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Win98 SE does not recognize PS/2 mouse on cold boot, only warm



 
 
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Old June 16th 04, 12:50 PM
Iudith
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Default Win98 SE does not recognize PS/2 mouse on cold boot, only warm

Hi to all this thread participants,

I simply join this thread because I encounter exactly the same problem with the
one raised by Chloe. My PS/2 mouse is recognized only on the second ( warm)
restart.
Another mouse ( an optical mouse ) worked ok, without this problem at all.
Also, I attached a USB mouse and it works ok from the beginning, without any
such problem.

In one of the readme files in the mouse drivers directory ( C:\MOUSE ) I found an
indication that maybe a setting like this in C:\MOUSE\MOUSEDRV.INI file:

[Technical]
ForcePS2EquipmentFlag=On

could help, but in my case it did not help.

I should underline that at the beginning, when I bought my computer, this same
mouse on this same computer worked ok, and both the computer and the mouse were only for a very, very short time in use.
All the problems started when I upgraded from WIN98 to WIN98SE, a.s.o.

If it is some BIOS setting, then I'd like very much to know what could I try to change
for restoring things to normal.
I'm not a hardware specialist, so I'd rather prefer not to try by myself to reinstall BIOS, and such things.
I looked at all the BIOS settings and I found nothing that seems to me to refer
specifically to the mouse, except one USB setting that I set as "enabled" so that the
USB mouse to work.

It looks to me normal that if this PS/2 mouse worked with this computer and with this BIOS, and it also works now, after the warm boot, then the BIOS itself does have the support is needs for using the mouse, just its settings may have unproper values.

My computer came without any documentation ( these are usual things here, however absurd it may sound ! ), so I have no place to look for any explanation.

Any suggestion on which BIOS settings could I try to change that could influence
mouse behavior would be very highly appreciated.

Thanks a lot anticipately for any help & My best regards,
Iudith Mentzel





"Chloe" wrote:

Yes, a different mouse works. A newer Logitech mouse worked. The mouse was
not mine.

No, a different driver did not work.

No, it is not the OS or Windows 98. I booted to the command line in safe
mode and used a plain DOS driver. It did not work on a cold boot.

No, there are no settings relating to the PS/2 port in the BIOS setup.

No, the printer is not on.

No, there is no PS/2 category in the BIOS startup screen.

It must be a BIOS or hardware problem. There must be a utility to initialize
the trackball on startup. I don't even know if I have the latest BIOS. The
versions on this page do not make sense:

http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWeb/Downloa....aspx?DetailID
=269&DetailName=BIOS&DetailDesc=K7S5A%20Pro


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From: Gary S. Terhune )
Subject: Win98 SE does not recognize PS/2 mouse on cold boot, only warm
boot (reboot)
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion, alt.win98, alt.windows98
Date: 2004-05-26 00:26:24 PST


Some BIOS utilities have settings that affect this, but I see nothing in the
manual for that mobo.

Have you tried a different mouse? Just to see if it's specific to the one
you have, or an issue with the mobo?

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP for Win9x

"Chloe" any_color_u_like @ yahoo_dot_com.com wrote in message
...
When I cold boot my Windows 98 SE computer, Windows does not recognize the
PS/2 (PS2) mouse. It gives the error "Windows did not detect a mouse
attached to the computer. You can safely attach a serial mouse now. To
attach a mouse to a PS/2 port, you must first turn the computer off." When

I
warm boot it (reboot), it works fine and recognizes it. I've searched all
over the internet but can't solve this problem.

The mouse is an older Digital Research trackball (model DRTRACK). It

worked
with my last motherboard on cold boots, with the same OS.

The motherboard is an ECS "K7S5A Pro 8/11/2003 S".

Safe mode does not detect the mouse either (on cold boots).

Removing the mouse driver and all related registry keys and cold booting
does not help. The next warm boot recognizes the mouse as a Microsoft
compatible and installs the driver and it works.




 




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