USB Mouse not working after reboot

[Magnox]

Bloomin annoying this. My Microsoft USB Intellimouse work perfectly with my computer almost all the time. But every one in five (or so) times I reboot, it forgets about the mouse. So I have to login through ctrl-alt-del, then crawl under the desk, unplug the mouse, plug it back in again, and hey presto, fine till the next time.

Mobo: Gigabyte GA-7VAXP
Latest Bios (F9 - Nov 2002)
Atlon 2000xp
Windows XP with SP1

Have YOU experienced this problem? More to the point - have you fixed it?? I'd love to here from you!

[JollyRoger]

Welcome to the boards!

are you overclocking? if so I think your FSB may be too high, my ABit KG7 used to do something similar if I ran the FSB above about 145, the USB would start messing about.

[Magnox]

You are right - I've also had problems in the past with overclocking. Back then though it was a totally different computer, and the peripheral was a Palm m505.

Just checked my current FSB speed. There has been no overcloking on this (new) computer. Any more ideas?

Andy M