Mouse killer?

[Fading Phoenix]

I wasn't exactly sure what thread to post this under, so opted for the general hardware. My father built a computer about a week after thanksgiving and in the time since he has had two wireless logitech mice mysteriously stop functioning. The first one shortly after the computer had been put together, on one of it's first runs. The second mouse just died earlier today, it stopped responding after a screwy install of Creator 2009 that has been giving him troubles. We've tried the mice on other computer still with no response. He also has a Saitek joystick for flight simulators that has a built in mouse controller, and though we're not sure if it's related it acts a little funny to, I believe he said he could get it to move up and down the screen but not across.
He had had both of the wireless mice for years prior with no issues. Is it possible at all that the computer is somehow damaging the mice? Or is this really just an extreme coincidental suicide on both accounts?

 

[lowteckh]

Check for cats, rat poison, cheese.

Did you try the mice on a separate computer?

 

[SLiGuy]

If you're having problems with your Saitek joystick as well then it may be the USB port. Try it in another USB port and test other devices in it as well just to be sure that it's indeed your mouse that's faulty.

 

[Fading Phoenix]

We've tried both the mice in other computers with no luck. I don't believe we've tested the saitek in any other computers though, but we have switched the usb port it was connected to.