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  1. January 5th, 2007, 02:22 AM #1
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    Serial mouse question.

    Hehe, I know it's ancient, but how do you get a serial mouse to work with windows XP? Should you just be able to plug it into the serial port and boot up and have it work?
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  2. January 5th, 2007, 02:35 AM #2
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    I would leave the ps/2 mouse hooked up just in case the serial did not work.

    Let us know how it comes out. And yes, I have had ps/2 and usb mice hooked up at the same time, but could only use one or the other, not both at the same time.

    Mine was to big for mom and her's was to small for me.
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    You will need to modify the Boot.ini file to use a serial mouse. Remove the " /fastdetect" switch, which is there by default, and causes Windows to skip detection of serial mice.


    [boot loader]
    timeout=30
    default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
    [operating systems]
    multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn
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  4. January 5th, 2007, 12:55 PM #4
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    Thats weird, I did not remove the fastdetect but I did change the IRQ value in the bios for the serial port and then the mouse worked.
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  6. January 5th, 2007, 03:33 PM #5
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    Good BIOS.
    What did you change?
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