Serial to PS2 Conversion for Mouse connection

[Garet Jax]

Hello all,

I have an older Asus TXP4 motherboard that uses a regular 9-pin serial connector for the mouse. I have a PS/2 mouse I would like to use for it and thought that buying a "Belkin PS/2 to serial adapter 6 pin mini-din female-db9" adapter would do the trick. When I plugged the mouse into the adapter and the adapter into the computer, the OS (Windows NT Server) didn't see the mouse. However, it sees the mouse fine when it is a straight serial connection mouse.

I know the PS2 mouse is working fine because I use it on all the other machines.

When this didn't work, I thought it must be the adapter. So I went and bought another Belkin adapter. It too didn't work. Same result.

Normally I would just use the serial mouse, but I have all my machines hooked up to a Belkin KVM with PS/2 connections for the mice and the keyboards. This is the only computer that would need an extra mouse.

I have a couple of questions:

1) Has anyone successfully hooked up a PS/2 mouse to a computer with a 9-pin serial mouse connection? If so, what adapter did you use?
2) Has anyone successfully hooked up a PS/2 mouse through a Belkin KVM to a computer with a 9-pin serial mouse connection? If so, what adapter did you use?
3) Does anyone know of another PS/2 to 9-pin serial connector that I can try to use to solve my problem?
4) The adapter I bought mentions 6-pin in the title. I am thinking that since there are 9 pins in the serial mouse connection, the adapter isn't mapping one of required pins. Is this possible?
5) Any other ideas to solve my problem.

Thanks a lot.

 

[Garet Jax]

Someone has to have successfully connected a PS/2 mouse to a regular 9-pin serial port.

 

[Challenger]

Did you use the Add New Hardware Wizard to detect it?

 

[dkozloski]

A PS/2 mouse is a PS/2 mouse and a serial mouse is a serial mouse. A PS/2-Serial mouse is a different animal altogether that incorporates different wirng so it can work as either one. The adapter you bought just takes care of the mechanical part of getting it to plug in but it doesn't do anything for the missing wiring. In short, you are barking up the wrong tree. This is one of those questions that seem to repeat from time to time.

 

[eplebnista]

Here are a couple of links to some mouse info.

Info page 1

Info page 2

hth,
eplebnista

 

[Challenger]

That second link was a good read

 

[ObiDon]

<< I will become royal crown chinpoko master! >>


Someone has been watching a little too much South Park!



<< Logitech mice are bilingual. If you plug one straight into a PS2 port, it will notice and speak PS2 protocol. If you put on the special Logitech adapter (which looks for all practical purposes identical to a useless PS2->serial adapter, except IT ISN'T. >>


That's what I was about to say. Except...

One of my mice is a retail-boxed Logitech First Mouse + which comes with that PS/2-serial adapter. I liked it enough that I bought a few more of the OEM version of the same mouse. They look exactly the same except that the Logitech logo is black and white instead of colored.

One day, I wanted to hook up the OEM mouse to a computer without a PS/2 mouse port. I figured I just whip out the Logitech adaper and mouse away since it's the same mouse. Wrong :| When it didn't work, I ended up trying the two mice on two different computers with and without the adapter. Of course both mice worked and only the retail mouse worked with the adapter. What were they thinking?

I should have opened them up just too look inside but now I don't have the OEM mice anymore. Oh well.

Oh yeah, long story short...it's probably your mouse, not the adapter

 

[Garet Jax]

Thanks for the responses everyone.

I talked to Belkin (my KVM manufacturer) and they said that even if I get a combo mouse (PS/2 and serial capable) that I will not be able to use my KVM with the serial portion of it.

Short of spending money I don't want to spend, it looks like I am stuck with using two mice for my setup :disgust: