Connecting Serial Mouse with XP

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Bill Grieco

The laptop that I have does not have an external ps/2
port. When I try to connect a serial mouse, it is not
recognized by XP.

I checked the bios settings and serial port is enabled
and I know that the mouse I am trying to connect with is
operational.

What do I need to do to have XP recognize the serial
mouse?

--Bill
 
C

Courtney

Make it USB. Microsoft made the decision to not support some legacy devices.
Unfortunately, serial mice is in that list.

The easiest way I have found in that situation is to install a USB PCMCIA
card, then install the mouse as USB.

Courtney sends....
 

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