ries@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM (Marc Ries) (01/12/90)
I have been having problems with a new Packard Bell Legend V 80286 clone
and a (new) MicroSoft mouse [the PS/2 model, which plugs into a PS/2 DIN
mouse port on the back of the PB).
The problem is that 9 times out of 10, when you boot the machine COLD
(after a night off), the MS Mouse drive does not recognize that the
mouse is plugged in (to the PS/2 DIN port).
The only sure way to get the mouse recognized is to pull it out of the
DIN, re-insert it, and reboot the machine.
After writing a letter to PB and two weeks of phone-tag, they are now
telling me that the MS mouse does not work with this model and that the
only mouse to run is the Logitech PS/2 mouse with mouse driver V4.01.
This tech support person even said the MS mouse could "fry your
motherboard".
I basically told him I thought they were "off base", especially since the
Microsoft mouse was the industry standard mouse, that I was aware of several
programs that wouldn't work with the logitech combo, and that this was
a DIN mouse not a BUS mouse. I asked for the manager and am waiting for
a "Senior" tech to call me back (ya...) to explain why MS is full of do-do.
[The goat of the whole story is that the only reason I bought the MS PS/2
mouse was because no-one has the Logitech PS/2 mouse locally available?!]
Any way, anybody have any opinions or suggestions or what to trade 8-) ?
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Marc Ries
ries@venice.sedd.trw.com (ARPA)
somewhere!trwind!venice!ries (UUCP)
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