[net.micro.pc] trouble with MS mouse

wyant@apollo.uucp (Geoffrey Wyant) (09/08/86)

I have a microsoft mouse (bus version) located in slot 5 with 
the jumper set to irq2.  It works fine with all graphics
software I use (PC paint, Smalltalk/V, etc) except MS windows.
When I try to run windows, it "greys' the screen, rumbles for
a few minutes and the pops up an alerter "error reading drive c:"
(or drive a: if I've built it to run on a floppy.  Has anyone
seen this type of behavior before ?   If I build MS windows to
run without the mouse, it all works fine. 

                       Thanks,

                          Geoff
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Geoff Wyant   UUCP:  ...{yale,uw-beaver,decvax!wanginst}!apollo!wyant

tim@j.cc.purdue.edu (Timothy Lange) (09/11/86)

To: decvax!wanginst!apollo!wyant	(We use domain names here, mail
gives fits when I try to reply to an address similar to above.)

This may interest others that just purchased MS Mouse and have Windows.

I had the same trouble too, found out that with the newer mice (boards
marked with Rev. G), you have to copy the file MOUSE.DRV from the mouse
disks to one of the Windows disks.  This replaces an older copy of the
driver for Windows.  There is a loose page in your Mouse book describing
this change.  I had to call MicroSoft to find out about the loose page
IN THE BACK of my manual.  After I copied the new driver and reinstalled
Windows, all was well.

Tim Lange
Purdue University Computing Center
West Lafayette, IN