Disconnecting from modem causes mouse to "drop"

[dansleight]

Running Win98SE

When I boot up, everything works fine.

When I connect to the internet (via modem), everything works fine.

When the modem disconnects, the mouse appears to "freeze". The cursor won't move. What's weird, is that I can still use it. I can click and drag on the desktop to select things, I can navigate through menu's, works like a regular mouse, except that the cursor isn't "attached". I have tried 2 different modems (a serial port modem and a pci card modem), and 2 different mouses (kensington and microsoft). I've update the drivers for all to the most current, and even updated the bios on my MB (K7M).

Can anyone help me?

 

[rfeenie]

sounds like a clash of some description. what type of mouse are you using serial or ps/2 ? is you have ps/2 go for that instead of serial. if serial mouse try it on com2 irq3.

 

[dansleight]

My mouse is a ps/2 mouse, and the mouse and modem use different IRQ settings, and I can't change either of them.

 

[Comtech]

It sounds more like a video problem. If the mouse still works, and the modem connects and disconnects with no other problems, the video just can't update the screen to reflect cursor movement.
You could try updating video drivers to see if this helps. A more drastic solution would be to move the modem to a different IRQ/slot in your computer.
It may be something as simple as changing the pointer for your mouse (control panel, mouse, pointers tab).

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