Serial Mouse

[Guest]

When I start up XP my serial mouse is not detected. Right now I have to go to Add New Hardware and detect it. It the registers the serial mouse and begins to work. I was wondering if I had to set the serial mouse as a defalt or what

 

[S.Sengupta]

Hi,
Delete the Mouse from the Device manager and reboot, to let windows
reinstall it.Get the latest Drivers for you mouse.
If this doesn't help then you have to do the following:-
If you have a serial mouse on COM1 or COM2 that occasional fails to be
detected at startup, you can just fiddle with connector, without the
need to reboot, by adding value entry OverrideHardwareBitstring as a
type REG_DWORD to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Sermouse\Parameters

A data value of 1 indicates that the mouse is installed on COM1 and a
data value of 2 specifies COM2.

This entry causes the driver to load, even if the mouse is not detected.

regards,
ssg MS-MVP
pronetworks.org

 

[~ Suzi ~]

I have the same problem but with a different device,..
it's to a weather station.....I have to "disable"/"enable" the port
for it to work again at each startup.

any help would be great. i'm really getting tired of doing the
"disable"/"enable" thing all the time.

Thanks

 

[~ Suzi ~]

I have the same problem but with a different device,..
it's to a weather station.....I have to "disable"/"enable" the port
for it to work again at each startup.

any help would be great. i'm really getting tired of doing the
"disable"/"enable" thing all the time.

Thanks