Try disabling/enabling com ports in the bios. Some combination will work. If
not the connector needs new ribbon cable to the i/o controller; a new physical
port connector may be needed.

Dan Dillon

At 10:04 AM 8/29/98 -0400, you wrote:
>I could use some help with a problem that I haven't come across before.
>My old computer, a Gateway 486 33MHz which I need to tap into some 16
>bit programs somehow had developed a problem with the original Microsoft
>mouse.
>
>When I boot up, it recognizes the mouse as being on COM2 and using the
>IRQ 3 which on MSD seems to have no conflict, but the mouse arrow stays
>in the center and isn't working.  The serial COM port was seated
>properly.
>
>Any ideas?  I’d appreciate any help with this frustrating problem.
>
>George Kaufman
>
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