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Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: jim.mar on January 17, 2006, 03:24:43 PM

Title: Mouse doesn't work with PS/2 adapter.
Post by: jim.mar on January 17, 2006, 03:24:43 PM

I have a friend who fried his computer pwr supply when his power line neutral broke.  It was an old Dell (about 1996 mod).   I removed his drives and reinstalled them in an even older tower with a mother board and CPU already mounted.  This tower did not have the standard PS/2 connectors for the keyboard and mouse.  The mouse is connected to a serial input port with an adapter (9 pin serial port to  PS/2).   I manage to boot up Windows 95 but I get the message “This computer does not detect the presence of a mouse.  Shut down windows to connect a mouse to the PS/2 connector”.  And, sure enough, I do not get any response from the mouse.   The BIOS is setup with “AWARD SOFTWARE INC”  (Now PHEONIX).   The CPU is an Intel 1 (or 486),  I have searched through the BIOS setup and chipset setup trying to find a problem with no results.  Any suggestions??  My friend has little money and I am trying to keep cost down.  I feel the problem is probably very simple but beyond my scope.  Thanks for reading this,  Jim

Title: Re: Mouse doesn't work with PS/2 adapter.
Post by: Computer_Commando on January 17, 2006, 05:00:42 PM

I think Windows 95 requires a driver for a serial mouse.

Title: Re: Mouse doesn't work with PS/2 adapter.
Post by: dl65 on January 17, 2006, 05:21:39 PM

I seem to remember win95 requires a driver for pretty much everything ......

I would concur with Computer_Commando

Hope that solves your issue

dl65  ::)

Title: Re: Mouse doesn't work with PS/2 adapter.
Post by: jim.mar on January 19, 2006, 10:54:43 AM

Thank you guys, that was exactly the problem.  I dind't have a mouse driver for Windows 95, but I switched to a trackball and installed it's drivers.  Thank's again,   jim