Ken, I have some mice that will do duty either as PS/2 style or, using the PS/2-to-9pin adaptor, as serial.
However, not all mice will do this. You can have a good mouse which will *only* work as PS/2. If the mouse is new, usually the box will tell you if it's double-duty. Unless, of course, it's a no-name, plain-jane, Taiwan special ... :-) Regards, Garry p.s. I'm writing this in Eudora 5, and I'm not sure if I got the HTML setting turned OFF. Anyone out there good with Eudora? At 06:57 PM 10/17/01, Ken wrote: >I have a 486DX33 MS-DOS box, which I can't get to >recognize the mouse, regardless of whether its >plugged into COM 1 or 4. This particular computer >did not have the PS/2 style connector, so I'm using >an adapter plug, to plug the mouse into a 9 pin serial >port. I've run a comtest program I downloaded from >the 'net which indicates the ports are all OK. I >don't see any place in the bios to set up the mouse, >which seems unusual. What am I missing? > >Thanks, >Ken To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
