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I solved the problem by adding an expansion serial card.
Chuck Finnigan
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> At 08:51 PM 11/03/1999 , Chuck Finnigan wrote:
> >hi,
> > i switched a supermicro (P5STE) motherboard (cyrix 166+ cpu, 64mb
RAM)
> >into another system (different case, PS, hard drive, expansion cards) and
> >now i can't get the system to find the mouse (MS Serial). i installed
W98,
> >have tried different connections (onboard port), mice, messed with the
BIOS
> >settings, all to no avail. this MB had worked for years with a mouse.
what
> >could be wrong?
>
> The worse case scenario is that you damaged the motherboard or even just
> slightly stressed it during the move... and the motherboard is ruined.
>
> Another issue could be a compatibility issue between an I/O card in
> the bus slot that is causing the issue. The best thing to do is remove
all
> but the video card... then boot from a floppy disk with a mouse driver on
> it. You should be able to get the mouse to respond with just a basic
> DOS driver on a boot disk... then, add back in your I/O cards until
> you find the problem. We have a couple of DOS mouse drivers in our
> download file area you can use: http://nospin.com/pc/files.html
>
> Start from scratch and get the mouse to work with a bare bones system
> and slowly put it back together.
>
> Bob Wright
> The NOSPIN Group
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