Why does my Power Mac USB port constantly loose power?

Question

I use a Mac at work, and we are unable to upgrade or switch to PC or better Macs due to budget freeze. But our budget is not the only thing frozen. My mouse cursor freezes -- regularly. My keyboard works faithfully, but occassionally a prompt comes up saying it has insufficient power. The mouse is the big problem, as it flashes red (it's a USB wire mouse, not wireless) after extended use of the mouse. The pointer freezes when moving around a lot or when I'm scrolling through a page. I have plenty of memory left and 900 mb of virtual memory. I deleted all Web browser cookies. I emptied my trash. A virus search revealed nothing. A little help? (Please refrain from anti-Mac comments -- I'm doing the best with what I got, and Macintosh has its good points).

A quick click on "drive setup" and a simple update of my Hard Drive under the "functions" tab solved the problem completely. Thanks, Nathan, for the answer, and to those of you who thought about it but didn't know what to say! I'll keep my mouse untangled just in case the wires corrode.

Answer 1

I've come across many a Mac mouse that has problems. The wire is too thin and will "short out" once it's been worn out, and that may be causing your mouse to freeze and the warning message about insufficient power. Mine lasted about a year before having to replace it. Get a new mouse or try one from home for a few days and see if that helps.

Answer 2

lol@ the folk giving thumbs all the way down to NAD. Come on, if someone needs to void their assure and is extremely very delicate with soldering and dealing with wires and circuits, they genuinely ought to do it. Granted, because the question replaced into requested, i doubt the asker has the know how or the favor to do it. and as everybody else suggested, no, except NAD's particularly exciting and entirely available suggestion, its not achieveable to means a workstation over usb.