Studio Laptop 1558 Giant Mouse Cursor Randomly

Sounds like you inadvertently turned on Magnifier. Turn it off. It usually is listed when you press the Start button. If it's not there, find in under Ease of Access in Control Panel or just type Magnifier to have it popup at the top of the column.

No, that's not what happened.  If you search Google, this is a common Win7 problem with the Radeon card, and there are hotfixes for the PCI and PCIe versions, but I can't find one for my laptop.

if anyone has a link to the proper driver, or a hotfix that would be apprecaited!

Thanks,

got the same problem with the mouse cursor. I confirm it's not the magnifying application. I'm looking for fixes for my studio 1558 too.

I have the exact same laptop. I found a solution, and you don't have to quit any of your programs by restarting your system. You can fix this problem, note that it's not permanent and you must repeat the process if the problem is to reoccur, by simply restarting your drivers. To do this easily, you can simply go into ATI Catalyst Control Center and select the "Desktop Properties" section under the drop-down menu "Graphics", which is situated in the top left hand corner of the window. Once inside the "Desktop Properties", change the rotation of the screen to whatever you like, and simply press no when it asks you if you would like to keep these properties. When the rotation is changed, the driver is restarted and your mouse is returned to normal size.

Edit 1: Also note that you must be in ATI Catalyst Control Center Advanced to do this, not basic.

Also having the same issue at times, regardless of Catalyst version.  It's not a Dell-only problem, btw.  I'm presently running 10.4 on Win7x64HP.  Easiest fix?  Right click the desktop, click screen resolution drop it down a notch, hit apply, then revert.

Yeah, anything that can restart the driver will do that. You can also fix it by changing the screen orientation under screen resolution. It does the same thing, and just click revert. It'll be fixed after that. Sometimes switching users works too, but not all the time.

 Yup that works... resetting the screen size will reset the pointer.

Seriously, I have had nothing but trouble with this laptop and windows 7... from Mickey mouse stuff like this, to the laptop freezing and randomly rebooting daily.  I think I'll re-install my old XP on the laptop, this OS is just plain trash.

I have a feeling no one at Dell actually reads these forums, and it seems like once the cpu is out the door, they have no interest in you as a customer anymore (Unless you want to buy move stuff from the million emails I get)...

Anyway, the fix that works for me was to right click on my desktop, choose Screen Resolution and change it to something, click apply, then revert back to the original settings.  Since I have to do this 20-30 times a day, I just leave that window open.

Seems like a pretty unstable system over all, this is the least of my problems with this laptop!!

I'm also waiting for a dell solution/reply. I have a studio 1558 with mobile radeon 5470 also. I found that the least ugly way to mask the problem is to enable mouse tray at minimum. I fear that must be a amd issue because it has been them the common link in this issue on all sites I looked...  

I've found a simple solution to this annoyance. Just start Magnifier (adjust to 100%) and the pointer will go back to normal. I've pinned it to the task bar. It will go big again if you close the Magnifier.

About time someone from Dell replies!

I called "Support" about two weeks ago, and gave them this post to document in the ticket... never heard peep back from them...

Thanks for bringing this up to our attention.  I will alert the appropriate groups and post updates when they become available.

Thanks for helping us out, Terry. I hope this hotfix works even though this fix is from 2009 and I'm running the latest version of Catalyst.

Can you please be kind enough to look at this issue as well: Dell Studio 1558 Freezes? Lots of people are having this problem without getting any good answers from Dell support.