Thread: The Phantom Mouse

Hi,

When my PC is in the car I occasionally get phantom mouse events. I can see the mouse moving and clicking on things !

Anyway, I guess this is one of two things:

1. Bad/noisy power (Sproggy DC-DC).
2. Interference from something else in the car.

However, if I plug a mouse in the problem disappears. So for a quick fix (until I shield/ground everything), I was thinking of grounding the data line in the PS2 port for the mouse. Here's the PS2 pinouts:

1 DATA
2 No connection
3 GND
4 +5V
5 CLK
6 No connection

The PS2 is numbered as follows:

.6.H.5.
4.....3
..2.1..

So my question is -- can I just short between pins 3 and 1, or should I use, say, a 10k resistor ?

Spud.

[ 02-15-2002: Message edited by: spud ]