First post, by mothergoose729
I have an msi ms 5146 motherboard, which is AT style with an AT DIN keyboard port, and a JMS board header for the ps/2 mouse.
I bought a PS/2 bracket with 6 pins, and 5 wires, and lined it up so that the red wire goes into the first pin. When booting windows 98, I can see the laser in the mouse flicker some, but then windows complains that it can't find a mouse. I cant' get the mouse to work. I tried plugging the header in a different way and no luck either.
I went into the bios and made sure that Ps/2 function was enabled. It says that the ps/2 mouse is on IRQ 12, which is PCI/ISA pnp, as set by default in the bios. I am having a really hard time sourcing headers for this port, so I actually can't buy another one because this is the only one I have been able to find. Any ideas on how I could get this to work? I really don't want to buy a serial mouse.
My board also has a USB header, but the pinout is not standard, it has power and ground in slightly different place and no empty pin/key pin. Is there an adapter I can buy to convert it to a standard header? Could I then just use a usb mouse and keyboard?
My primary motivation for this computer is DOS via windows 98. When booting into pure DOS mode, can I make use of a USB mouse and keyboard for pure dos games? Would it be worth while to pick up a PCI USB addon card? Any thoughts on this would be very helpful.
Socket 7 MSI 5146
MMX 233
Cirrus Logic 5446
Diamond Voodoo 4mb
ESS and Auzen ISA sound cards
8GB compact flash via IDE adapter
IDE optical driver
