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Mouse problem: windows fails to detect mouse on boot, but fine on REboot

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Prodigy^

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heya,

i have a logitech wingman gaming mouse, running on win98se, athlon 1.4 ghz, latest drivers incluing for the mouse.

I recently had to put my keyboard on the USB port...since then, the mouse (still on PS/2 via USB adapter) isn't detected and I get a box before login...keyboard works, so I can press enter and get by it, and start windows. then I have to restart via windows, and when i get back into windows, the mouse works fine.

so when i boot from the computer being turned off, it doesn't detect the mouse, but when I REboot, it detects the mouse and it works fine.

any ideas what to do here? :/

thanks
 
As long as you have a USB keyboard and a USB mouse, why not plug the mouse into the USB port as Maggotry said.

Also you could check for a BIOS update. Maybe go to safe mode and clear out ghost drivers (duplicates) that win98 likes to accumulate.

See if this is a windows problem or a BIOS problem by booting to a floppy with a mouse driver and some program that uses the mouse (edit.exe)

I found some HP Pavilion models with USB keyb/mouse had a intermittant problem recognizing the USB keyboard on boot if the mouse was not plugged directly into the keyboard. Positioning your devices differently might help.
 
sorry for the later reply.

it works fine in the USB slot, but i just prefer the movement of a mouse in the PS/2 plug with 200 refresh rate....that's why. oh well guess I'll live without it 😛
 
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