I was gifted a Toshiba Satellite 100CS and a Satellite PRO 420CDT, but unfortunately I cannot get a PS/2 mouse or the Toshiba Accupoint to work on either one now.
I can confirm that when I was first gifted these laptops the Accupoint (nub on the keyboard) worked, but they have sat in an air-conditioned room in the house for about
5 years since being looked at again until now.
I've tried a PS/2 keyboard on the PS/2 port and confirm it works fine, but a new PS/2 mouse (New Perrix bought online for around 10 dollars)
does not respond on either, same goes for the Accupoints on both laptops. This includes using the original hard disk with the OEM Windows 95 installation, or using my IDE to SD card adapter and a fresh Windows 95 install.
Uninstalling and reinstalling mouse drivers doesn't seem to make any difference, it's very strange. No apparent IRQ conflicts, and the circuit boards look phenomenal,
no leaking capacitors on the motherboard, and all other devices work perfectly.
Checked that the ribbon connectors are connected nice and snugly as well.
I've read that the Accupoint devices were a fairly common failure point, I'd be fine so long as I could get the ps/2 mouse to work.
I'm hoping there is something else I may have overlooked. I also tried renaming / removing AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS.
I was able to buy a replacement CMOS battery as well as a replacement main battery pack, and this system works so phenomenally for classic games, and no mouse is the last thing I need to overcome.
Has anyone else ever run into a similar problem with Windows 95 and ps/2 mice being troublesome?