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(You've heard it before) My Mouse is Insane

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From: Gary Brainin
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:48
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   I'm sure this is a horrible FAQ, but I have been waiting around a
couple of weeks now, and haven't seen an answer.  So I'm going to
burden the net by asking it yet again.

   My mouse (Z-NIX serial; supposed to be MS-mouse compatible) simply
refuses to behave rationally under Win3.1.  Under 3.0 it was fine, but
when I upgraded, it started doing the jumping back and forth thing.
I'll move the mouse slowly in one direction, and the cursor will go
that way, stop, go backwards, etc.  Fine mouse control is simply
impossible.

   Oddly, this problem is significantly more serious in the horizontal
direction; vertical is almost normal.

   I have done everything I could think of: cleaned the mouse;
shuffled around (and even deleted altogether) MOUSE.COM and MOUSE.SYS;
changed the mouse tracking speed; changed every parameter on the mouse
port (COM1, which it shares with nothing; there is a modem on COM2 and
no other serial device); switched to every (serial) mouse driver that
came with Win3.1; and I even tried separating the mouse wire from the
other wires, in case I was getting interference.

   I tried replacing MOUSE.DRV with the Win3.0 version, but got a
startup error when I tried to get into windows.  So, is there a known
solution to this problem?  An updated driver?  ANYthing?

   Thanks in advance,

			-Gary
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