mouse pointer in XP

Discussion in 'Software' started by nolajoe, Sep 8, 2003.

  1. nolajoe

    nolajoe Private E-2

    Running XP..Intuitive mouse pointer (cd icon) comes up when there is no CD in drive..CD's light on front of drive flashing, but no CD loaded...Seems to affect ability to load anything else..XP problem, or CD driver problem?? Thanx
     
  2. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    Sounds more like a CD hardware problem than a windows one as the mouse would take its cue to popup from the drive accessing something.


    Check cables to make sure they are firmly pushed in ( they can over time and if you move your PC a fair bit come loose ) best to unplug and re-plus both in drive and motherboard.

    As you are using XP check the Event Viewer for any errors around the times this happends?


    Also strange as it may seem run a AntiVirus scan and a Spyware scan ( Ad-Aware or Spybot S&D are good for this and both freely available from the main Majorgeeks page ) BUT make sure they all have the Virus/Spyware definitions upto date.
     

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