winxp thinks my USB GPS receiver as mouse after cold boot (start up)

**aoLhaTer** · 05-24-2005, 02:50 AM

If you want to fix it for good, search for sermouse.sys (in the windows dir) and rename it to something else (sermouse.sys.bak)

**Zebelkhan** · 05-24-2005, 11:40 AM

Originally Posted by aoLhaTer

If you want to fix it for good, search for sermouse.sys (in the windows dir) and rename it to something else (sermouse.sys.bak)

Will I still be able to use the mouse? (USB mouse in the car and PS2 when I take it inside) - Thanks.

**Zebelkhan** · 05-25-2005, 05:36 PM

I did what aoLhaTer suggested and renamed the serial mouse driver file. No more jumping mouse (at least as far as I could tell) and everything works just fine. What is funny is that my carputer booted right up with no problems. Usually I have to push the restart button a few times to get it going....

**aoLhaTer** · 05-26-2005, 03:05 AM

sermouse.sys is the driver for..you guessed it, a serial mouse. USB and PS2 mice shouldnt be effected

**Zebelkhan** · 05-26-2005, 12:03 PM

Okay....It did not work...When I started the computer this morning the jumping mouse was back again. I checked the "semouse.sys" which I had renamed and it turned out that the XP had automatically reinstalled it for me! I guess there was no point renaming it again if XP was going to reinstall it.

So I went into the registery to check on the fix that I had applied before (see above post by ret). I noticed that fix had also been changed back to its original (last number had become 3 instead of 4). Probably it had happened when I removed the craputer to install the XM radio. So I again changed the last digit from 3 to 4.

It now seems to be working again as I rebooted and the jumping mouse was gone. We shall see if that fix will hold when I start the carputer on the way home tonight.

**cederron** · 05-26-2005, 05:00 PM

I think you can disable the auto restore so it doesn't restore the files, but don't ask me how!

**Zebelkhan** · 05-27-2005, 11:52 AM

Several boots and still no jumping mouse. My guess is that because of the change in the PC configuration, windows must have reset the registry when I took it out of the car. After I applied the registry fix again, it looks like it is permanently fixed. I just have to remember to do it every time I take the computer out of the car.