So.. I felt like sharing this little story among this community;
I noticed my MX1000 mouse had a problem with its battery. It always was depleted even when charged correctly (you know, do it like the all-mighty manual says).
A tear fell down my eye since the mx1000 served me well and we had such great moments together Anyways, I went out today and bought a new mouse. A Razer Copperhead. Don't ask why, I just picked one from the shelf.
Btw, I actually did read the instructions before installing. So I plugged the mouse in. Turned on power. Installed software. Rebooted. So far so good.
BUT.. What the hell? The cursor wandered off almost by its own. "Oh well, must be a settings bug." Or so it seemed. I played around with the settings and what was the outcome? The mouse had a 5x5 pixel randomizer around the cursor. Seriously. When I tried out some pixel perfect movements, the cursor moved by a 5x5 random grid and it just _would not accept movement by 1 pixel_.
After slapping myself to stop laughing hysterically, I decided to update the software. Oh god.. here goes;
Installed properly according to instructions. No problems, no errors. Rebooted. And what a suprise: the mouse died. No movement, lights on, no one home. After another laughing session, I decided to rollback; Uninstalled software, reboot, install old software. No change, mouse is still dead. After that, I took more drastic driver killing methods into use:
Uninstalled software, removed mouse/hid devices from cp, erased all mouse related drivers with DCP, even went trough registry and disabled legacy usb from mb. And what do you know.. NOT WORKING!
Oh well, theres always the support site from the manufacturer, right? I went in and dug up some dirt. Only useful instructions were these;
1. Disable legacy support from your MB.
2. Plug the mouse in a different usb port.
If this doesnt work, send the mouse to repair.
COME ON! Thats the best you can do? omfg. You fail.
I haven't had ANY problems with my MX1000 in it's lifespan and I'm thinking of buying another one to replace the old one.
The copperhead can go to hell for all I care. They look really cool, but simply are not reliable enough. If this is the manufacturers idea of reliability and credibility then I don't know how they are still in business.
If you own a Razer product and it works for you, congrats. You should really start betting on lottery.
I do not advice anyone to buy this mouse. I wish I would have stumbled on a thread like this before I bought the damn copperhead
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I noticed my MX1000 mouse had a problem with its battery. It always was depleted even when charged correctly (you know, do it like the all-mighty manual says).
A tear fell down my eye since the mx1000 served me well and we had such great moments together Anyways, I went out today and bought a new mouse. A Razer Copperhead. Don't ask why, I just picked one from the shelf.
Btw, I actually did read the instructions before installing. So I plugged the mouse in. Turned on power. Installed software. Rebooted. So far so good.
BUT.. What the hell? The cursor wandered off almost by its own. "Oh well, must be a settings bug." Or so it seemed. I played around with the settings and what was the outcome? The mouse had a 5x5 pixel randomizer around the cursor. Seriously. When I tried out some pixel perfect movements, the cursor moved by a 5x5 random grid and it just _would not accept movement by 1 pixel_.
After slapping myself to stop laughing hysterically, I decided to update the software. Oh god.. here goes;
Installed properly according to instructions. No problems, no errors. Rebooted. And what a suprise: the mouse died. No movement, lights on, no one home. After another laughing session, I decided to rollback; Uninstalled software, reboot, install old software. No change, mouse is still dead. After that, I took more drastic driver killing methods into use:
Uninstalled software, removed mouse/hid devices from cp, erased all mouse related drivers with DCP, even went trough registry and disabled legacy usb from mb. And what do you know.. NOT WORKING!
Oh well, theres always the support site from the manufacturer, right? I went in and dug up some dirt. Only useful instructions were these;
1. Disable legacy support from your MB.
2. Plug the mouse in a different usb port.
If this doesnt work, send the mouse to repair.
COME ON! Thats the best you can do? omfg. You fail.
I haven't had ANY problems with my MX1000 in it's lifespan and I'm thinking of buying another one to replace the old one.
The copperhead can go to hell for all I care. They look really cool, but simply are not reliable enough. If this is the manufacturers idea of reliability and credibility then I don't know how they are still in business.
If you own a Razer product and it works for you, congrats. You should really start betting on lottery.
I do not advice anyone to buy this mouse. I wish I would have stumbled on a thread like this before I bought the damn copperhead
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