🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sun, 14 Sep 1997 15:23:38 GMT, mick@addnet.demon.co.uk wrote:

>Apologies if this is the wrong news group for my query.
>Can anybody please help me with the following problem?
>
>My mouse works perfect in all applications ( dos and windows ) untill
>I enter Microsoft Diagnostics Ver 2.01. It still works o.k. untill I
>enter either Com Ports stats or IRQ Status stats, whereupon the mouse
>just locks-up. Everything works o.k. by keyboard commands, but I have
>to reboot the computer in order to get the mouse working again.
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>I am using Windows 3.1 with Dos 5, upgraded to Dos 6.2,
>Pentium Triton TX motherboard with AMD-K5-PR133 processor,
>and Award Modular Bios V4.51PG. 
>
>The mouse is installed on Com1 with the following settings:
>03FE
>IRQ 4
>
>Many thanks in advance.
>
>Mick.

Sounds like your mouse driver, or mouse hardware is not completely
compatible with MSD. I'm assuming your mouse is not a ms mouse, but a
compatible of some kind.

Borrow a mouse that does work with another computer with MSD and see
if it does OK with your hardware. If it works fine, (at that same
address and IRQ) then contact your mouse maker for an updated driver,
and/or try changing your com port/address/IRQ around a bit. See if it
makes a difference. You are sure you have nothing sharing that
interrupt or address, right? If you do, that will also cause your
problem, real quick. You'll need to get on your Sherlock Holmes cap
for that.

You might check first by just doing a clean boot (minimal drivers
only) and seeing if that makes a difference for MSD's lock-ups with
your mouse. Isolate every variable,. step by step. 

Using MSD from a DOS shell while running windows is another possible
problem. I trust you are not doing that, right?

Best wishes with your rodent problem.

Dave