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USB Mouse With PS/2 Adapter

Mar 11, 2010 7:38AM PST

I'm trying to get a USB mouse to work with a PS/2 to USB adapter, since my USB ports all fail to work, but it wont stay on. My PS/2 mouse is dead so I've bought a cheap PS/2 to USB adapter off of Amazon and plugged my USB mouse into it. Upon system boot, the mouse will turn on and then turn off after about two seconds. There's nothing I can do to turn it back on and it's being to get me annoyed.

I know the mouse works fine since I just tried it on a netbook and it worked upon plug in. Does anyone have advice to offer?

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Make and model?
Mar 11, 2010 8:23AM PST

Not all USB mice can use such adapters. The mouse has to have the circuits to support PS2 as the adapter you noted rarely has more than wires.
Bob

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Or maybe a ps2 mouse.
Mar 12, 2010 1:34AM PST

I think they go for under $5

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Another Problem
Mar 13, 2010 8:08AM PST

I just got one from Amazon to end this whole ordeal. Unfortunately, I've hit another problem.

The PS/2 mouse is now unresponsive when playing games. I was just in TF2 when the mouse wheel would act on it's own and then the entire mouse will not respond for thirty seconds after. Not to mention how it will randomly stop responding mid turn in other games.

It's a iMicro MO-5013P PS/2 mouse. I was thinking of a driver update, but the iMicro site provides none. Should I try the Basic Optical Mouse drivers from Microsoft?