Please help.....my mouse is stuck....... [Archive] - WinDrivers Computer Tech Support Forums

hobithairshop

July 11th, 2001, 12:06 PM

When I start my system, Windows95 says it cannot detect a mouse attached to my system. I have tried 2 seperate mice with no results. When I look in device manager it says that the mouse is not attached or does no have all the drivers installed. When I update the drivers and reboot win95 says it cannot detect the mouse. I have tried everything....can anyone help me?

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jbar1

July 11th, 2001, 12:25 PM

PS2 or Serial? When you open the Mouse Icon in control panel, what does it show for a driver?

hobithairshop

July 11th, 2001, 12:31 PM

It says ps/2 and when i open the mouse icon it says ps/2 port mouse.

furlong47

July 11th, 2001, 02:19 PM

It's possible the ps/2 port on the motherboard is damaged; have you tried a serial or USB mouse??

hobithairshop

July 11th, 2001, 05:19 PM

Well now I killed it any way lol, thought I could delete windows and reinstall and that maybe that would help. Now all I get is a error that says win files are missing I know there is a way from dos to delete all of windows...can anyone help?? I dont have disks to re-install dos but I do have win 95 cd. <IMG SRC="smilies/confused.gif" border="0">

Sly

July 11th, 2001, 05:50 PM

Originally posted by Hobit ®:
Well now I killed it any way lol, thought I could delete windows and reinstall and that maybe that would help. Now all I get is a error that says win files are missing I know there is a way from dos to delete all of windows...can anyone help?? I dont have disks to re-install dos but I do have win 95 cd. <IMG SRC="smilies/confused.gif" border="0">

If you can still access you cd-rom

Put the Win95 cd in it Type "D:" or what ever your cd-rom is Than "cd Win95" Than "Setup"

That should start an install for windows95, make sure not to use the same windows dir, use one with something like Win95B or something to that affect..

Hope this helps... <IMG SRC="smilies/cool.gif" border="0"> <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0"> <IMG SRC="smilies/cool.gif" border="0">

Sly

July 11th, 2001, 06:00 PM

If the above does not work or you can't access you CD-rom go here (http://www.sanx.org/disk9x.html) to get a bootdisk for Win95, and use that to boot. Than install

Wildman6971

July 11th, 2001, 06:00 PM

www.bootdisk.com (http://www.bootdisk.com)

You can get a boot disk here and the reformat and reinstall your windows.

Make sure that you have a windows product key.

hobithairshop

July 11th, 2001, 07:03 PM

Ok, I downloaded dos 5.0 and I expanded it to a floppy then I formatted my hard drive and now I can't find a disk thatt the computer can use to boot from. It does not recognize the dos 5.0 is there something I am missing to get the pc to boot from a floppy? I dont think there is any o/s on the pc right now so it dosen't recognize anything.....lol......grrrrrrr.... <IMG SRC="smilies/frown.gif" border="0">

Sly

July 11th, 2001, 07:41 PM

Go here (http://www.sanx.org/disk9x.html), and download HTTP - Microsoft Windows 95a, put a floppy in the a drive then double click on the file you downloaded, click on ok or start. Try it in computer you are on, if it works use it to boot computer you need to boot, let me know how it went.

hobithairshop

July 11th, 2001, 09:00 PM

Ok, I downloaded the win95a to my desktop, expanded it to my floppy and this machine booted to the floppy, but when I tried it in the other machine I get an error message :

DISKETTE BOOT FAILURE
insert BOOT diskette in A:
Press any key when ready _

That is the same message I get with any of the diskettes I have tried.

By the way.....Thanks for your time, patience and info....
Hobit <IMG SRC="smilies/rolleyes.gif" border="0">

hobithairshop

July 11th, 2001, 09:06 PM

is IBM dos4.0 something that I might be able to use???

Sly

July 11th, 2001, 09:28 PM

Check the bios of the machin make sure it sees the hard drive and the floppy, than try it..

Sebring

July 11th, 2001, 09:54 PM

You don't need to install dos if you're going to use Win95. You do however need a CD-rom setup boot disk. If you can't download one then check with a local computer store to see if you can acquire one there. Remember that it needs to have an Atapi CD driver loaded to the disk before you use it. Maybe they can help you with that as well as you need to edit a couple of files to use the driver. Make sure your system bios has the primary boot device set to floppy. Place the boot disk in the floppy drive and the Win95 CD in the CD-Rom and the first time you boot up hit F3 twice to exit the Windows instalation screen as it will start automatically. Change to the a: prompt, type fdisk and delete the Primary partition. Don't worry about creating another partition as the Win95 CD will do this for you. It will also format the drive again before installing. If you accept the defaults during installation then it should be relatively easy. In the future however, I would make sure I exhausted all options before I resorted to reinstalling Win95. You might have saved a lot of trouble by picking up a $10.00 serial mouse and plugging it into com1. Windows would have detected it automatically. Hope this helps.

hobithairshop

July 11th, 2001, 09:59 PM

lol, figures that I did it the hard way.......as usual.....I am embarrased too lol, thanks for your help...will let you know what happens

Sebring

July 11th, 2001, 10:04 PM

nothing to be embarassed about, reminds of the days when I started out! in fact, this senario sounds all too familiar. hmmm LOL

hobithairshop

July 11th, 2001, 11:46 PM

Drats....nothing helps, got the win95b boot disk downloaded and made..put win95b in the cd-rom and booted the system....still get an error message :
DISKETTE BOOT FAILURE
Insert BOOT diskette in A:
Press any key when ready_ <IMG SRC="smilies/confused.gif" border="0">

Sly

July 12th, 2001, 12:19 AM

Well now that kinda puts me at a loss, give me more info on the computer, make, model, sound card, cd-rom, and any thing else that might help to ID the problem, FCC ID # help,

hobithairshop

July 12th, 2001, 12:35 AM

This is the info given when I boot up the pc.

AMIBIOS SYSTEM CONFIGURATION
MAIN PROCESSOR : CX486S2
NUMERIC PROCESSOR : PRESENT
FLOPPY DRIVE A : PRESENT
BASE MEMORY SIZE : 640 KB
EXT MEMORY SIZE : 15360 KB
HARD DISK TYPE : 47

256 KB CACHE MEMORY
66MHz DX2 CPU
128 K SHADOW RAM
CD-ROM 24 MAX US DRIVE

As far as sound cards and other internal components and cards I don't know for sure.
Lots of help I am lol.
This sux cuz I have formatted this pc a million times and now either I can't remember what I am doing or else the software I need was corrupted by a virus that I got from a used hard drive <IMG SRC="smilies/frown.gif" border="0"> .
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hobithairshop

July 12th, 2001, 12:38 AM

It is a Generic tower and ther are no numbers or anything on it. The only model # I can see is on the power supply box. <IMG SRC="smilies/confused.gif" border="0">

Sly

July 12th, 2001, 03:49 AM

Originally posted by Hobit ®:
This is the info given when I boot up the pc.

AMIBIOS SYSTEM CONFIGURATION
MAIN PROCESSOR : CX486S2
NUMERIC PROCESSOR : PRESENT
FLOPPY DRIVE A : PRESENT
BASE MEMORY SIZE : 640 KB
EXT MEMORY SIZE : 15360 KB
HARD DISK TYPE : 47

256 KB CACHE MEMORY
66MHz DX2 CPU
128 K SHADOW RAM
CD-ROM 24 MAX US DRIVE

Well from what I see from this is the chip is a Cyrix, with 16meg of memory, the mem is most likley 30 pin simm's.. Is the CD-Rom on a card or on the main board connected to the hard drive as a slave.

Sorry for the long post but here goes:

this is what the config.sys looks like:

DEVICE=HIMEM.SYS /testmem :off
FILES=30
BUFFERS=20

DEVICE=cd1.SYS /D:banana

rem DEVICE=cd1.SYS /D:banana /P:1f0,14
rem DEVICE=cd1.SYS /D:banana /P:170,15
rem DEVICE=cd1.SYS /D:banana /P:170,10
rem DEVICE=cd1.SYS /D:banana /P:1e8,12
rem DEVICE=cd1.SYS /D:banana /P:1e8,11
rem DEVICE=cd1.SYS /D:banana /P:168,10
rem DEVICE=cd1.SYS /D:banana /P:168,9

LASTDRIVE=Z

You will need to change some of this to make it work for your machine. remove the "rem" from in front of the line either one at a time or all at once. than try once more. If that dose not work try replacing "device=cd1.sys" with "device=cd2.sys" and so on up to "cd4.sys".

The autoexec.bat should be ok. You can use edit.com on the disk to make any changes to the config.sys that you need to make. the disk has a lot of util. that can be used to fdisk, format, scandisk among others that will be of help to you for this task.. hope it works..

Sly

hobithairshop

July 12th, 2001, 01:35 PM

Thanks for the info and I really appreciate all the help you have given me......but I cannot access the c or a drives of this machine.....however I do have a question...I have Gateway and I know that it is like a one piece thing inside (motherboard, modem,etc), all one piece and I'm not sure about the cable ribbon but if there is more than one plug on the ribbon is there a way I can install the other hard drive into my working machine and then copy data to the non working hard drive to make it operational? Sounds dumb maybe but just a thought....lol <IMG SRC="smilies/rolleyes.gif" border="0">

Poseidon

July 12th, 2001, 02:08 PM

. . . Sorry for the post Tried to delete it but was unable - had to settle for edit.

Sly

July 12th, 2001, 03:01 PM

Sebring

July 12th, 2001, 10:35 PM

Originally posted by Hobit ®:
Thanks for the info and I really appreciate all the help you have given me......but I cannot access the c or a drives of this machine.....however I do have a question...I have Gateway and I know that it is like a one piece thing inside (motherboard, modem,etc), all one piece and I'm not sure about the cable ribbon but if there is more than one plug on the ribbon is there a way I can install the other hard drive into my working machine and then copy data to the non working hard drive to make it operational? Sounds dumb maybe but just a thought....lol <IMG SRC="smilies/rolleyes.gif" border="0">

Actually Hobit this is not a bad idea at all. You can put your hard-drive into the working machine to install win95 on it but here is what you'll want to do. Pull the hard-drive out of your working machine and set it aside to avoid any chance of accidental software corruption. Install the hard-drive out of your non-working pc into the good one in the same spot on the ribbon cable as the original one was. Since the jumper on the hard drive should already be set to master then the only change you will need to make is in the bios. You'll have to change the bios on your good machine so that it recognizes the right hard drive. If the bios is not too old then it should have an option to automatically detect the drive. Once this is done then you should be able to install Win95 on the drive as I mentioned in the earlier post, however, that is all I would do to it in this machine. Once Win95 itself is loaded, put it back in the old machine to see if it works. It may begin to install software for com ports, pci cards, etc. again (this is normal) so have the Win95 cd in the cd-rom drive when it begins to boot. Let me know what happens.

rebelj

July 12th, 2001, 11:55 PM

This may sound weird, but I have ran across this problem on some of my servers.

Get A can of "canned air" (for cleaning electronic equipment) and, with the power off, blow out the insides of your floppy drive (from the front). Sometimes, based on your case design, the airflow through the floppy drive will deposit dust on the heads and cause disk read errors. Some of my systems only see a floppy every six months, and on two of them I have to do this every time or else they won't read the disk.

Good Luck! <IMG SRC="smilies/smile.gif" border="0">

hobithairshop

July 13th, 2001, 02:51 AM

Ok here's what happened....I took out my hard drive and installed the old hard drive, with the win95b boot disk in A: and the win 95b cd in the cd-rom drive....puter said booting to win95 then I could not access the C: drive at all. Well now I have both hard drives set up in my machine and in device manager it says I have 2 hard drives installed but in My Comouter it only finds oneof them....What i need to know now I think is how to specify a drive letter to my old hard drive since C: is my new one and D: is my CD-Rom I found in device manager a screen that shows the drive specification but it is dimmed and I don't remember how to specify the end drive letter.

Sly

July 13th, 2001, 06:45 AM

Has the old hard drive been formated yet?
If not format it with out your new drive presnt..

hobithairshop

July 14th, 2001, 10:33 AM

Ok..I am really confused now...I did format the hard drive while it was in the other computer but I used the format option in setup...you know like press f1 at boot up...then there was an option to format the hard drive and that is the option I used. Now nothing recognizes the drive....well my new pc does in device manager but I can't access it at all.

Sowulo

July 14th, 2001, 01:43 PM

That option to format the drive from your system setup is a low-level format utility. The drive still isn't usable because it still needs to be partitioned with Fdisk and then formatted with the format command provided by your Operating System.

Sly

July 14th, 2001, 04:50 PM

Originally posted by Sowulo:
That option to format the drive from your system setup is a low-level format utility. The drive still isn't usable because it still needs to be partitioned with Fdisk and then formatted with the format command provided by your Operating System.

As Sowulo says above fdisk is step 1, format X: /S is step 2, installing the O/S (Windows) is step 3, using the boot disk for steps 1 and 2, windows cd for step 3....

Sly

July 14th, 2001, 05:49 PM

[list=1]Clean Install None Booting CD-Rom Backup all important data and make sure you have a Windows boot disk and code key. Boot computer with boot disk, At the A: promt type "fdisk", answers yes to all. Reboot after completion (power off).... After Rebooting select boot with CD-Rom support. Type "format C: /S" to format and make your hard drive bootable. Name the drive if you want to.. Type "MD C:\Win98. Makes a dir. on the C Drive Insert your Windows CD and type "X:" (where X is your cd-rom drive) Type cd win9x (this will put you in the win9x dir.) Now type copy "*.* C:\win9x" (this copies all Files from the cd win9x dir. to the hard drive win9x dir.) After all files are copy to H/D shut down and restart from hard drive.. Type "cd win9x" once there type "setup" .. Follow the on screen instructions...[/list=a]

Where as "Win9X = Win95 or Win98 Some adjustments may need to be done for your machine.....

hobithairshop

July 15th, 2001, 11:50 PM

I s there any way that I can print this page to use for reference?? I tried to e-mail it to my self but just got a link back to this page...When I tried to print this page I got very strange characters on the pages. If I put the other hard drive in my new machine now it says there is no hard drive detected. So I put the hard drive back in the old computer and the computer does detect the hard drive and it says boot from C: or from A: then press the enter key to reboot but the computer freezes there. Lol aren't you guys tired of trying to help me by now...LOL
Do you think one of you could just drop by and fix this thing for me???? lol lol lol...j/k...but really thanks for all the help and info.

Sly

July 16th, 2001, 12:17 AM

Droped the post to your e-mail let me know if you get it... <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0">

hobithairshop

July 16th, 2001, 12:24 AM

Thanks Sly, I got it...will be offline for a while so I can install the HD into this machine and try this out...Thanks and talk to ya later.

hobithairshop

July 16th, 2001, 02:27 AM

Ok i'm back. I tried what you told me to do...I did the fdisk and answered all the questions yes, then I rebooted the system and when I tried step 2 it said incorrect dos ver?????? I typed ver at the command prompt and it said ver 6.22. Most of the time my new puter says there is no hard drive installed. I have a western digital hard drive intall program and it says the hard drive is there and gives me the part number and drive size and everything but if I try to use the program I get the error message : Problem 0300, the hard drive is not responding. Check the connections and the jumper settings", the connections are fine and the jumper is set on master just like the new hard drive is. Oh heck I hate computers lol.

Sly

July 16th, 2001, 02:34 AM

STOP

ok what boot disk did you use?

and can you get on any chat room?

hobithairshop

July 16th, 2001, 02:37 AM

the disk says boot95...cant find chat rooms i can get into but have msn messenger if u have that

Sly

July 16th, 2001, 02:40 AM

Originally posted by Hobit ®:
the disk says boot95...cant find chat rooms i can get into but have msn messenger if u have that

what is you msn address

hobithairshop

August 10th, 2001, 01:19 AM

Finally there is light at the end of the tunnel for me. My puter is up and running and I just wanted to say thanks to everyone who posted here to help me out. This site is most awesome and so are the people here. I have been everywhere on the net and no place else gives help and responses like this site. Three Cheers to Windrivers and its members.
Special thanks to Sowulo and to Sly for all the infor and effort and help. I will recommend all my friends to this site.
Thanks again to everyone.
Hobit :D