Broken Mouse Wheel?

[jlau703]

Today when I turned on my computer, I noticed that my mouse wheel does not work. When I try to scroll down with my mouse wheel, the screen would go down a little and then automatically move back up. If I continue to scroll down the mouse wheel, the window will just continiously move up and down. I tried reinstalling the driver and it doesn't work. I am using the mouse that came with my Dell desktop. I tried plugging a USB mouse in and it works fine. I am pretty sure that my mouse is not broken since nothing really happened to it since it worked the time before I turned on my computer. Thanks in advance.

 

[BionicJohn]

If cleaning the mouse internals doesn't achieve anything, junk it and stick with the mouse that does works.

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[jlau703]

Thanks for your advice. I am just surprised that it is a problem with the mouse itself because scrolling the mouse wheel is still very smooth.

 

[felixc]

If you have time you can try to open it and clean around where the wheel is. It may just be dust on the internal optical wheel.