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By Abominable Abitur in Abominable Abitur's Diary
Mon Feb 11, 2008 at 07:02:54 PM EST
Tags: hardware, weird (all tags)

i'm the 'IT' person for my office. This means that I generally pass on whatever comes my way to the corporate IT guys in the head office (or if they call, I'm their button-pushing monkey; this on top of my "real" job in which I'm supposed to be "billable").

This thing today though has me puzzled.

One of the desk-bound surveyors had his mouse invert the y-axis on him today. He printed a document, got up to get it and when he got back...his y-axis was inverted.

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I've tried everything thing I know. I've googled. I've updated the drivers. I've killed all the drivers and then installed them again. I've done all I can think of. Until, finally I just decided to give him a new mouse to use.
So I took the renegade mouse to my desk, plugged it in, and it's inverted on my computer too. My mouse works normally, and this other one is inverted.
How fucked up is that? It's a wireless Intellimouse 2.0 my mouse is just a generic optical.
Anyone got a clue? Maybe the batteries are in backwards?

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ask k5: inverted mouse problem | 24 comments (24 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

The fix is: (none / 0) (#1)
by Abominable Abitur on Mon Feb 11, 2008 at 07:04:52 PM EST

take the batteries out, put them back in. VOILA!

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Cosmic Rays (3.00 / 3) (#2)
by QuantumFoam on Mon Feb 11, 2008 at 07:25:22 PM EST

They came in and flipped a bit in the static RAM of the mouse. If the mouse has no RAM or firmware, then two seperate cosmic rays came in and hit very specific parts of the RAM of the computers of you and your coworker.

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Yeah, that's odd. (none / 0) (#3)
by j1mmy on Mon Feb 11, 2008 at 07:27:48 PM EST

Did you try MS's knowledge base?

Never run into that with my wireless mice, though mine are all Logitech.

their solution: replace/update drivers by Abominable Abitur, 02/12/2008 06:01:21 PM EST (none / 0)

It's in the options menu (3.00 / 6) (#4)
by Lady 3Jane on Mon Feb 11, 2008 at 07:32:23 PM EST

hit start, then go to options, controller, then turn off invert y-axis. if you don't like the other features, you can also turn off vibration, headbob, gore settings and change which trigger controls regular and alternate fire.

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What boggles my mind by Phssthpok, 02/11/2008 07:38:56 PM EST (none / 1)

no one plays your shareware dos games by Lady 3Jane, 02/11/2008 07:40:30 PM EST (3.00 / 3)

NO U by Phssthpok, 02/11/2008 07:46:38 PM EST (none / 1)

Install Linux (2.40 / 5) (#8)
by MichaelCrawford on Mon Feb 11, 2008 at 07:48:55 PM EST

Then your mousey wheel will work just fine.

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i suspect black magic (3.00 / 3) (#9)
by chlorus on Mon Feb 11, 2008 at 08:07:10 PM EST

someone has put a voodoo curse on the mouse. your best hope is to sacrifice one of its flesh and blood brethren and dribble its blood over the charging contacts. this will draw the evil spirits out of your mouse and back into the national power grid, where they belong.

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turn the mouse around (3.00 / 3) (#10)
by agreedymonkey on Mon Feb 11, 2008 at 09:09:11 PM EST

lemmee guess (none / 1) (#11)
by raduga on Mon Feb 11, 2008 at 09:16:14 PM EST

devolvement goes something like this...

first- your user gets up from his desk (leaving mouse unprotected)
second- y-axis inverted, for no obvious reason, with no obvious solution
third- x-axis inverts, again- without any software or hardware fault
fourth- mouse begins to track badly and wobbles, skips around the screen
fifth- no longer operable. you take the mouse apart, no mechanical or electronic fault. But it sure seems "dead"
sixth- over the next few days you notice other mice in the office begin to show the same symptoms and progress
through the same results, though some are more resistant, and a few mice actually seem to be fine.
(The one on your desktop, among them)
yuor corporate antivirus software shows nothing yet...
seventh- growth of the condition is geometric, and eventually every mouse in the office has failed.
eighth- in disgust you make a mousepile in the dumpster

...

A shadowy texan is seen lurking about the dumpster... scalpel and syringe in hand....

One of the quadrature encoders is blocked (3.00 / 2) (#12)
by localroger on Mon Feb 11, 2008 at 09:38:01 PM EST

Take it apart and clean it. Not just the ball rollers but take it completely apart and make sure there's no dust around any of the encoder receivers. If the receivers are too tight around the wheels blow them out with compressed air. most of the mice I've taken apart have enough space to get a piece of paper or lint-free cloth in between.

Each encoder wheel uses two LED/photodetector pairs so it can tell both how many vanes have passed and which direction the wheel is rotating. My guess is that there is a bit of hair or fluff on the Y axis receiver which is partially blocking one of the optical paths. If it was fully blocking either path the Y axis wouldn't work at all, but with partial blockage it could be borking the sequencing as the wheel turns and confusing the controller into thinking the wrong one came on first, which would invert the "direction."

Or you could just throw it away and get another mouse. You'll probably spend ten times what it's worth in labor fixing it.

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LR wins it. Exact same problem plagues by xC0000005, 02/12/2008 02:48:34 AM EST (none / 0)
all mice in office are optical by Abominable Abitur, 02/12/2008 05:59:14 PM EST (none / 0)

You've got the ball in upside down. (3.00 / 5) (#14)
by daveybaby on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 03:47:18 AM EST

Take the ball out, turn it round, then replace it.
Problem solved.

So, you stole his mouse? (none / 0) (#15)
by mr strange on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 05:31:26 AM EST

That's what it amounts to, yes?

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True story: (none / 0) (#16)
by creature on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 07:35:33 AM EST

I am sitting in a lecture hall, waiting for a lecture to begin. The lecturer walks in and goes up to the PC to load up her slides. She seems to be having some trouble with the mouse - it goes up when she moves it down, down when she moves it up, right when it goes left, and left when she moves it right.

"Oh, bother," she exclaims, without a hint of irony. "Someone's set this mouse to be left handed."

We let her struggle with it for a couple of minutes before someone took pity on her and explained that she had the mouse upside-down.

All of this would be unremarkable if she wasn't there to lecture in Computer Science.

I believe this woman tried to teach me compsci too by mrbastard, 02/12/2008 08:06:00 AM EST (none / 0)

Why do you expect to learn anything by GhostOfTiber, 02/12/2008 08:32:00 AM EST (none / 1)

LOCATION OF G SPOT 101 by Wen Jian, 02/13/2008 04:38:53 PM EST (none / 0)

Heh (none / 0) (#19)
by Sgt York on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 10:43:01 AM EST

You probably don't want to know how I'd solve it. Probably euthanasia followed by necropsy for the lulz, but it seems localroger has already suggested it.

STORY TIME : Back in my tech days there was a guy at Baylor that had an inverted mouse. Completely accidental. He made a transgenic and OMGWTF it had situs inversus (all the organs flipped to the wrong side).

Took him 5 years to track the gene down.

There is a reason for everything. Sometimes, that reason just sucks.

we've had a rash of multi-click (none / 0) (#22)
by SaintPort on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 06:29:33 PM EST

signals.

Single-click gets you a double-click... not always, but most of the time.

Best fix: file13 and buy new mouse.

Profit!

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Noisy switches by localroger, 02/12/2008 07:43:49 PM EST (none / 1)

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