Wheel not working on mouse

[kgeissler 0]

I was running W2k on my old PII-400 with my mouse working fine, wheel and all.

 

Now when I went to my Athlon 800, I formated and reinstalled Windows 2000. The mouse works, but the wheel doesn't.

 

I checked the mouse properties and have it set to "Assume Wheel is Present".

 

Any Ideas?

 

TIA

[hteles 0]

Go get your old PII ;(

[tinhead 0]

what type of mouse?

 

microsoft has drivers for its line (that seem to also work with other brands) at:

http://www.microsoft.com/mouse

 

(and you don't need to have to waste your time by having a previous (buggy) version of the intellimouse drivers installed)

[kgeissler 0]

It is just a plain MS Mouse. I went to MS website to download the Intellimouse drivers, but it said you needed v1.1 installed for them to work. I don't have any Intellimouse drivers. Does anyone know here I can get them?

[kgeissler 0]

I got it working. I unplugged the mouse and plugged it back in.

 

I don't get it. If the connection was loose, why did the mouse work?

 

Go figure.

[Damien 0]

A loose connection might not cause the mouse to stop working, however, it might cause it to report itself wrongly. A reconnection usually causes the computer to reconfigure itself - in your case it looks like this is exactly what happened.