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What is Knurlly????????

Nov 29, 2003 8:07PM PST

Hi Bob, Hope your Thanksgiving Day and weekend were enjoyable.
Knurlly meaning crusted on the outside. Forest for the trees type thing. Well to prove that point.
Back to this Hot 591P mobo. NOW it wont recognize ANY or NO mouse. I'm up to Win95 in OS installation, but can not get the mouse to work. I am using a Memorex mouse which came with its own software. I have tried four different mouses, Agiler, Kensiko, Keymouse &
Memorex. A mouse is a mouse, right?? Of course Of course. Small attempt at humor, and it didn't work either. This mobo has PS/2 connector pins which I am
not familiar with. Also com1 and com2 flat connector slots which I am using for my serial mouses with and adapter to convert from round to flat. What is this boards problem, other than me. There is Mouse.com and mouse.ini on my startup disc, but no indication of this
in my config.sys or autoexec.bat files. Is this the
problem?? Thanks for any help

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NT - Any 'Read.me' files on those mouse things to indicate use in configuration files?
Nov 29, 2003 8:41PM PST

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Re:What is Knurlly???????? Got it.
Nov 29, 2003 10:23PM PST

That "adapter to convert from round to flat" is what has caught my attention. While people do sell such adapters, it doesn't mean they work. The common PS/2-USB mouse will never work on a serial port with any known adapter. MOUSE.COM worked fine with PS/2 mice of many makes, but I never needed to run that except to test out if some mice were dead or alive.

So far it appears you have a puzzle of what's good and what works with what on your hands. Make sure that you haven't been supplied with some board that used those cables that connect the Serial ports to the motherboard since those apapter cables are not interchangeable.

It was a sad sight in which a friend had changed the motherboard, but didn't use the supplied serial port cables and lost a month working at serial port problems. I got lucky and looked in the motherboard box and saw the cables. "Did these come with the new board?" I ask. "Oh the old ones fit..."

Bob