On Tue, 20 Apr 1999 15:35:18 -0400, Gerardo Medrano wrote:

> Hi everybody: I have been troubleshooting a computer recently and I have
> been finding strange events. For example, when I reboot the system the
> mouse is not detected. When I remove components one at the time I found
> that the floppy drive data cable conflicts with the mouse because when
> is not connected the mouse works fine. This puzzles me. I checked IRQ
> and they are not conflicting with these two resources.

Hi Geraldo,

Try replacing both cables.  Cables going bad is something that most of
us overlook in troubleshooting.  Perhaps one or both got nicked and are
shorting across.
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