I've got a mouse problem.

[thegiraffe]

OS = windows95
problem = mouse fault

A couple of days ago the machine was functioning normally with full working order on the mouse, i have now been informed that the mouse is not working, nothing has happened to mouse or board (so i've also been told!) but it won't work.

In devices a problem has been found with the mouse, it informs me to check my mouse driver (and its fine) otherwise it says to refer to the hardware documentation! (right, it a mouse)

I have...

Booted no mouse, rebooted with mouse, mouse has been detected and driver installed, when it gets to login mouse pointer appears in centre screen then disappears without a trace.

Tried a different mouse and seperately installed drivers for mouse (same device error)

Tried mouse in different computer, works just nicely.

ok. is it a problem with my windows not accessing the port correctly, (it does find the mouse and drivers) or is it the port (problem being its part of the motherboard), or is it just simply the motherboard.

Any ideas muchly muchly appreciated! Dave

Theres nothing worse than an idea when its the only one we have!

 

[Mulga]

Could be the motherboard, to check it make sure your mouse is being loaded in DOS, to do this place a copy of your mouse driver in C:\ then you just need a line saying mouse.com or whatever the name of your mouse driver is in your autoexec.bat file, then boot to DOS and open edit, just type "edit autoexec.bat" without the quotes and hit enter. The mouse should be available in edit, if it is not you have a hardware problem. If it works OK it is a Windows problem, may require a reinstall of Win 95. All things are possible except skiing through a revolving door.

 

[thegiraffe]

I got a mouse driver off the net, mouse.exe

Into autoexec.bat i added c:\mouse.exe

On booting to dos prompt it setup all the other things then when it got to c:\mouse.exe it blew me out with

mouse not found.

might make me sound thick but mouse.exe is universal whatever mouse (unless you got scrolly ones and stuff), so does this mean the board is screwed, i'm guessing so but just looking for confirmation.

Well i'm believing them less about the nothing happened to it, oh hang on, computers do that to keep people like me in a job!!!!

Cheers Dave

Theres nothing worse than an idea when its the only one we have!

 

[Mulga]

Definitely looks like sick board.... All things are possible except skiing through a revolving door.