Zowie mouse disconnects/reconnects when flicking it fast.

[berniew0w]

Hey, 3 weeks ago I bought myself a Zowie EC2-A mouse. I like the shape and everything very much, but it comes with a problem.

I play Counter-Strike with a very very low sensitivity, which has me flicking the mouse across my large mousepad very fast sometimes.

When I flick too hard/fast, the mouse disconnects for ~2-3 seconds, plays the typical windows sound of connecting/disconnecting a usb, then reconnects and everything is fine.

I assumed I'd just been very unlucky by picking up a mouse with a factory fault from the store, so today I went and forced an RMA and got a brand new mouse of the exact same kind. Now I've been testing it out inside Counter-Strike and it does the exact same thing, leading me to believe that it may be a general fault with this kind of mouse, or possibly a problem with my motherboard/usb-slots or my PC in general.

I have an i5-4490k CPU, an nvidia GeForce GTX 960 GFX, and an Asus Z-97P motherboard.

I hope someone can help me, since I don't wish to go back to my old mouse (Razer Deathadder 2013, which by the way had no problem with fast flicks.

Kind regards,
berniew0w

 

[Gingerbread]

Seems like a problem with your USBs. Try running in a different usb port. If it doesn't work, I assume you are running on 1000hz, might try reducing that to 125hz.

 

[maikki]

i just bought the same mouse 2 days ago, had the same problem, you can try following steps:

1. Go to your Control Panel -> System -> Hardware tab -> click on the "Device Manager" button.

2. In the Device Manager window, find the item or items labeled "Universal Serial Bus controllers." Open it, and double-click the first item called "USB Root Hub."

3. In the USB Root Hub Properties dialog, click on the "Power Management" tab.

4. "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power" is checked by default. Uncheck this box, and click "OK."

heard this fixed the problem for some people, but not for me, what solved it for me was, i went to BIOS -> USB configuration, and enabled both USB legacy modes.

since zowie mouses don't have any software i think this is why it solves the problem.

"legacy" USB support is needed to operate USB devices outside of the operating system where there is no driver or other software to support them.