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| Thread ID: 85197 | 2007-12-03 03:00:00 | no mouse detected on win98se machine | Ravage (6815) | Press F1 |
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| 617540 | 2007-12-03 03:00:00 | Howdy I have recently acquired an old Intel 1000MHz pc with 512 Mb ram which I was setting up for a friend. The hd has been formated and I installed win98se on it. A few weeks later I got around to installing the various programs and utilities he wanted. All was fine. The next day I installed several older games (heroes of might and magic 3, age of kings, star wars galactic battlefront and Tiberian sun). While testing the last game installed (Tiberian sun firestorm) everything froze (mouse and keyboard) forcing me to reset via the power switch. When it rebooted it came up with an error box saying "No mouse detected", something about having to reboot if a ps/2 mouse is connected and that a serial mouse could be used straight away. A ps/2 mouse was connected, rebooting gave the same error. Tried a different ps/2 mouse, same thing. Tried using a ps/2 to serial adapter in the 2 available serial ports with no success. Also tried 2 different USB mice, one being an optical mouse, still "no mouse detected. You could see the optical mouse powering up when the PC reboots but as soon as it reaches the desktop screen the mouse LED switches off and "no mouse detected" No changes had been made to the hardware or bios when it happened although I have since had to change the fdd. Any ideas what the problem is or how to fix it? Anything I could think of requires a mouse to get in to ;) cheers Ravage |
Ravage (6815) | ||
| 617541 | 2007-12-03 03:08:00 | Whats the brand/model of the system? Sounds like it maybe disabled somewhere. If it was going previously. Are all the updates for 98 installed? When you plugged a USB mouse in, did you plug it into the USB port, or into a USB hub? |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 617542 | 2007-12-03 03:16:00 | Boot into safe mode with the PS2 mouse connected into the PS2 port - (usb wont work in 98/safe mode) To enter safe mode keep pressing F8 on startup. using the arrow keys select safe mode. See if it detects in safe mode. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 617543 | 2007-12-03 05:13:00 | Howdy Had already tried in safe mode same error message. I hadn't installed the updates, of course now I can't ;) The USB mouse was tried in 4 different usb ports, 2 onboard, 2 add ons connected to mobo. No hub used cheers Ravage |
Ravage (6815) | ||
| 617544 | 2007-12-03 05:31:00 | Did you actually go into windows with a USB mouse connected? - Not just until that error came up? Windows would need to load fully and then detect the USB mouse and install the drivers for it before it will work. I would also go into the BIOS and see if there is an option to enable Legacy USB or similar. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 617545 | 2007-12-03 05:45:00 | Assuming it will go into the options to select the start modes, using the keyboard select "command prompt only" type in scandisk Hit enter - let it scan the disk fully- you must let it finish if you dont it can cause problems later. When it finishes (Important) you move the cursor to exit, you will be back to a black screen with the C:\> type in win (IMPORTANT) you will have C:\>win Press enter and leave it to reboot - if you don't the dos command can lock the system. You can also add in any switches you want Eg: scandisk /all OR Scandisk /autofix To See what all the switches do type in scandisk /? If its not working after scandisk, you may need to try a live CD, something like Knoppix (www.knopper.net) boot from the CD and it will pick up the PS2 Mouse, if this doesn't detect the mouse then the problem is a possible hardware failure caused by the freeze / Crash. You can also try running a reg check from command prompt type in scanreg if that doesn't work, you can try scanreg /restore and select a reg backup hopefully from when it was going OK. What ever you do make sure you exit the command prompt as I mentioned above C:\>win |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 617546 | 2007-12-03 06:04:00 | Try a Serial Mouse, not a ps2 on an adapter, in my experience they rarely work. | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 617547 | 2007-12-03 06:06:00 | Hi Yes windows did fully load when trying the different mice I could hit enter to get rid of the error message, I could also ctrl-alt-del I just couldn't move the cursor. The first time I put the mouse in each of the usb slots it automatically installed the drivers, it just didn't help. I'll have a look at those dos commands at home cheers Ravage |
Ravage (6815) | ||
| 617548 | 2007-12-03 06:09:00 | I don't have a serial mouse unfortunately Ravage |
Ravage (6815) | ||
| 617549 | 2007-12-03 08:24:00 | To add a serial mouse you would need to run the Add New Hardware wizard for Windows to pick it up. | CYaBro (73) | ||
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