Thread: Geniuses Needed - Mouse Won't Work

Well, I fried my motherboard last week and had to find another one. Put it in and everything works great, except I can't get my serial mouse to work. I need the serial mouse to work so I can use MouseRemote.

Configuration is:

Win 98
P/S 2 mouse connection on board
2 serial ports
On Board Sound - Disabled
Soundblaster sound card

Helpful Info.:

Windows device manager does not show the mouse.

The PS/2 mouse works fine.

When I disconnect both the serial and PS/2 mice, I do not get the windows "No mouse found" message during boot. Every other computer running windows has given me that message if no mouse is connected.

Does not work even if I try to manually install a mouse through control panel. The standard serial mouse will then be shown in device manager, but the mouse won't work.

Windows PnP does not find the mouse.

I have tried using different ribbon cables for the serial connection to make sure the problem wasn't cabling, but that doesn't help.

I have tried a different mouse to make sure there wasn't a problem with the mouse.

Device manager shows all com ports working properly without conflicts.

I have tried it with everything but the mouse unhooked/unplugged and still no change.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

Kevin