On 30 Nov 2002, at 6:55, MICHELE SAYER wrote:

>  Has anyone come up with any suggestions at all to my problem yet?

  YEARS ago, I remember having a problem with a couple of machines that
would only occasionally detect a PS/2 mouse on startup.  I don't recall
whether the OS was 95, 98, or 98SE, but "Pentium I" sounds about right.

  The solution that seemed to work at the time was to load a DOS serial
mouse driver via CONFIG.SYS.  Somehow, that would convince Windows that it
really should look for the mouse, and it would find it just fine every time.

David Gillett

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