Weird problem that is driving me nuts.

[Larkspeed]

The batteries have been changed in both my mouse and keyboard to rule those out, both have a power switch on them and turning them off does not stop it so it's not a stuck key or button.

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[MaddAussie]

I assume you have a usb dongle thingy for the mouse/keyboard, have you tried unplugging that?

[Larkspeed]

that would be impossible to do

How would I think click or press anything after a period of time playing a video to see if it does it.

[Shroom]

So it ONLY happens while watching videos, after about 5 minutes of inactivity after you move the mouse or touch the keyboard.
Does it do the exact same thing regardless of any media type/player? VLC/WMC/Youtube? Can you recreate the problem if you only wait 30 seconds and move the mouse?

It does sound to me like possibly some kind of sleep related thing, not sure if this will help but try this - http://www.sevenforums.com/network-s...ues-fixed.html
And disable hibernate - http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials...e-disable.html and disable sleep settings in Power Management

If not sleep related I'm guessing it's exactly like keyboardemon said and the mouse or keyboard is throwing errors, it would be recommended to test with a different KB/mouse

[Larkspeed]

No it sends the qq to console every time, it only generates the beep when watching video and it is only local video within the network not web based like youtube.

It will not do it after 30 seconds it takes at least 2 or 3 minutes.

It's not the windows sleep settings as they do not kick in until after 45 minutes of inactivity and hibernate is disabled.

I can't afford to buy a keyboard and mouse for the sake of testing so that creates a problem, my wife uses a laptop, my machine has never liked the mouse that's on my daughters Windows XP machine (windows 7 compatibility thing) and the only other machine is a NAS/Seedbox and it is headless with no mouse and keyboard.

If it does turn out to be a mouse/keyboard fault I am going to be royally miffed as this is a logitech set and it was only bought 4 months ago. Yes it would be under warranty but I would then be without my PC while I was waiting for it to be replaced, that is assuming they could recreate the error.

[Larkspeed]

ok another update.

This is really driving me up the wall now.

Just to be thorough I disabled all my sleep settings and it still did it.

I unplugged my Bluetooth receiver and it still did it.

I went next door and borrowed their mouse, turned off my mouse and keyboard and unplugged the receiver and it still did it.

So I have now ruled out sleep settings, mouse, keyboard, M/KB receiver, Bluetooth receiver, USB Hub, Microsoft Wireless XBOX receiver for windows, Logitech webcam, Logitech USB Headset, charging cable for phone, GPU, printer, scanner, virus and spyware.

[blueball]

Your initial post said watching a video file over the network; does it happen if you watch one stored locally on your hard disk?

[Larkspeed]

Yup as stated in my second post

I have essentially given up on this now.

I have tried every conceivable thing I and people here can think of to no avail.

When I get a spare couple of hours I'll just format my machine and reinstall.

[big_hairy_rob]

Have you considered that it's a codex bug? If you're watching the video over the local network it's entirely possible that the codex pack used to decode the video and sound is causing the problem.

I would uninstall any codex packs, and reinstall.

[shaithis]

You don't have an Xbox wireless receiver plugged in by chance?

Also try pulling up device manager and seeing if it starts to add / remove devices while its happening

[Larkspeed]

as I said above it did not only happen when watching videos it happened all the time it only beeped when watching videos all other times it was still sending qq to console.

@shaithis I had said 4 posts above yours that I had already unplugged all usb devices and it still did it.

But as I said in my last post this is all moot now as I have now reinstalled and the problem is gone.

[KeyboardDemon]

Well you can't beat a fresh intall, but it would have been interesting to know what was causing this error and how it could have been fixed in case I ever got the error myself.