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Has anyone tried using the Microsoft InPort Mouse with an AT running MSDOS 4.01?

I'm trying to do so and the machine does not seem to like it.  The machine
is a PC BRAND 286/20 running MSDOS 4.01.  The mouse's card is plugged into
one of the two eight-bit slots on the backplane, with the I/O board occupying
the other.  There was no documentation supplied with the mouse except the
warranty notice.  The mouse did come with a single driver disk.

The system would only lock up whenever I executed the MOUSE.COM until I
examined the card closely and moved a jumper from the "Normal" position
to an "XT Slot 8" position, figuring that I had the card in an 8-bit slot.

The mouse then worked fine and I ran the DOS 4.01 Shell, Ventura, Harvard
Business Graphics and Splash.  I then incorporated the MOUSE.SYS driver
into the CONFIG.SYS file.  The machine locked up when it reached the mouse
driver portion when I rebooted.  So I then took the driver out of CONFIG
and put the MOUSE.COM version into the AUTOEXEC file.  The system again
locked up on rebooting when it reached the mouse driver portion.

Then I took the driver out of the AUTOEXEC file and booted the machine with
no mouse driver at all.  It worked fine under keyboard control.  When I
executed the MOUSE.COM driver manually, the system locked up.


What's the problem?  I know that some applications may need separate attention,
but as I say the entire machine has trouble even booting, so I'd like to
get DOS to agree with it, at least, and then address any minor problems that
individual apps may have.

One thing I thought of was that the mouse driver version may not be current
enough.  It is Microsoft's mouse driver version 6.01 and has a copyright
date of 1983-87, and I don't think MSDOS version 4 was out at that time.

THANKS!

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