Hi guys. So my A4Tech serial mouse won't work in windows 3.11. It works fine in dos, using either cutems.exe or mouse.com. Actually it doesn't even work in windows setup... Anybody encounter something like this before?
Yes. You need to tell Windows 3.11 what type of mouse it is in it's setup routine. It doesn't rely on the dos driver once you've loaded windows. You can do this by typing setup from inside the windows directory in dos.
When you restart windows you should see a mouse pointer.
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I did. At the first setup screen it detected the mouse as "Logitech" but after it was done installing, the mouse didn't work. I tried ALL win3.11 drivers, none work.
If for example I run command prompt under win 3.11 and run cutems or mouse.com and launch notron commander, the mouse will work - but as soon as I return to windows it stops working.
Ok, here's what I've done so far:
- tried running win3.11 with a dos mouse driver running (tried both cutems and mouse.com)
- tried reinstalling win 3.11
- tried changing mouse driver from windows (everything from the genius, logitech, mouseware and microsoft drivers)
- tried a different serial / i/o controller
- tried switching from com1 to com2
None of the above got mouse to work in windows...
From my Dosbox guide
When you choose the Tseng drivers when you install Windows, the mouse pointer might not be visible. To fix this go back to the DOSBox prompt, change dir to the Windows directory ("cd windows") , run setup again and then choose the VGA or SVGA drivers that come with Windows 3.1x. Start Windows again (your mouse pointer should be visible now) and then run setup from inside Windows to choose the Tseng drivers.
This might be applicable to real hardware as well. So changing graphics drivers might work for you as well.
I did not install any graphics driver yet - I'm using the VGA driver win3.11 installs.
Maybe changing it will work, give it a try.
It did not...
Sorry, worth a shot ;(
🙁 this is driving me nuts...
Try the drivers from this page http://freshreviews.biz/searches/result.php?q … driver+download
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A founding member of the 286 appreciation society.
Apparently 32-bit is dead and nobody likes P4s.
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The link points to an .iso file...
It's a 133k *.exe What OS and browser are you using?
Try putting a copy of mouse.com in the windows directory.
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A founding member of the 286 appreciation society.
Apparently 32-bit is dead and nobody likes P4s.
Of course, as always, I'm open to correction...😉
Does the mouse have 3 buttons and a switch on the bottom? Make sure its set to 2-button/Microsoft mode.
wrote:It's a 133k *.exe What OS and browser are you using?
Windows 8.1 x64 + latest version of chrome.
wrote:Try putting a copy of mouse.com in the windows directory.
Ok I'll give that a try.
wrote:Does the mouse have 3 buttons and a switch on the bottom? Make sure its set to 2-button/Microsoft mode.
It has only two buttons, no scroll wheel, and it has no such switch. It will only work in microsoft mode. Like I said, it works fine in dos or dos games ran under win 3.11
I copied mouse.com in the windows folder, it still won't work...
All I had similar issues with my serial Logitech mouse. Dos perfect win95 perfect win311 fail. Thus it could only be a sw issue. I managed it by using the Logitech mouseware 6.3 software / lmouse driver included. Mouse works flawless afterwards.
So it indeed was for me an incompatible Logitech mouse driver provided by win311
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Have you tried not loading the mouse driver before running windows 3.11?
A few times that solved the problem for me.
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