First post, by mallensw
Currently I am requiring assistance in getting a proper serial mouse working with windows 95 or 98se. This is what I know thus far. The motherboard is a Zida 4DPS. The mouse is a 2 button (no wheel) beige MS proper serial (no adapter) mouse that works. The COM ports are enabled in the system bios and set to COM1 3f8 IRQ4 COM2 2f8 IRQ3. In both windows 95 and Windows 98se I get the usual "windows did not detect a PS/2 mouse, its now safe to attach a serial mouse" screen when windows loads. I plug it in, press the o.k button, windows finishes loading, and the mouse does not work. Currently I have windows 98se installed. I have also loaded ctmouse in the autoexec and when i boot to command prompt only the mouse will work in DOS. If I boot into windows safe mouse, mouse does not work. In device manager it shows both com ports and the correct addresses and IRQs that are shown in bios. When I run the add new hardware in control panel windows finds nothing. This is baffling me to know end. This mouse will work DOS but not windows. I have also tried to manually install the MS standard serial driver in the device manager and still no result. Lastly I have also confirmed that this is not a bus mouse. Not sure if anyone has come across this issue before but any assistance will be greatly appreciated.
