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need help installing a serial mouse
I remembered back in the dos days that your serial mouse works in the
bios so I think it is not true. The drivers does not have to be recogized in order to use the serial mouse. I know that the serial mouse is very hard to find. I found this company on the internet that is still selling the serial port mouse. If you are looking for one this is where I bought my serial mouse. http://www.hardwarecooling.com/produ...roducts_id/443 I hope that helps. "Papa" wrote in message ... Thanks for letting us know the outcome. As I recall, I think I had to do the same thing once. By the way, I recently purchased an optical USB mouse for about $10. "sgopus" wrote in message ... I figured I needed to post my results just to let you know. I had to give up on the serial mouse, it just won't work. however I did locate the USB connection on the mother board and I just happen to have a two port usb card, I plugged it in, and used my optical usb mouse, VOILA it works.. now I need to get with him and discuss his buying a USB mouse. I think I'm give him my copies of ME since I don't use them any more.. many thanks for your help.. -----Original Message----- Great. Congratulations, you did your friend a big favor! "sgopus" wrote in message ... I found the cable is available, both the keyboard and the mouse can share the same ps/2 port, boy working with these older computers is a pain... but it's for a good cause a friend in need that has little or no money for a working computer! -----Original Message----- I've tried two so far, part of the problem is the irq conflict with the modem, com 1 shares the same irq as the modem card, windows wouldn't even boot while the modem card was installed, and with no mouse, I find it Extremely hard to reconfigure things. I got an adapter so I could use a standard mouse, not a serial mouse -----Original Message----- Try a different serial mouse. I've run across the same problem, and discovered that some so-called serial mouses really were not. "sgopus" wrote in message .. . I am working on an older pc 486, with a serial mouse using com 1, I thought I had the proper drivers for win98 but nope it doesn't recognize the mouse, I seem to remember back in my dos days, that dos has to see the mouse before windows will recognize it, is this true, and if so how do I get dos to recognize the mouse I gone into the bios, no ports are disabled TIA . . . |
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