Optical mouse for Laptop?

[lybush]

Hi All,

I am new to Laptop usage, although I have had PCs for many many years. I just got a used Dell Latitude C600 which has, for a mouse, a small rectangle and a very small little stud to manuever the pointer. It is very sensitive and very difficult for me to use. Also, I don't have the manual for the system.

What I would like to do is add a PS/2 regular optical mouse to the system to use when the Laptop is not mobile.

Question is: Do I have to some how disable the current mouse system and then add the PS/2 mouse? If so, how to disable? I did try a serial mouse, which I am not certain is in working condition, but it did nothing. It looked like the OS, Win 98 SE accepted a new device but it had no affect when I moved it.

Just what need I do to add a mouse and not have to use the current hardware which is so sensitive that the cursor moves all over the screen and is difficult to control?

Thanks,

Len

 

[Skibbi]

with my laptop (a sager) I just plug and play, do it before loading though, as i believe the ps/2 connector can be fickle about that..

although USB should be nicer about it.

 

[lybush]

Thanks, Skibbi, for your reply.

Are you saying all I have to do is plug-in the new Mouse and it should work? Does it disable the on-board mouse devices or will they still be active?

Len

 

[Skibbi]

you know what, I don't have much experience with that...

I've always plugged in a keyboard to my ps/2 slot and an MS Intellimouse explore to a USB slot when its home, and use the pad when i had it on the road/school... For my computer the Pad would still work (for better or worse) when the mouse was in, though it would be an easy bios enable/disable command.


I dont like laptop keyboards much.

 

[lybush]

Thanks, Skibbi, for your continued interest in my problem.

AS soon as I get a working mouse, I'll try it in the pS/2 port.
I haven't checked the Bios in this Laptop yet, so I guess I should. If there is a place to disable the on-board 'mice', I'll do that also.

Thanks,

Len

 

[lybush]

I went into the Cmos and saw entries for the mouse. You can use a serial mouse, just a PS/2 mouse or the integrated mouse and/or PS/2 mouse. Which is very good.

I tried my serial mouse and got the cursor but it didn't do much. Like I said, I don't think the mouse is working anyway.

I went back and restored the internal devices/PS/2 and the first time it rebooted, it said 'no mouse detected'. Naturally, I paniced, but the second time I rebotted, the internals worked again.

I guess I now now what I should do. Get a decent PS/2 mouse and it should work fine.

Thanks for all the help.

Len

 

[Skibbi]

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