re: USB Mouse problems Win 98 - Laptop
Saturday, November 29, 2003 at 5:20 am
Posted by Gerry Kroll
(1986 messages posted)
Most USB devices require you to install the driver before you plug in the device.
Turn off the laptop and temporarily replace the USB mouse with an ordinary one having
a PS2 connector. On most laptops, the single PS2 connector will take either a mouse
or a keyboard.
After starting the laptop with that PS2-style mouse, install the USB mouse drivers.
Turn off the laptop, and replace the PS2 mouse with the USB one. When the laptop
is started again, the USB mouse drivers should be discovered properly.
Note: I suggest temporarily using the PS2 mouse only for the sake of convenience;
I strongly dislike touchpads or the joystick "mouse" common on some laptops. You
can, of course, use these devices while installing the USB mouse drivers. Good
luck.
On Friday, November 28, 2003 at 11:13 pm, Rhyngyll wrote:
>Hello from across the pond!
>
>My friend took her laptop to be cleaned etc - Clean re-install of Win 98 after putting
>an extra 128mb ram in. All appeared to be working - software etc - connect to net
>ok. When she plugged in her USB Intelli Mouse into the Laptop - the screen just
went
>Black and refused to work. It was working perfectly prior to the shop reinstalling
>Win 98 (Clean).
>
>I have mentioned Device Driver - taking any Mouse off from there - Booting into
Safe
>mode and doing the same. Can anyone help please? I was wondering whether to delete
>any reference to Mouse in Windows and then rebooting for Windows to rebuild files
>- Is this possible?
>
>I appreciate you should be able to Hot Swap USB devices. I would look at laptop
but
>I am hundreds of miles from her and she too shy to come to forum. Thanks
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