First post, by Jester
I have this 486 system ive been putting together. It can be finicky cuz it’s old and occasionally I must reseat the controller card or the 4x4mb 30pin ram or I’ll get the long beep at power on.
https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/jetway … -v2.0#downloads
The last piece of the puzzle is getting a serial mouse to work. I have some Logitech mouseman mice that come with the green ps2 to serial adapter. The frustrating thing is that I never got mouse.exe from Logitech 7.x or 8.x installs to recognize the mouse.
Syschk.exe shows valid com ports but sometimes the com port shows a ? question mark in place of an assigned irq . I’ve tried several controller cards, one goldstar Isa and another eide vlb which gives same results. Is it possible that the motherboard is the problem? The jetway board has an ami bios and it’s the one that is supposed to have mouse support for changing the options. I don’t like it and wish I could hot flash it to something else. I don’t see any mention of serial or com port options but I guess that’s because that isn’t on board. There’s only a “mouse support enabled” option under advanced.
Thanks for your suggestions.