>    I am having trouble getting a serial mouse installed on a system
>while installing Win95 OSR2 on a new Seagate 2.1 gig HD. I tried to
>eliminate defective hardware variables by swapping 2 VX Pro MBs, 1
>430!HX MB (that was running the serial mouse originally), 3 different 9
>pin serial ports/cables, 4 different mice (2 which I know work). I made
>sure that pin#1 was lined up with the red cable wire.
>
>    I have let Win95 search for the mouse, and I've tried to enter the
>serial mouse information manually. The only common variable between the
>MBs is they all have Award BIOS. The other hardware to note: Pentium 75,
>16 megs EDO. I left all other peripherals off to make sure PnP wasn't
>grabbing the IRQs for something else.


Walter
I had this exact problem this past week.  I found that the cables to the
sub-D were defective.  They (com1 and com2 ) worked only 3 weeks ago, so
when I tried a new cable the mouse was found immedately on either port with
the new cable.  Put the old cables back and NOT.  Go figure??
Ron