Serial Mouse Problem

I have an old computer, a pentium 133 mhz with 32 mb ram running windows XPSE
which a friend gave me recently. It had no mouse, so I had to buy an old
serial mouse as it only had a serial port and no PS2 port. I booted up and
installed the mouse drivers and everthing worked great. However, as soon as
I turned the power off and rebooted, I got the message that windows had`nt
detected a mouse, and I had to reinstall it, restart and then the mouse is
fine again. The mouse is fine if I do a restart, but whenever I turn the
power off it disappears! Does anyone have any ideas what might cause this?
Many Thanks
--
geoff

Have a look in the BIOS setup program and make sure that
the serial port that the mouse is on is enabled. Or make
sure that a setting called something like Plug and Play OS
(PnP OS) is enabled.

It looks as if Windows has to install the mouse driver
every time Windows starts, which it wouldn't have to do if
the BIOS settings were correct.

See this page on the BIOS if you don't know what it is:
http://www.pcbuyerbeware.co.uk/BIOS.htm

Eric,
http://www.pcbuyerbeware.co.uk/
http://www.sharedbirthday.co.uk/


-----Original Message-----
I have an old computer, a pentium 133 mhz with 32 mb ram
running windows XPSE
which a friend gave me recently. It had no mouse, so I
had to buy an old
serial mouse as it only had a serial port and no PS2
port. I booted up and
installed the mouse drivers and everthing worked great.
However, as soon as
I turned the power off and rebooted, I got the message
that windows had`nt
detected a mouse, and I had to reinstall it, restart and
then the mouse is
fine again. The mouse is fine if I do a restart, but
whenever I turn the
power off it disappears! Does anyone have any ideas what
might cause this?
Many Thanks
--
geoff
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