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I need help with old socket 7 mobo and mouse. Please help

S

Sniper82

Lifer
My bro bought a K6-2 400mhz mini PC for $75 shipped yesterday. Well lets get to the problem. The mobo is a matsonic(has to be generic as I never heard of them). It has a old style connection to plug the keyboard up to which works but has no PS2 or serial connection for the mouse. This is all it has is a keyboard connection. He included a printer port and PS2 connection bracket that needs to be mounted and plugged to the mobo. I found where the printer port needs to go but cannot find where the PS2 connection goes to? The online manual doesnt say either.

Manual

Also the mouse he threw in is a older serial connection mouse. Luckly I had a serial connection bracket but I cannot for the life of me get the mouse to work? Is Win2000 suppost to detect it? I got the cable from the bracket connected to com1 on the mobo but not sure which way it needs to go on there.

Help me out if you can.
 
What you've got there is an AT-style mobo. Most of them do have a PS/2 connector on the mobo, but otherwise you'll have to use the serial mouse. The serial connector on the mobo should have some ID for pin 1, match that with the red stripe on the cable, just like an IDE cable. Make sure that COM1 is enabled in the BIOS. If you still can't get it to work, try another mouse. I've had some boards where I just couldn't get any mouse to work, had to use an old IDE I/O card and use the serial port off that, as a last resort.

good luck
JC
 
Just took a look at your manual. You don't get a PS/2 connector unless the seller included the 'J1- ATX form connector'. You're prolly stuck with serial port mousing.

JC
 
The PS/2 connector should be a 4-pin connection fairly close to the AT keyboard connector - It's usually not labeled, and is difficult to find unless you know it's there.
 
J1---------------is where it goes on the motherboard. You can order a 'J1- ATX form connector' fairly cheap if you look around


J1 Right above the pci slot /below the agp. I saw it when i looked at the manual. ch2 pg 7
 
Yes the PS2 port bracket has a 5 pin plug but only 3-4 wires are used. I am gonna call the guy today and ask him how he had a mouse hooked to it.
 
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