It has been a few years, but I recall encountering a problem similar to
this, specifically with a PS/2 mouse rather than a serial mouse.

  What I found worked was to install a DOS serial mouse driver, loaded by a
line in CONFIG.SYS or AUTOEXEC.BAT.  Somehow, this would force Windows past
the point of detecting whether a mouse was present and get it to the point
of loading a mouse driver, at which point it would then load the correct
driver for the PS/2 mouse.

  (If yours is not a PS/2 mouse, this might not work for you.)

David Gillett


On 13 Dec 2003 at 3:17, RANDY ISHERE wrote:

> i have a older computer with window that came with win-95, and was upgraded to 98se, the problem is it wont detect the mouse, ive uninstalled it and put it back in, still nothing? im a beginner so any help would be appreciated

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