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08-01-2001, 07:08 PM
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EEEK! The mouse!
A friend brought his computer over for me to fix. The OS had crashed hard and the mouse didn't work. I elected to format and re-install the OS. (Win98 full retail) The mouse did not work after setup began so I finished the install with keyboard only but still have no mouse. OS reports no mouse found on boot. This 'puter is old and does not have ps2 ports - using ps2 mouse with adapter to serial port. I tried a known good mouse but no joy.
Any suggestions? More: Scandisk at the beginning of setup found some bad sectors which were repaired. Also several files were not found on first startup. I skipped them and continued 'till the system booted fully to the win desktop. It now will boot with no errors except mouse not found. Yarddaawg |
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08-01-2001, 09:32 PM
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First of all, if the hard drive has bad sectors, its life is drawing to an end. Start looking for a replacement. Using a PS/2 mouse with a serial adapter is a crapshoot - sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Get a PS/2 port adapter if the motherboard has a header for one or get a real serial mouse.
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08-01-2001, 10:14 PM
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If the adapter worked before, then it should work again. Check and make sure the Serial port is enabled, and also that its configured correctly.
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08-01-2001, 11:53 PM
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Me thinks it has went ahead and died a natural death. I boot it from a boot disk and the CD-ROM is not found by the BIOS. I boot again and it is. Wierd - never saw this before. Then I boot on up selecting CD-ROM support and the CD driver loads and when boot is finished to the A prompt it shows CD as drive E: and I can then switch to drive E: So far so good. BUT when I type setup, I get bad command or file name.
Oh well - it is an old computer and is runing a cyrex cpu. (may be part or all of the problem) Thanks to all who replied. Da Daawg |
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08-02-2001, 05:11 AM
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You can try this - clean out all the dust thoroughly and reseat all cables, cards, and modules (ram, CPU, etc.). Make sure all the fans are working, and reattach the processor heatsink/fan with heatsink compound. Cyrix processors run very hot.
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08-03-2001, 01:38 AM
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Hi,
Try leaving the boot disc in and typing setup from the A promt. Hope you get on alright. Peter |
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08-03-2001, 02:17 AM
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Yard..
When you boot this computer then just as the screen comes up look at the last line you will see some numbers and then note them down and post them back here - I remember to have had this problem before on a Cyrix Chip based computer - but I need to know what kind of Motherboard it is running on.. Chris(Hpro)
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08-03-2001, 08:21 AM
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Daawg
 Daawg, Take the computer to a repair shop.
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08-03-2001, 01:18 PM
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Yard Dogie
 try a serial mouse instead.
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