serial killer mouse to PS/2

I hope someone can help me here.
A friend has an old pII IBM with a serial mouse and I was going to exchange
it for a better wheel mouse. it started okay but would not see the mouse It
kept doing that I went into settings and enabled the onboard mouse. soon as
entered password it said searching for hardware & then rebooted. They were
on different IRQs 3 & 12. In device manager it only showed the serial mouse.
The OS is windows 98 and I only worked with XP.
Thanks for any help
Bruce

Is the wheel mouse also a serial mouse? Or are you using a different
interface (such as USB) for the wheel mouse?
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Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"Bruce" wrote in message
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I hope someone can help me here.
A friend has an old pII IBM with a serial mouse and I was going to
exchange
it for a better wheel mouse. it started okay but would not see the mouse
It
kept doing that I went into settings and enabled the onboard mouse. soon
as
entered password it said searching for hardware & then rebooted. They were
on different IRQs 3 & 12. In device manager it only showed the serial
mouse.
The OS is windows 98 and I only worked with XP.
Thanks for any help
Bruce