USB Optical Mouse Losing Power

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Dear FileForums:

Hi. Recently, I started having issues with my optical mouse. This is a USB Microsoft Intellipoint 4.0 mouse. For some strange reason, the mouse will sometimes lose power and will fail to come back on. Then I have to unplug the USB and plug it back in again to regain full power. This seems to happens if I am moving the mouse really fast during games. I've had this mouse since Decmeber 2001 and have had no problems, until now. The first time this happened was when I was playing Dungeon Lords. Now it's also doing it in Half Life 2 and it never did it during HL 2 before.

Is my mouse "on the outs"

Here's my System Specs:

Operating System: Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519)

Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: alienware
System Model: alienware
BIOS: Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 FX-55 Processor, MMX, 3DNow, ~2.7GHz
Memory: 1024MB RAM
Page File: 234MB used, 2226MB available
Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
DxDiag Version: 5.03.2600.2180 32bit Unicode


Thank you for your time.