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More info?)
In "device manager" - does the comm port show up and is it functional?
It would be found under the "Ports (COM & LPT)" tree and labeled
"Communications Port (COM1)" or "Communication Port (COM2)" etc. You
may need drivers for the Comm port it self, since you have a vintage
PC without any PS2 ports - WinXP may not have native drivers to
support it.
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<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Fallen on hard times right now but let me try to ask this
> question more precisely.
>
> I reformatted my harddrive and now my mouse doesn't work.
> I have Windows XP Home and did have the same before the
> reformat. The mouse worked fine before I reformatted.
>
> The mouse is functional on other computers.
>
> It's a Logitech trackball mouse with a PS/2 connecter into
> an adapter connected to a serial port in my computer.
>
> I have installed the proper XP driver for the mouse from
> Logitech.
>
> I have only a serial port and no PS/2 port.
>
> The mouse is not being detected at the serial port but I
> do get the message that it's detected "at an unknown port"
> and is non-functional.
>
> I don't know if the mouse works in Dos (it's been 15 years
> since I worked in Dos and I didn't have a mouse, so I
> don't know how to use one in Dos.
>
> I think this is the question (and the wording is hard to
> convey) -
> It's either, How do I direct my mouse to be on the serial
> port so the computer finds it there at startup - or - How
> do I get the computer to detect the mouse at the serial
> port at startup.
>
> I'm sorry if I've been confusing, it's hard to find the
> answer when you don't know how to ask the question. I do
> appreciate your input.
>
> Thanks
> Sher
>
>