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On Tuesday, April 19, 2016 at 2:22:19 PM UTC-4, Ian Field wrote:
Recently, my Logitech mouse went tits-up and took the entire motherboard
USB
subsystem with it!

The MOBO is still useable, but sometimes there's weird "artifacts" on the
video. A USB expansion card has solved the interface deficiency.

My question is; are Logitech mouse notorious for this failure mode?

I went through a lot of USB optical wheel mouse that I didn't like, then
I
got the Logitech which was OK - till this happened.

Thanks for any help.

push hole in bottom rear mouse restores to pre-Logictech

Apparently I may have jumped to conclusions.

The BIOS setup seems to have a ready supply of nasty surprises. For one
thing it forgets which drive to boot from at the slightest provocation - I
already tried a replacement battery, then another in case I got a dud.

Something else flipped at random so it wouldn't boot, so I hit F6 for
restore optimum defaults and then made sure the boot priority was right - it
booted, and the USB subsystem was back. Now I know I restored defaults
previously and it didn't get the USB back then.

This also wipes out the excuse for occasional video artifacts. This board is
probably in its death-throes.

The board is an MSI 945GZM and has a normal looking CPU cooler - a spare MSI
board I have is a 945P, but it has a huge cooler that overhangs the board
and won't fit a case with drive bays. Any idea what are the chances of the
Intel 945GZM cooler being OK on the 945P?