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I seem to have this very strange problem with my Microsoft Mouse.

Here is the story:  I have a system with a Microsoft Mouse.  My mouse never
gave me any trouble before (for about a full year).  Now, I decide I want to
upgrade my system.  So I bought a MIDI card and installed it, and I bought a
3 1/2 inch disk drive and installed it.  And lo and behold, my mouse 
mysteriously stops working.  

So the first thing I thought of was an interrupt
conflict, but it still didn't work after I had removed everything I just 
installed, and I even took out my sound card whice was in there when the mouse
still worked.  And still, not a stir from my mouse.  

So now I think to myself, maybe it's a software problem.  But when I boot up
with just DOS (4.01) it still doesn't work.  So now, I think that the mouse 
itself broke. (by the way, it's a serial mouse)  But it works when I plug
it into another PC's serial port.  So now, I think that I have a bad serial
port.  But my modem works through both COM1 and COM2.

Well, I just about ran out of ideas, so I called Microsoft.  They told me that
I had a bad driver and the version I had (6.24) was known for dying (all of 
a sudden).  They are in the process of sending me an upgrade.  But I tried a
friend's driver (version 7.04) and this time it couldn't even find my mouse
at all.

Has anyone ever had such a problem before, with thier mouse or mouse driver?
Does ANYONE have ANY ideas at all???  Anything at all.  I really don't know
what to try next.  I'm pretty much ready to give up and go buy a BUS mouse.

Any suggestions are welcome.  Please leave a response or send E-mail.

                         Thank you very much

                                 Rich

                            (rlk20269@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu)
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