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I seemed to have solved it after discovering that my USB hub had dislodged its dc power supply cable. I reconnected it and have offloaded as much as possible of my USB onto it as is practical, though the mouse is now running off a Pluscom PCMCIA CArdbus USB 2.0 4Port card. Haven't had a...

Download the latest Intellimouse Mouse driver (or whatever USB mouse you have) and save file handy. Then Uninstall the current driver completely via Mouse Control Panel Hardware Properties, after quitting all applications. Finally using the touchpad i.e. inactive mouse cannot work (else you...

Strangely I have been getting same/similar behaviour. Sometimes the USB mouse just switches off and require reconnection which is the least problematic. I already have removed the green PS/2 adaptor and have it connected to the main USB port. The worst behaviour is when the mouse cursor starts...

Blade Adapter was the solution. I just hadn't noticed it. Kind of thing that slips under the radar! Laptop drives don't need jumpers anyway I think. Thanks anyway.

Hey ram you sure are a cynical one! I think the drive pin blade adapter is something that seems to have been generally overlooked including the internet. No conspiracy theory needed, no deliberate traps, just good ole fashioned human error. At least in this case ;) Thanks for the AMD comments

Thanks for the input. 10 minutes after I posted also to the Dell Community forum some genius suggested I might have overlooked the blade adaptor that enables the drive to connect to the system board on the laptop! I am not sure what other name it's called but yes he was 100% correct!! I just...

Anyone any ideas why so far 2 different 2.5 IDE laptop drives (WD 320GB and Samsung 120GB) don't get seen by the BIOS? Tried Dell Diagnostics disk which actually picks up identification info but flashes error that no valid FAT partition on the disk. Tried formatting 25GB partition on another...