mouse serial problems

[lord rahvin 0]

hi im having trouble getting my mouse to work.

My mother board doesnt have ps2 connections for my mouse so its serial. I

dont get any cursor on the screen

I thought an irq conflict could be a problem so i changed them around plus

the memory range but to no luck.

Not sure if anyone else has had this problem.

But any advice would be appreciated .

thanks

Email: lord_rahvin@hotmail.com

[tristan777 0]

hmmm.... my friend tried installing win2k on one of his other comps. he's already running it on his main one. and he couldnt get the serial mouse to work either. the ps2 adapter is broken or something i think. all i can say is check and make sure com1 is working properly and if it is i dont know what to tell you except if your mobo supports it definately hook up your ps2 port. other than that i think you might be screwed. the only solution he found was to install win98 again. hmmm... well just know that you arent alone.

 

-tristan

[euankirkhope 0]

Best bets is that there is something called acpi installed in your PC. Its a type of hardware management that is supposed to be more efficient, but with some motherboards (mostly socket 7) it doesn't quite work right.

 

For now you can try this (with no need for a mouse):

 

press windows+break

hold ctrl and press tab until you get to hardware

press alt+D

press tab to highlight you computer name

then press down to go to Ports (com + lpt)

press right then select the port you mouse is connected to, press enter. If the Device status windows says something is wrong, and states that it assumes the device is not a com port, or mentions "latch", or data being wrong, then continue... (if its says there is a resource confict then skip the rest)

tab to cancel, press enter

press up to go to Computer

Then enter it by going right then down.

If it says "Advanced configuration blah blah blah"...

Press enter (if not skip the rest)

Ctrl+tab to get to driver

Press Alt+P (update driver)

Press enter

press alt+D (display a list...)

Enter (pc goes hunting)

tab to show... and select "show all..."

Tab back to models and select "Standard PC"

Press enter and follow the instructions (i'm not going any further, cos it'll waste alot of my time undoing it )

 

Windows should be restarted after up[censored] the driver.

 

If your mouse starts working then you have either a non-conformat bios (get updated one from manufacture website that states ACPI compatibilty, or stay as it in standard PC mode)

 

If you have a resource conflict then restart the PC and press "del" at the power on bios screen (power on self test). Goto you peripheral setup and see what the com ports are set to. There shouldn't be anything wrong here, as you probably had the mouse working fine in win9x or whatever you may have had before.

 

If neither the above are correct then maybe it is a video card driver problem, but that is less likely, and would go away if you start up in safe mode.

 

You might want to print that out (if your printer works or your at another computer).

 

Have fun

 

 

[This message has been edited by euankirkhope (edited 10 June 2000).]

[lord rahvin 0]

thanks heaps for your help its very much appreciated, I tried everything u said, but no luck :-(

thought about flashing my bios but decided against it. I ve worked out a safer method go down to the shop and get a generic ps2 connector and hook it up to my motheboard. lol

should have thought of it earlier (nahh the guy who put together the system should of,instead of being stingy)

but yeah thanks alot and may good karma go out

[euankirkhope 0]

Send me your Mobo details and I'll sort out your serial port problems. At the moment I have ACPI enabled, but my com ports don't work. TO get round this I have my PS2 mouse connected to the PS2 mouse port on my mobo (need proper cable, and mobo pins that doesn't fake it, and connect to a serial port). My yamaha Midi ports are connected via an old serial I/O port on its com1, its LTP1 is used for my playstation dual shock in win98. The mobo's com ports are disabled in the bios setup, and the LPT port (set to LPT2) is uses for the printer. This way everything is at least functional.

 

If you tried setting the PC to "standard PC" it should have fixed everything, did it? If it didn't you need to delete the com port from device manager, and redetect it after a reboot, and/or add new hardware.