> 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