PS/2 mouse won't work with A8N-SLI deluxe w/ Ghost or Partition Magic
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From: crystaldaggerNOSPAM on 4 Jan 2008 14:08 In Norton Ghost v8.3 through v11.00, or Partition Magic Pro 8.05 (CD versions booted into PC DOS), my PS/2 mouse will never work. The cursor is there, but locked. In pure DOS, with something like Edit.com and a mouse driver installed - no problem. But from within Ghost or Partition Magic running on PC DOS, nada. I have to use the keyboard, and while workable, it's less convenient than the mouse. What could possibly be causing this? I have motherboard BIOS 1805, the latest. It's a relatively minor issue but annoying. joe
From: Mike Tomlinson on 7 Jan 2008 04:22 In article <3k0tn39cho5tfmqbts66f5fljvms9vn95j(a)4ax.com>, crystaldaggerNO SPAM(a)hotmial.com writes >In Norton Ghost v8.3 through v11.00, or Partition Magic Pro 8.05 (CD >versions booted into PC DOS), my PS/2 mouse will never work. The >cursor is there, but locked. press f5 when "Starting PC DOS..." appears and you will get an A:\> prompt. Run mouse.com - what's the output? Is the mouse found? Try another mouse. -- (\__/) Bunny says NO to Windows Vista! (='.'=) http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html (")_(")
From: crystaldaggerNOSPAM on 8 Jan 2008 17:30 On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 09:22:57 +0000, Mike Tomlinson <mike(a)jasper.org.uk> wrote: >In article <3k0tn39cho5tfmqbts66f5fljvms9vn95j(a)4ax.com>, crystaldaggerNO >SPAM(a)hotmial.com writes > >>In Norton Ghost v8.3 through v11.00, or Partition Magic Pro 8.05 (CD >>versions booted into PC DOS), my PS/2 mouse will never work. The >>cursor is there, but locked. > >press f5 when "Starting PC DOS..." appears and you will get an A:\> >prompt. Run mouse.com - what's the output? Is the mouse found? > >Try another mouse. I tried 2 different PS/2 mice. No joy. I can load a standard mouse driver fine, have it detect the mouse and it'll be working effectively, but it's when the Norton Ghost interface under PC-DOS first appears that the mouse will freeze. It works for about 2 seconds before locking up, however. Same with Partition Magic. I'm thinking it's a quirk with my IDE configuration (still using 3 IDE HDDs & one optical drive on the A8N-SLI IDE controllers, no SATA) and one the disks are accessed & checked through these PC DOS Disk cloning or partitioning programs, it causes a lock up. joe
From: John Lewis on 8 Jan 2008 19:22 On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 22:30:25 GMT, crystaldaggerNOSPAM(a)hotmial.com wrote: >On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 09:22:57 +0000, Mike Tomlinson <mike(a)jasper.org.uk> >wrote: > >>In article <3k0tn39cho5tfmqbts66f5fljvms9vn95j(a)4ax.com>, crystaldaggerNO >>SPAM(a)hotmial.com writes >> >>>In Norton Ghost v8.3 through v11.00, or Partition Magic Pro 8.05 (CD >>>versions booted into PC DOS), my PS/2 mouse will never work. The >>>cursor is there, but locked. >> >>press f5 when "Starting PC DOS..." appears and you will get an A:\> >>prompt. Run mouse.com - what's the output? Is the mouse found? >> >>Try another mouse. > >I tried 2 different PS/2 mice. No joy. I can load a standard mouse >driver fine, have it detect the mouse and it'll be working >effectively, but it's when the Norton Ghost interface under PC-DOS >first appears that the mouse will freeze. It works for about 2 >seconds before locking up, however. Same with Partition Magic. I'm >thinking it's a quirk with my IDE configuration (still using 3 IDE >HDDs & one optical drive on the A8N-SLI IDE controllers, no SATA) and >one the disks are accessed & checked through these PC DOS Disk cloning >or partitioning programs, it causes a lock up. > > >joe Try disconnecting all hard-drives except your boot one and see if the mouse problem still shows up. Also use the OS disk-check program to verify that your boot partition (C:) has no errors. John Lewis
From: crystaldaggerNOSPAM on 9 Jan 2008 16:55
On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:22:39 GMT, john.dsl(a)verizon.net (John Lewis) wrote: >>I tried 2 different PS/2 mice. No joy. I can load a standard mouse >>driver fine, have it detect the mouse and it'll be working >>effectively, but it's when the Norton Ghost interface under PC-DOS >>first appears that the mouse will freeze. It works for about 2 >>seconds before locking up, however. Same with Partition Magic. I'm >>thinking it's a quirk with my IDE configuration (still using 3 IDE >>HDDs & one optical drive on the A8N-SLI IDE controllers, no SATA) and >>one the disks are accessed & checked through these PC DOS Disk cloning >>or partitioning programs, it causes a lock up. >> >> >>joe > > >Try disconnecting all hard-drives except your boot one and see if the >mouse problem still shows up. Also use the OS disk-check program to >verify that your boot partition (C:) has no errors. > >John Lewis I did this. No dice. Even disconnected by IDE boot drive and all USB devices and STILL my PS/2 mouse will freeze just after the Norton Ghost splash screen appears in PC DOS. I'm thinking there's some conflict in BIOS now, some IRQ out of order. I tried an old serial port TouchPad (which I hate) plugged into Com1 which works fine with Ghost with a standard mouse driver. I'm tired of chasing my tail over this. It's not a crucial issue, but is damn irksome that my PS/2 mouse will NOT work with Norton Ghost or Partition Magic under PC DOS. We all want our systems to run perfect but I think I've been obsessive enough about this. Maybe it's just a bad PS/2 port? Thanks for the all the help here. Over & out. joe |