GPS Mouse installed as Mouse??

**vxcarpc** · 06-20-2005, 07:58 PM

Has anybody had this problem.. I plugged a GPS mouse USB device into my car pc.. When windows boots up it actually finds the device as a mouse.. when this happens windows boots up and the cursor goes nuts all over the screen obviously because the GPS reciever is not a mouse.. Any ideas? Has anyone else had this issue.. The funny thing is when i reboot a 2nd or 3rd time it stops..

I have been into safe mode and uninstalled thew device and then re-installed it as a GPS reciever.. It's strange..

**Bugbyte** · 06-20-2005, 08:03 PM

Follow the link in my signature to the FAQ Emporium. Check the "Beginner's guide to GPS" (number 4 under "Other").

**vxcarpc** · 06-20-2005, 08:20 PM

Gaaaah! When I plug in my GPS to my serial port, my mouse starts running all over the screen, randomly clicking things!

Your operating system has mistaken the GPS for a serial mouse. Disable the serial mouse.

Ok... thanks.. But my GPS reciever is USB not serial.. Tell me how i can disable USB mouse? My Bios has nothing about usb mouse support. What if i want to run a usb mouse as well as a USB mouse reciever? The reciever isn't plugged into a HUB or anything else.. It's on its own port off the Motherboard.

**thanatos106** · 06-20-2005, 08:25 PM

Originally Posted by vxcarpc

Gaaaah! When I plug in my GPS to my serial port, my mouse starts running all over the screen, randomly clicking things!

Your operating system has mistaken the GPS for a serial mouse. Disable the serial mouse.

Ok... thanks.. But my GPS reciever is USB not serial.. Tell me how i can disable USB mouse? My Bios has nothing about usb mouse support. What if i want to run a usb mouse as well as a USB mouse reciever? The reciever isn't plugged into a HUB or anything else.. It's on its own port off the Motherboard.

What????

The answer is a the empirium like bugbyte said so go

**vxcarpc** · 06-20-2005, 08:45 PM

Ok.. Well after sucesfully having my head bit off after reading the entire "emporium" section I might try a few things listed in there that it could be however still dosen't completely answer my question but anyhow thanks people.. I guess.

**Bugbyte** · 06-20-2005, 08:51 PM

Most GPS receivers that are USB are actually serial. By that, I mean that even though you plug it into the USB port, there is an application that bridges the input over to the serial port. If you had to select a com port for your USB GPS to work, then your GPS can be mistaken by your operating system as a serial mouse.

If not, then I am curious as to the cause. If you find out what it is, please post the answer as I do not believe this is in the FAQ for USB GPS's. I've never heard of a USB GPS doing this.

**thanatos106** · 06-20-2005, 08:55 PM

2 main things:

1.Get the newest drivers for you reciver.
2.check for conflicts in device manager.

Edit:

check this thread and see if you problem is the same:

Delorme Problems

**vxcarpc** · 06-23-2005, 04:01 AM

h i do have latest drivers.. The strange thing is sometimes i could boot up and it will go nuts and hten i hit reboot after not changing anything and it comes up alright.. It's a bit touch and go.. I did try to find a mouse device but when it boots up ok there isn't anything.. only the GPS device.. I might have to boot into safe mode and check it out but thanks for your suggestions..

**Bugbyte** · 06-23-2005, 08:44 PM

I'm still not clear about your GPS mouse. What brand is it? Does it use a serial to USB software bridge app or not?

Is it plugged in to a hub? When you say boot...do you mean resume from hiberate or start from scratch?

**techboj** · 06-24-2005, 06:24 PM

check your bios to see if there is a setting that will allow you to manually set the serial port's address (don't leave it in auto). Some bioses also have a setting to assign interrupts for USB ports / devices - make sure there are no conflicts. If set to auto and Windows boots, it might reassign confilicting resources to the devices / port - even if no serial mouse is actually plugged in