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Re: Mouse has disappeared ??

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From: Jos Liem
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 00:00
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Buy a new mouse. Your mouse may be at the end of his/her life.



Tim <news-inbox@SPAM-LESSlocal.mistral.co.uk> wrote in message
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> I recently helped to reinstall Windows B for a friend of mine.
> We had all sorts of problems getting his display to work correctly, but in
> the end it was OK.
> I rebooted the machine several times and still was all OK, so I left.
>
> I have just had a phone call to say his mouse cursor has disappeared!!
> Apparently his screen saver had frozen, he reset the machine, scandisk ran
> (with loads of errors) and then he had no mouse.
> He gets *no* error message to say the mouse isn't connected when Windows
> starts.
> I told him to F8 into safe mode which he did.
> His mouse cursor is fine in safe mode.
>
> The graphics card in question is an Intel 740 (?) AGP 'thing'.
> I had to enable AGP support on the mo'board (installed drivers from
mo'board
> disk) before the card would work.
> The instructions also said to install USB support from the Win95 CD, which
I
> did.
>
> I am convinced it's something to do with this Intel AGP card installation.
> Can anyone suggest a fix??
>
> Many T'sIA
>
> --
> Tim
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> http://www.webmaster-resources.com
>
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From: "Jos Liem" <jos.liem@home.com>
Subject: Re: Mouse has disappeared ??
Date: 1999/03/27
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