To Chuck <[email protected]>

[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

 

[D.Currie]

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

Either you have an incredibly weird computer, or we're just not using the
same words to mean the same things.

First of all, there are NO pc keyboard that use serial ports. Your choices
are PS2, DIN5, and USB. So maybe we need to take a step backward and see
exactly what you're calling a serial port and how you have things plugged
in. Maybe start by describing what the plug at the end of they keyboard and
mouse look like, then describe what the adapter looks like, and/or what the
input looks like on the back of the computer that you're plugging these
things into.

Or better yet, it might be faster and easier to find a neighborhood teenager
who knows a little about computers to come over and take a look at how
you're plugging things in.