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Old June 26th 03, 01:24 AM
byteryder
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Default Mouse doesn't move

On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 16:43:56 -0500, philo
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byteryder wrote:
On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 13:50:34 -0500, "philo"
wrote:


"byteryder" wrote in message
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A couple days ago my kids mouse quit workin on his old pentium 200. It
was a serial mouse and was fairly old so I just went and bought him a
new one. I hooked the new one up and it still didn't work.

I checked all the settings in the control panel and they all seemed
right. I also rebooted and went into the CMOS to see if anything had
been disabled.

I finally got frustratedwith all the crap he had booting in the
background everytime I re-booted that I formatted the hard drive and
re-installed windows... thinking maybe he had messed up his drivers
somehow.

Stil nothing....... Now after all this he tells me, his mouse was
snaggin under his desk and he had given it a good YANK. I checked the
pins and they all SEEM fine, but I'm not sure if he somehow damaged
the serial port etc.

Is there any way to test the port????



did you get a real serial mouse
or did you by a ps/2 mouse and then use an adaptor you already had?

unless the mouse was designed to be used as serial or ps/2 it won't
work

if youir kid yanked on the cord, he could have damaged the mouse
but it's not likely he hurt the port itself
but it would not be a bad idea to open the case and check inside to be sure
the wiring didn't come off


The Original Mouse was a REAL serial mouse. I couldn't find a real one
at Futureless Shop, so had to buy a PS2 mouse and adapter to fit the
ps2 mouse and the serial port.

I also just changed the cable that cmes off the motherboard to the
serial port, thinking maybe he broke the connection at the pin, but
still no luck.


ok
then you will have to get a real serial mouse


Just bought a REAl serial mouse and installed the drivers.... Windows
boots and comes up with a message saying there is no mouse attached.

I then deleted the mouse in the controll panel\system\deviices (?) and
reinstalled the driver for that mouse etc. ...... same problem. The
time I'm killin tryin to fix his computer... I might be cheaper to buy
him another one :-)

ANY ideas would be appreciated