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3 total messages Started by Charles Cummins Fri, 10 Apr 1992 17:35

#76

Author: Charles Cummins
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 17:35

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   I hope that this is the appropriate group to ask.

   I have a Packard Bell 386SX with a MS compatible mouse.  I keep 
HIMEM, CMDEDIT, and NO MOUSE DRIVER in memory. (I load it later if 
I need it).  Also I use MS-DOS 4.01 and MS Win. 3.0.

The problem:

   type win /r - windows comes up in real mode - works fine

   type win /s - windows comes up in standard mode - works fine

   type win    - windows comes up in enhanced mode and works fine sometimes...

but most of the time my mouse doen't work. ie Hourglass goes flying all 
over the place and windows open and close when I move the mouse around.
ANybody else have this problem.

Is it possible that HIMEM or CMDEDIT is hammering my mouse driver
( intermittently )?

PS Mouse driver version 7.04. (but I don't think it makes any difference
to windows whether I load this or not.)

Note everything in windows works fine using the keyboard even when
the mouse is screwed up...

reply to cacummin@descartes with suggestions.

Re: Mouse

#79

Author: G. Steve Arnold
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 23:42

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cacummin@leibniz.waterloo.edu (Charles Cummins) writes:
> but most of the time my mouse doen't work. ie Hourglass goes flying all 
> over the place and windows open and close when I move the mouse around.
> ANybody else have this problem.

	I had this problem last spring when I bought my PC. Basically the
problem was that the mouse was screwed up (physically) and required 
replacement. I think that's the problem, especially if this behavior
is recent. Borrow a pal's mouse and see if that corrects the problem.


good luck
steve

-- 
   The only difference between a Communist        G. Steve Arnold
   and a Socialist is that the Socialist will     Dept. Math and Stats.
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Re: Mouse

#90

Author: Brian Holland
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 15:24

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In article <9831@bgsuvax.bgsu.edu> sarnold@bgsu.edu (G. Steve Arnold) writes:
>cacummin@leibniz.waterloo.edu (Charles Cummins) writes:
>> but most of the time my mouse doen't work. ie Hourglass goes flying all 
>> over the place and windows open and close when I move the mouse around.
>> ANybody else have this problem.
>
>	I had this problem last spring when I bought my PC. Basically the
>problem was that the mouse was screwed up (physically) and required 
>replacement. I think that's the problem, especially if this behavior
>is recent. Borrow a pal's mouse and see if that corrects the problem.
>
>
I've had this problem too.  Generally it happens when I move out of a 
full screen DOS app.  The easiest way to rectify the problem is to 
open a dos window [from the Program Manager select File <Alt-F>, Run,
and then run COMMAND.COM].  Once you've opened the DOS windows run
your mouse drive [usually MOUSE.COM].  This always seems to do the trick.
It also has worked when my mouse pointer disappears [a new problem 
I've encountered with 3.1].  Hope that helps.

Brian

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