I recall periods when 98SE was having trouble detecting a serial mouse.
The best fix I ever found was to install a DOS serial mouse driver in
CONFIG.SYS or AUTOEXEC.BAT.  Apparently it was easier for 98SE to reliably
detect, and take over from, a loaded DOS driver than to detect the mouse
hardware itself.  Or it may just be that the DOS driver corrected some
initialization of the serial port that 98SE just assumed would be there.

David Gillett


On 3 Nov 2004 at 17:00, Joseph Hallare wrote:

> Hello Listers,
>
> I have noted that my computer (Celeron 266 running Win98SE) has been
> killing mice once a week. It has already gone through 2 perfectly good
> functioning serial mice. At first I thought the mouse died naturally, but
> two in a row? Tried also DOS level driver but that did not work. Alas there
> is no PS/2 socket to insert into. Anybody have any ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Joseph
>
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