Vista - Problem Laser 8000 Bluetooth Mouse

You know what I would really like, So...?
A radio sheild so that strangers cannot access and interfere with all my
wireless household equipment, including strangers on the street, my
neighbours, and malicious or mistaken people on the internet. This sheild
would protect my home theater (hit twice so far this year by the jerk teens
across the alley), my telephones (3 of them), my home security (you really
don't want to know), ... and my MOUSE!

Mark

"Computer & Sound System Tech" wrote:

er... Sorry Peter, It was my previous posts to this forum where the battery
replacemet was explained.

And if you are thinking pushing the little reset button on the bottom of the
mouse will do the best reset, forget it.
8 slow blinks is because I tweaked the mouse using various combinations of
holding what button while putting the mouse onto the charge pad.

A previous Microsoft mouse I got emailed the complete tech specs which
included "button controls". In the beginning the rapid red blinks started
instantly without any green. Necessity is the mother of invention - not
efficiency. The tech specs would be most efficient way to solve this dillema.

Mark

"samoila_mircea" wrote:

Well, no need to get testy we were only trying to help. Is it still under
warranty? If so return it from whence it came.
There's one thing that puzzled me in your original post. You said it
charged for a short while and then the light went red, it only does that
when it's coupling initially with the Bluetooth dongle...strange
Sorry, I don't know what else to suggest. Naturally you can't call M$ as
they charge for every service call.

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Peter
Toronto, Canada
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humm any of your devices are secure? your post is making me guess it's not
if you have wireless internet you have to set a password for it other wise
anyone can access your system possibly implement a virus. as for the
bluetooth, unless it's a really cheap bluetooth i don't think anyone
could've taken control of your mouse because usually you have to enter a
password for bluetooth, and you would have to press the connect button at
the same time they try to control it. if you have wireless telephone again
it is possible to get encrypted wireless phone, i for one have one it has a
voicemail box three portable wireless phone and if i remember correctly the
frequency changes three times per second, so no one could listen your
conversation, or take control of it. i hope this helps if you need more info
i'll be glad to provide it to you if i can. i didn't mean to make you
irritated or mad about the battery but i was kinda doing a small
announcement because not everyone knows this. i have some friends who still
believes that charging your battery every day like a cell phone is good for
it. but anyway...... hope this helps

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unless someone can explain this to me as to why it is possible, i fail to
believe or think a driver could act as a virus by infecting a device in this
manner. it is completly going against what a driver is, the encyclopidia
tells us the definition of a driver:

A device driver simplifies programming by acting as a translator between a
device and the applications or operating systems that use it. The
higher-level code can be written independently of whatever specific hardware
device it may control. Every version of a device, such as a printer,
requires its own specialized commands. In contrast, most applications access
devices (such as sending a file to a printer) by using high-level, generic
commands, such as PRINTLN. The driver accepts these generic statements and
converts them into the low-level commands required by the device.

so my guess is that the problem occured at the same time of the update but i
don't think the driver is at falt, especially if you uninstalled it or
rolled back and no changes were seen, but since i've never seen this before
i could be wrong.

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Nothing to do with drivers as the current drivers are fine. Assuming you
followed Microft's instructions for connecting your mouse, you've obviously
got a bad product that is faulty or your charging station is faulty/has a
loose connection. As far as I know these mice are covered by a 1 year
warranty. Why aren't you just returning the whole shebang to wherever you
got it from?

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Peter
Toronto, Canada
"mark" <mark@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thank you for your assistance.
I found out how to reset the laser 8000 mouse.
Note that the mouse recharge was disabled by a Vista64 update or an update
hack.
That disabled behavior is well described in the forum.
The solution was to press in the mouse reset switch for about 15 seconds and
then immediately press for 5 seconds and again for 5 seconds (3 pushes).
Then when the mouse is placed on the charge pad it blinks green-red pause
green-red and so on.
Then take the mouse off the pad and press the reset for five seconds.
Finally, place the mouse on the pad and let it recharge.
When the mouse light is solid green, not pulsing, take it off the pad.
You will notice that the mouse is still not working.
Keyboard also is frozen, and you cannot use your operating system.
Manually reset the computer with a warm reboot.
When Vista64 restarts, the mouse is still not going to work.
Another 5 second press of the mouse reset.
Place it on the charge pad for 5 seconds to initiate an amplified signal
burst.
Remove the mouse from the pad and leave it on the desk top.
Now locate the bluetooth transceiver in its USB port.
Do not unplug the transceiver.
Press the bluetooth transceiver's reset button for 5 seconds until it's
green light is rapidly blinking.
Let go of the reset and the transceiver will immediately stop blinking and
emit a steady green glow.
This steady glow means that the mouse has been located by the operating
system.
A dialog with a progress bar will announce the configuration of the
bluetooth device to transact with the mouse for the operating system.
After the configuration completes the mouse is repaired and ready to use.

C&S, all I needed was the reset press sequence, or base manual hardware
reset sequence. Would have saved me months of dire annoyance. Why is this
info not shipped with the product, published online in a very noticable and
easily accessed page, and provided to customers having any related problem?

"Computer & Sound System Tech" wrote:

Thank you for your assistance.
I found out how to reset the laser 8000 mouse.
Note that the mouse recharge was disabled by a Vista64 update or an update
hack.
That disabled behavior was well described in the Windows forum.
The solution was to press in the mouse reset switch for about 15 seconds and
then immediately press for 5 seconds and again for 5 seconds (3 pushes).
Then when the mouse is placed on the charge pad it blinks green-red pause
green-red and so on.
Then take the mouse off the pad and press the reset for five seconds.
Finally, place the mouse on the pad and let it recharge.
When the mouse light is solid green, not pulsing, take it off the pad.
You will notice that the mouse is still not working.
Keyboard also is frozen, and you cannot use your operating system.
Manually reset the computer with a warm reboot.
When Vista64 restarts, the mouse is still not going to work.
Another 5 second press of the mouse reset.
Place it on the charge pad for 5 seconds to initiate an amplified signal
burst.
Remove the mouse from the pad and leave it on the desk top.
Now locate the bluetooth transceiver in its USB port.
Do not unplug the transceiver.
Press the bluetooth transceiver's reset button for 5 seconds until it's
green light is rapidly blinking.
Let go of the reset and the transceiver will immediately stop blinking and
emit a steady green glow.
This steady glow means that the mouse has been located by the operating
system.
A dialog with a progress bar will announce the configuration of the
bluetooth device to transact with the mouse for the operating system.
After the configuration completes the mouse is repaired and ready to use.

Peter, all I needed was the reset press sequence, or as it is usually named,
the 'base manual hardware reset sequence'. Would have saved me months of dire
annoyance. Why is this info not shipped with the product, published online in
a very noticable and easily accessed page, and provided to customers having
any related problem?

"Peter" wrote:

Thank you for your assistance.
I found out how to reset the laser 8000 mouse.
Note that the mouse recharge was disabled by a Vista64 update or an update
hack.
That disabled behavior was well described in the Windows forum.
The solution was to press in the mouse reset switch for about 15 seconds and
then immediately press for 5 seconds and again for 5 seconds (3 pushes).
Then when the mouse is placed on the charge pad it blinks green-red pause
green-red and so on.
Then take the mouse off the pad and press the reset for five seconds.
Finally, place the mouse on the pad and let it recharge.
When the mouse light is solid green, not pulsing, take it off the pad.
You will notice that the mouse is still not working.
Keyboard also is frozen, and you cannot use your operating system.
Manually reset the computer with a reboot, and restart Windows in Normal mode.
When Vista64 restarts, the mouse is still not going to work.
Another 5 second press of the mouse reset.
Place it on the charge pad for 5 seconds to initiate an amplified signal
burst.
Remove the mouse from the pad and leave it on the desk top.
Now locate the bluetooth transceiver in its USB port.
Do not unplug the transceiver.
Press the bluetooth transceiver's reset button for 5 seconds until it's
green light is rapidly blinking.
Let go of the reset and the transceiver will immediately stop blinking and
emit a steady green glow.
This steady glow means that the mouse has been located by the operating
system.
A dialog with a progress bar will announce the configuration of the
bluetooth device to transact with the mouse for the operating system.
After the configuration completes the mouse is repaired and ready to use.

Samoila, all I needed was the reset press sequence, or as it is usually
named, the 'base manual hardware reset sequence'. Would have saved me months
of dire annoyance. Why is this info not shipped with the product, published
online in a very noticable and easily accessed page, and provided to
customers having any related problem? Well, never mind the obvious cynical
retort. I am really serious about what I said concerning the need for a
computer-based sheild against remote intrusion. I know some home alarms
feature that now. What hardware can I buy to protect my system from criminal
intrusion?

"At the help desk, work is never completed."

"samoila_mircea" wrote:

Mark I've been having major trouble with it and the Entertainment Keyboard
8000 and I'm glad you found out a solution. You are right, Microsoft's
documentation is sadly lacking on this product.
Support is even worse.

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Peter
Toronto, Canada
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