No Wake on Mouse

[fatboyjim]

Hi again guys,

I recently changed my PS/2 mouse which worked fine with a serial mouse (the PS/2 mouse didn't have very good tracking on the screen and only had 2 buttons unlike this mouse on COM2 which has 3.

When my PC goes into suspend mode though (3 beeps/hard drive power down/CPU fan down etc) I cannot use my mouse to wake up the machine. This wouldn't be so bad but the mouse doesn't work after this unless I restart the machine. (The machine still works with keyboard shortcuts as if you had no mouse - it hasn't crashed)


I would appreciate any ideas to fix this problem

Jim

[glc]

You need to go into the power management in the bios and make sure the IRQ that the serial port that the mouse is using is enabled as a wakeup event.

[fatboyjim]

I have gone into the BIOS and POWER MANAGEMENT. The COM ports are set as Wake-up events and they are in white (they cannot be disabled as wake events)

There is also a heading called Modem Use IRQ :

I think this is either set to 3 or 4. Should this need to be changed (there is not much else in power management and nothing I can see about making individual IRQs wake-up events)

It is an Award BIOS - ALI Aladdin V chipset - Gigabyte GA-5AX board

Jim

[glc]

Modem use IRQ should be set to N/A unless you use the modem as a fax machine or answering machine or dialup server.

I personally use no power management at all - and just turn off the monitor when I'm not around or asleep. I see no advantage whatsoever in letting a computer put itself to sleep and power management can be (and usually is) a big headache.

[fatboyjim]

Thanks for your help, I couldn't get it to work in the end but I had the drivers for a logitech mouse installed already and if I go to control panel and click on mouse my mouse wakes up again

Removing the old logitech mouse drivers would probably fix the problem? But I can't be bothered at the moment. Yes, it is one BIG headache!

Jim