USB mouse to serial mouse

[Guest]

When I disconnect my wireless USB mouse (which runs out of power to quickly)
and then restart my computer with a normal mouse (green plug) connected the
computer doesn't recognise it! any ideas anybody?

 

[Guest]

It will recognise it if you reboot

You could leave it plugged in all the time and then both mice will work ok

Use rechargeable batteries - I find they dont last as long but are much
cheaper!

Patrick

 

[Jordan]

I noticed that you said that you switch to the normal "green" plug mouse.
That is a PS2 mouse, not a serial mouse. the serial has the D shaped 9 pin
connector while the PS2 mouse has the green round connector.

The motherboard has to detect the PS2 mouse on boot for it to be recognized
by Windows. Some computers require you to power off, not just reboot to
pick up the mouse.

If you power off the computer and turn it on with the PS2 mouse still
plugged into the PS2 port, then:

1. Your mouse could be dead.
2. Your computer's bios my have the PS2 port for the mouse shut off
(Different on every computer)
3. If you are using the PS2 to Serial adapter, the adapter could either be
the wrong one or broken. I have several PS2 MS Mouses (Mice? Meeses??,
whatever) and sometimes I had mixed up the PS2 to serial adapters that came
with them. The different models are not interchangable.