I usually have a backup mouse in case my wireless mouse batteries get drained.

I happened to plug in a different mouse into the computer recently , a belkin optical mouse, and I started having problems after i rebooted.

Basically, the computer wouldn't boot to windows. It would get to the Windows screen and then keep rebooting over and over and over.

I spent a couple hours messing around with the computer and realized it was the mouse that was causing the rebooting. (Once I unplugged it, everything was normal)

Just curious if this has ever happened to anyone else? never heard of a mouse doing that.

I had a Win98 machine that rebooted every time I hot plugged a new, non-USB peripheral...

Is it a USB mouse or PS/2? If USB, there might be something wrong with the mouse, or with your USB port/controller chip. If you are on 2000/XP, start Windows *without* a mouse, let everything come up, then plug in the problem mouse, preferably into a different USB port than the one you tried. See if the detection messages/errors pop up near the right-side of the taskbar, and what else happens...then post it here.

You need to get one of these

or one of these

USB optical mouse. I'm running XP. I'll play around with it later tonite and report back.

If you can get me the Dump File I can analyze it for you.

If you can get into windows look for files with a .dmp extension.

Also you could try pressing F8 as the computer starts go into safe mode and remove the driver or if you have system restore on you could try that if it will boot in safe mode.

Also if you press F8 last known good configuration may work if you have not been able to log into the computer since it started rebooting.