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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