Is the mouse your using a PS/2/serial mouse, or just a plain serial only
type mouse?

I had a system last week that refused to see a Logitech PS/2 mouse with the
serial adapter. Got a plain serial only mouse and everything was okay.

HTH

Jose

Raymond Hornung wrote:

> I cannot get my computer to recognize my serial mouse.  I'm running
> WIN95 on a FIC PA-2002 with a pentium 166 CPU.  The motherboard has
> on-board com ports, I've tried configuring the BIOS to recognize each
> one as COM1 (in the event one was bad) without luck. The board has a row
> of 5 pins that say MS_JMP on one end and PS/2_JMP on the other.  The
> manual gives no jumper setting for these, it only acknowledges them in
> the diagram.  Any ideas?
>
> Ray Hornung