I just moved into a new place, and my WMO is acting up. When I plugged it in to the same port as I had it before it was 500hz fine, but then I noticed while playing Q3 that the mouse felt like it was performing at 125hz at random times. I checked the rate again and it was spiking from 500 to 700, even 800, completely unstable.

I rebooted and had the same issue, so I tried other ports, overclocked to 500hz, and it appears fine right when it's performed, but if I go try it again an hour or two later, it's back to the 500-800hz issue.

Is this WMO dying? I'm pretty sure it's relatively new, I bought it off a defrag buddy, he got it somewhat recently.

I don't know if I need to start playing around with motherboard drivers, or if this is a common occurrence of a defective WMO.

Any help is appreciated, thanks :)

EDIT: It appears it's going down...the max that happens now is 200hz...

Is there another mouse hz rate checking program I can use?