Where can I buy that mouse at?

J3SteR727 wrote:

Where can I buy that mouse at?

Here is a brand new Microsoft mouse with included serial adapter (the adapter do not work with other mice) in the US, not exactly cheap.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEW-Microsoft-Mouse … 9YAAMXQDnpTasU-

Go bus mouse for retro goodness! Then track down a serial printer for more pain.

Ok I think I found a cheap Serial Mouse on Ebay im going to try. Few other issues im having.. Where can I get the PCI bracket with a serial adaptor on it for my motherboard. I bought one before and the connector did not match the pins on my motherboard. Need it for the Tomato 4dps v2.1. Also my keyboard has the Rollover issue where sometimes a key acts like it is stuck. Either the arrows or the shift key will do this. Whats a good keyboard to get??? AT or PS2 will work, I have tried 2 different ones with no luck..

Thanks a lot.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/PS-2-6-Pin-Mini-Din-F … moAAOSwHaBWhUV8

This will work with any PS/2 Ball mouse, just won't work with an Optical Mouse.

J3SteR727 wrote:

Ok I think I found a cheap Serial Mouse on Ebay im going to try. Few other issues im having.. Where can I get the PCI bracket with a serial adaptor on it for my motherboard. I bought one before and the connector did not match the pins on my motherboard. Need it for the Tomato 4dps v2.1. Also my keyboard has the Rollover issue where sometimes a key acts like it is stuck. Either the arrows or the shift key will do this. Whats a good keyboard to get??? AT or PS2 will work, I have tried 2 different ones with no luck..

Thanks a lot.

There are two common wiring schemes for the serial port headers, you can probably rewire the cable on the bracket you have to match your header.

Someone here can probably tell you how the header on your board is wired.

Totempole wrote:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/PS-2-6-Pin-Mini-Din-F … moAAOSwHaBWhUV8

This will work with any PS/2 Ball mouse, just won't work with an Optical Mouse.

It will only work on PS/2 mice that can also negotiate a connection with a serial UART. That's not dependent on the mouse tracking mechanism.

If you can live without a scroll wheel yet do not like unreliable cursor movement and constant ball polishing... GO OPTICAL :

http://www.ebay.com/itm/D-Serial-Optical-3-Bu … 4kAAOSwv0tU-mln

The PS/2 stoped after flash 4.00 bios?

My 4DPS mouse and Floppy does not work with this bios version.

Even making sure that PS/2 is enabled using a bios editor software.

Bang... everyone should learn reading again 😀

Mut nailed it right, this issue about the 4.00a bios was reported long ago by feipoa on the 4dps thread.

So simply go back to either 1.72f or the one modded by feipoa. Both can be downloaded from vogonsdrivers 😀

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Did you check the fuse?
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Ugh this is frustrating... I now have a serial mouse and I bought a Startech serial port cable. Hook everything up and nothing, even if I connect the ribbon cable backward. Im sure it's probably a different pinout. Anyone know a serial cable I can buy that is confirmed working for this board? Or should I just get a ISA multi io card?

Jolaes76 wrote:

Bang... everyone should learn reading again 😀

Mut nailed it right, this issue about the 4.00a bios was reported long ago by feipoa on the 4dps thread.

So simply go back to either 1.72f or the one modded by feipoa. Both can be downloaded from vogonsdrivers 😀

Aw damn totally missed this post doh. Now I feel stupid 🤣. Gonna get that modded bios. Thanks!

Ok maybe im blind, but I don't see feipoa's modded bios on the drivers site. There is the 4dps collection but that's it. That is the bios I used to flash to 4.00, was from that collection.

I went ahead and flashed back to 1.72f and now my keyboard doesn't work... Good thing I have a rom burner but still..

Wow must apologize for my ignorance... Two of my PS/2 mouse wires were touching on the mobo connector. This was causing my keyboard not to work, Now with bios 1.72f everything works. Still would like to Flash to the Modded 4.00 bios if someone could please point me to the file. Thanks for all the help everyone...

I suggest staying with the offical 1.72f or 1.72f without the funworld logo (this is feipoa's mod):

Re: Zida 4DPS

here is 4.00a (at the end of page 1) if you insist, but it will only bring you trouble, IMHO:

My first 5x86 build (also motherboard component level repair)

(I thought you would find all major versions in the 4DPS BIOS collection. My apologies. I think there is no fix or mod for the 4.00a BIOS yet. The guy who made 4.00a said -long ago- that he fixed the issues but that bugfixed version disappeared from the internet)