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| Thread ID: 22346 | 2002-07-18 11:14:00 | My computer is allergic to a PS/2 mouse | Heather P (163) | Press F1 |
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| 63383 | 2002-07-18 11:14:00 | Celeron, Win98 SE and a PS/2 mouse. Last weekend the time had come for a nice reformat. Lots of minor reasons. Ran fdisk, reformatted and started the reinstall. It crashed. After numerous attempts - removing hardware as I went - it finally worked. It was the mouse what done it. Reinstalling without it, just using keyboard commands, solved the problem. Put mouse back in, loaded Norton anti-virus - and it crashed on install. Have now swapped to a serial mouse, disabled PS/2 mouse in BIOS and peace reigns. Anyone else with a computer allergic to mice? Or is it just mine? Any ideas if it's just the one mouse or a problem with PS/2 mice in general? Heather |
Heather P (163) | ||
| 63384 | 2002-07-18 23:23:00 | I would suspect the mouse itself. Try another PS2 one and if the same problem then it would be like I said the first time - the PS2 port. (hey, I am covering my bases) robo. |
robo (205) | ||
| 63385 | 2002-07-18 23:30:00 | I'm more inclined to give the "#@!" mouse to my husband rather than risk it myself. On second thoughts.... I invariably have to fix his problems too, usually whilst I'm trying to do something else. Feeling somewhat bruised by the experiences of the last week I'm sticking to a serial mouse for the near future. It works. I just wondered if others had hit this problem. Heather |
Heather P (163) | ||
| 63386 | 2002-07-18 23:31:00 | I had the same problem on a PC a few years back . Any PS2 mouse I plugged in would not work . Serial did . Lkke you I went with the logical solution and didn't bother looking any further, lazy bastard that I am . . . | Biggles (121) | ||
| 63387 | 2002-07-19 00:12:00 | Thank You Bruce!! It wasn't me teetering on the brink of insanity! Someone else has had the same problem. I feel much better now. Who would suspect a mouse? The process of elimination had it quite a long way down the list. Heather |
Heather P (163) | ||
| 63388 | 2002-07-19 00:48:00 | I had a similar problem more recently (well, yera or 2 ago) with USB . It was V1 USB on the motherboard I think, but no matter what I did I couldn't get it to see my USB mouse . It was probably the whole USB port (I didn't have any other USB devices around to test it with) . I ended up using the serial port again . But there were no device driver conflicts, etc to indicate a problem . Since that motherboard went away I've had no further problems with USB or PS/2 ports . Sometimes, trackign a problem down just ins't worth the effort if there is a workable solution . . . | Biggles (121) | ||
| 63389 | 2002-07-19 05:53:00 | Funny how those problem motherboards 'go away' ;) | wuppo (41) | ||
| 63390 | 2002-07-19 06:05:00 | Real wo(men) don't use a mouse... | Dolby Digital (160) | ||
| 63391 | 2002-07-19 08:40:00 | Don't you mean - Real Men Don't Eat Quiche? | Heather P (163) | ||
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