"William J. Leary Jr." wrote:

"Baba" wrote in message
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From your feed back (thanks a lot !), I could make out that there are PS/2
ports on the back of the system case. One is used for connecting the
keyboard (without any adapter)

Right. It's a PS/2 keyboard.

and the other, as my previous user informs (the
machine has changed hands), was used for mouse through adapter but since
the
mouse stopped working with the adapter, but worked from USB port directly,
it
was not considered necessary to do anything. I've now got that adapter and
tried myself, but mouse stops working even in normal mode.

Yes, it would if the adapter OR the PS/2 port is broken.

I just want to
confirm that everything is in order except the adapter before I replace
it.
I could search for the exact one on
http://www.ramelectronics.net/html/usb-ps2-adapter.htm named as "PS/2 to
USB
mouse converter" (USB 'A' female to PS/2 male - green colored).

That's looks like the one I'm using right now.

Usually, you can just move the mouse from USB to PS/2 and the system will
see it and work correctly. Sometimes you have to reboot. Somtimes you have
to change something in BIOS or Windows to get it to work on PS/2 after
running on USB. This would pretty much ONLY be the case if your mouse driver
has been set to only look on USB for the mouse. I never changed anything
and could move the mouse freely between the two connectors with only a
system reboot to get it to see it in it's new location.

If you can borrow a PS/2 mouse to see if the port works, you might want to
do that first. Of course, $9 isn't much (and thanks for the link, by the
way) so it's not like it'll cost you a lot if the port itself is dead rather
than the adapter you have now.

- Bill


Bill, I can't thank you enough for your time and efforts in helping me to resolve the issue. Reboot has done all that was necessary.

Regards,

- Baba