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serial mouse doesn't work

Original Message
Name: K
Date: August 9, 2001 at 04:36:04 Pacific
Subject: serial mouse doesn't work
Comment:
I see a mouse-pointer but it doesn't do a thing. I have a serial connected mouse and according to the ready list that should work. But the mouse-pointer doesn't movem and I can't do everything using the keyboard.


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Response Number 1
Name: Aaron Stevenson
Date: September 9, 2001 at 18:17:24 Pacific
Subject: serial mouse doesn't work
Reply: (edit)
Try using Com2 instead of Com1 for your mouse input.

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Response Number 2
Name: darikonline
Date: October 9, 2001 at 15:48:40 Pacific
Subject: serial mouse doesn't work
Reply: (edit)
Iīve got the same problem, but I think you should check te state of the option Serial Port in your bios settings. By the way, it didnīt solve the problem with my pc....

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Response Number 3
Name: Frustrated
Date: December 3, 2001 at 18:53:21 Pacific
Subject: serial mouse doesn't work
Reply: (edit)
I'm also having the problem. I'm trying to restore some old computers and I can't get the serial mouse to move. It's not even detected. I've checked the port in BIOS and DEVICE MANAGER, driver, etc. Everything looks go, but I think there is something I have to add to the config.sys and autoexec.bat files. Anybody know?

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Response Number 4
Name: Mike D.
Date: December 11, 2001 at 14:23:51 Pacific
Subject: serial mouse doesn't work
Reply: (edit)
I have the same problem. I have a Logitech, so I went to their site hoping to download a driver that will work with XP, and they had a note that said that XP doesn't support serial mice anymore. Does anyone know if that's true?

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Response Number 5
Name: gaurav
Date: December 23, 2001 at 23:26:14 Pacific
Subject: serial mouse doesn't work
Reply: (edit)
try changing your com port cable.


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Response Number 6
Name: Bill Williams
Date: February 2, 2002 at 21:16:55 Pacific
Subject: serial mouse doesn't work
Reply: (edit)
I had the same problem (no mouse pointer after installing Window's 2000) on a pre-1996 Aopen PC (bios old enough that it would not recognize a hard drive larger than 6.4 gig). I finally called Aopen and the techie told me to "disable com1 and com2 in the bios and then in my windows 2000 device manager then reboot and re-enable in both in the bios and then re-enable both in the device manager.? I worked! He said it had to do with a device conflict and that Windows needed to "manage the device". I'm working with an ASUS VX97 motherboard right now.....(same problem) and what I mentioned above.... did not work with this motherboard. I'm still experimenting with it if anyone has another idea. For what it's worth the Aopen was a AMI BIOS and the ASUS is an Award BIOS.

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Response Number 7
Name: Chris
Date: February 3, 2002 at 08:19:52 Pacific
Subject: serial mouse doesn't work
Reply: (edit)
I was also trying to get some old PC's working. I was banging by head against wall for hours, checking for com port conflicts etc. I basically had a PS2 mouse going into a mouse adaptor (for serial) when i finally discovered that my mouse was not "combo" in other words, it wouldn't work with an adaptor, bought a new mouse, it worked great! Check that your mouse can work both as a serial mouse and as a PS/2 mouse before getting to deeply into conflicts and bios settings! Check out this link:

http://www.pcguide.com/ts/x/comp/micePS2-c.html;.////////////
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Response Number 8
Name: asaf
Date: February 27, 2002 at 20:53:14 Pacific
Subject: serial mouse doesn't work
Reply: (edit)
serial mice do work on xp , i have microsoft mouse and it work like hell.

try to tell the bios the the ps2 port is disable and the serial port 1 is 3f8 on com1

it may slove the problem


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Response Number 9
Name: Todd Ryder
Date: March 17, 2002 at 15:33:23 Pacific
Subject: serial mouse doesn't work
Reply: (edit)
Same issue as Chris. Mine was not a real serial mouse and I was using a converter. When I connected an old serial mouse I had around and rebooted, It worked fine.

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