.
I am trying to move my clients to a mobile solution. I want graphs and interactivity across *several* different types of cell-phones.
Can you help?
–jg
August 12th, 2007 at 12:58 am
JG, send me an email. scott AT scottjanousek DOT com
November 20th, 2007 at 2:26 pm
hi yea i have a question umm when i plug just any old usb mouse to my macbook it doesnt recinize it is says power is being drained from a usb port put the mouse doesnt do anything and the mac doesnt recinize it as a mouse im so confused any ideas?