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Sher
Picking up where we left off yesterday on the serial mouse
thing..
Yes, you've got the whole picture now (I hope). It's
difficult to know what's important. I'd have told you it
was a homemade clone in the beginning if I'd know it was
pertinent.
The operating system (if I understand the question) was
XPHome, updated from Windows98, updated from Windows95.
Is that what your asking me?
The mouse worked great through all these changes. You
mentioned the mouse's CD, but if I had one I can't
find it. I'm very organized at hanging onto that stuff,
but I originally bought the mouse for my husband's work
computer and if it had a CD he may have not brought it
back home from work. That could be problem, huh, since
it's so old. (Tell me when I've exausted all reasonable
hope.)
So, since my mouse used to be able to be detected even
after I'd boot up (cause sometimes it'd come loose and I'd
have to push it in, then it'd work immediately without
restarting) then would uninstalling the drive and
unpluging then reinstalling and then replugging make any
sense to try?
Also, too clarify, I went back to the computer last night
and the device manager shows that keyboard is a PS/2
connection as I first suspected, but that's the only
connection I have of it's type.
My peripheral setup shows that Serial Port 1 is 3F8h/Com1
and Serial Port 2 is 2F8h/Com 2. When I look in the
devise manager the keyboard is using Com 1 and I can't
find anything using Com 2. My original thought was I
needed to get the mouse onto Com 1 or 2, but I don't know
how to do that. The only things I have connected to the
computer right now are the keyboard, Monitor and mouse, so
I don't know what would be using these ports that it would
be conflicting with either.
Thanks for all your patience.
Sher
thing..
Yes, you've got the whole picture now (I hope). It's
difficult to know what's important. I'd have told you it
was a homemade clone in the beginning if I'd know it was
pertinent.
The operating system (if I understand the question) was
XPHome, updated from Windows98, updated from Windows95.
Is that what your asking me?
The mouse worked great through all these changes. You
mentioned the mouse's CD, but if I had one I can't
find it. I'm very organized at hanging onto that stuff,
but I originally bought the mouse for my husband's work
computer and if it had a CD he may have not brought it
back home from work. That could be problem, huh, since
it's so old. (Tell me when I've exausted all reasonable
hope.)
So, since my mouse used to be able to be detected even
after I'd boot up (cause sometimes it'd come loose and I'd
have to push it in, then it'd work immediately without
restarting) then would uninstalling the drive and
unpluging then reinstalling and then replugging make any
sense to try?
Also, too clarify, I went back to the computer last night
and the device manager shows that keyboard is a PS/2
connection as I first suspected, but that's the only
connection I have of it's type.
My peripheral setup shows that Serial Port 1 is 3F8h/Com1
and Serial Port 2 is 2F8h/Com 2. When I look in the
devise manager the keyboard is using Com 1 and I can't
find anything using Com 2. My original thought was I
needed to get the mouse onto Com 1 or 2, but I don't know
how to do that. The only things I have connected to the
computer right now are the keyboard, Monitor and mouse, so
I don't know what would be using these ports that it would
be conflicting with either.
Thanks for all your patience.
Sher