HELP!! New Install (98se) on an old P-133...NO SERIAL MOUSE!! HELP PLEASE!!!

[HardwareAddicted]

I am really red in the face on this dam pc.

I just was helping this guy that bought this for him mom to do simple stuff.

It's an old P-133 w/32mb of simms,intel mb and I can't get it to see the serial mouse.

I went into the bios,com 1 & 2 are on (AUTO)irqs are good too. (com1=irq4,com2=irq3)
No conflicts, just no mouse, I tried two diff mice, I tried two diff com cables...nada.

What the heck am I missing here, OI feel stupid !!

Thx guys.

 

[AC]

Do the serial ports working correctly? I use the DOS ndiag utility from Norton Utilities and a serial loopback plug to determine serial connector problems. You may want to try just getting one of the serial ports to work and disable the other. Also, take out all the other peripheral cards (if any) and try again. It could also be that the serial ports are shot.

If it isn't a hardware problem, then it must be software.

 

[Tominator]

Even if the mouse did not work, the device manager should show it. Did you try adding new hardware? It's possible that '98 did not install a mouse driver if it did not detect the mouse.

Look in Safe Mode and delete any mouse entries there be they PS2 or serial.

I know this is tough without a mouse and only using the keyboard. Btw, I have used a serial pointing device in SE so it isn't the OS.

 

[LevcoS]

This is just a pain in the a$$... I just got done with one of these! Here's how I got it to go:

Delete all COM ports in the device manager, as well as all mouse references.

Reboot; go into BIOS and disable all COM ports.
Reboot. Go into windows; install any necessary chipset drivers (ie VIA stuff). Reboot. Let it load Windows; reboot again. (Yes, it actually took this many reboots. I haven't any idea why... perhaps something glitchy about 98SE's new hardware detection process?)

On reboot, enter BIOS, enable ALL com ports. Windows should now redetect the ports, and hopefully one more boot later, the serial mouse will work.

Note that this process seems necessary ONLY when a serial mouse is installed when windows is first loaded; I've been able to just plug-n-go serial mice on systems that had 98SE installed with ps2 mice, as well as on systems where windows was installed with no mouse at all. Your guess as to why is as good as mine.

LevcoS