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    Losing my mouse cursor @ wake. Anyone else?

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by dma550, Jul 31, 2010.

  1. dma550

    dma550 Notebook Consultant

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    Hey guys

    This is annoying as hell. Every 3rd wake makes my mouse pointer fully invisible. It still works, so if I mouse over certain things I get a highlight, but I cannot see it. Log out does not cure, resleep does not cure it either, I must reboot. I am using the box stock dell drivers on Win7 Ultimate X64.

    What I have found this morning is that if I bring up CCC and disable crossfire, it comes back after the black screen. I then have to re-enable crossfire. I am probably going to make a hotkey to disable/enable crossfirex to semi-automate this (need this for certain games anyhow).

    Anyone else experience this?
     
    dma550, Jul 31, 2010
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  2. mfractal

    mfractal T|I

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    hmm.. which ATI drivers are you running ?
    Also, could you try to enable cursor trails and see what happens ?
     
    mfractal, Jul 31, 2010
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    A few other questions...is this with the trackpad? or do you have an actual USB mouse attached? Also have you tried either with or without a USB mouse attached to see if the problem still occurs? I haven't seen this, but I always have my mouse attached (not using the trackpad).
     
    Greywolf22, Aug 1, 2010
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    he stated he was on the dell driver.

    Questions -

    BIOS? A06?

    Battery only? AC only? Both?
     
    BatBoy, Aug 1, 2010
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  5. dma550

    dma550 Notebook Consultant

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    thanks guys

    Bios = a05, AC only. I am using a logitech mouse, but it happens to the trackpad as well.
     
    dma550, Aug 1, 2010
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    Did you try to enable pointer trails ?
     
    mfractal, Aug 1, 2010
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    dma550 Notebook Consultant

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    mfractal, good call. Very interesting, it comes back when I enable them, but then is lost again when I remove them. It is pretty jerky though. had to disable/enable Crossfirex again.
     
    dma550, Aug 2, 2010
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    I had a similiar problem using a USB mouse (also logitech) I found the problem went away after dell auto update finished updating.
     
    rippeer, Aug 2, 2010
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