You are welcome. I don't know why two connectors would go bad at once,
unless it were a lightning strike or such. I don't know much more;
perhaps Lil' Dave has it. Well... do the mouse/keyboard work in
DOS...?...

Get a Startup Diskette from
http://www.bootdisk.com/ , if you don't already have one from "Control
Panel, Add/Remove Programs, Startup Disk tab". Test the Startup
Diskette. Boot it, put in a CD and "DIR" the CD. It will say which
letter is the CD. (Otherwise, it is likely one letter higher than
normal.)

To see whether the mouse works...

(a) DIR /s /a C:\mouse.exe
Does it show up?... If so...
(c) C:\Mouse\Mouse.exe
(If that is where it is.)

I believe you should now have a mouse in DOS. A DOS app that certainly
would use it is "EDIT". So...

(d) EDIT C:\Autoexec.bat

(ALT-F-X-ENTER, pressed separately, gets you out, if there is no mouse.
TAB before ENTER, if you've made changes you don't want to keep.)

Do you have mouse control? Then that mouse, I guess, must be good, and
it hasn't been installed properly in Windows.


C:\dir /s /a mouse.exe
Directory of C:\MOUSE
MOUSE EXE 104,556 08-18-99 8:35a MOUSE.EXE


--
Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
should things get worse after this,
PCR

wrote in message
...
| Thanks, PCR, but I can't boot to safe mode cuz the
| keyboard does not function at all, almost like there is no
| connection, no caps light, number lock light, etc - dead
| in the water along with the dead mouse. This happened once
| before and new replacements solved the problem, this time,
| no go. Could it be the connector for the plug on the back
| of the CPU?
|
| Have no fear, you will not be held responsible should
| bodily harm befall me from the wrath of the loved one.
|
| -----Original Message-----
| Can it be they are plugged into each other's socket? (I
| guess, really,
| you'd get a complaint from BIOS, if it were that.)
|
| I'd hate to fool with my own mouse/keyboard this way,
| but...
|
| (a) Boot to Safe Mode.
| (Hold F5 as you boot, or hold CTRL for the Startup
| Menu.
| Alternatively, turn on the Startup Menu at "START, Run,
| MSConfig,
| Advanced button.)
|
| (b) "Control Panel, System, Device Manager tab".
|
| (c) Open the Mouse branch, & Remove every Mouse driver in
| it.
| If there were more than one (& just one is plugged
| in), you had a
| "ghost".
|
| (d) Reboot to Windows Normal Mode.
|
| If it does not automatically detect the mouse at that
| reboot, you will
| need to reinstall it the way you originally did.
|
| CAVEAT: I have a "Readme" that says (speaking of a Device
| Manager remove
| of the mouse)...
|
| .......Quote..............
| Windows 9x and Windows NT 4.0 have the ability to load
| device
| drivers without running the Setup program. Loading the
| devices
| drivers this way, however, does not install the user
| interface
| programs such as the Logitech Enhanced Mouse Control
| Center.
| Using the "Have Disk" function will install only the
| Logitech
| mouse drivers.
| .......End of quote.....
|
|
| --
| Thanks or Good Luck,
| There may be humor in this post, and,
| Naturally, you will not sue,
| should things get worse after this,
| PCR
|
| "HARPO" wrote in
| message
| ...
| | The problem is at startup, the following error message
| is
| | displayed: Windows did not detect a mouse attached to
| the
| | computer......... The cursor sits in the middle of the
| | screen. The keyboard does not respond either. I got a
| new
| | mouse and keyboard (serial), same message. I can't get
| | into anything to see if something is missing. It's my
| | girls computer and Internet withdrawl is setting in. Any
| | help is appreciated.
|
|
| .
|