Ι got a serial to ps/2 adapter for using a ps/2 microsoft ball mouse on my pentium I win95 pc but when I plug my mouse the cursor does not move.
It's like nothing is connected.

I never used a mouse with this computer because I was lazy to search my stuff for an adapter and the win95 installation was done without any mouse attached although there was a serial mouse config in device manager.

The motherboard only has a serial port and no ps/2 so the only way to plug a mouse is to either find a serial one or use an adapter.

So,when I first connected the mouse although I got no hardware wizard when the pc booted I checked device manager and it seemed to recognise the mouse but with the yellow question mark.
The mouse was dead ,no movement.
I thought that it may conflict with the serial mouse config already present in device manager (although I never plugged a serial mouse in this machine)

I deleted both serial mouse and ps/2 mouse and restarted.
Nothing.

Then I added both standard ps/2 and microsoft ps/2 mouse at the add hardware wizard one after deleting the other and rebooting.

Still nothing.

I don't really know what's wrong.

I think that my serial port is functional because how else the first ps/2 mouse would appear in the device manager?

But after that I get nothing no matter what I do.
I also tried ps/2 to usb adapter and plugging a usb mouse but it didn't work.

Anyone have a clue what I could be doing wrong?