Please help.....my mouse is stuck.......

[hobithairshop]

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]

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

[hobithairshop]

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

[furlong47]

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

[hobithairshop]

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]

Originally posted by Hobit ®:
<STRONG>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"></STRONG>

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..

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[Sly]

If the above does not work or you can't access you CD-rom go here to get a bootdisk for Win95, and use that to boot. Than install

[Wildman6971]

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]

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]

Go here, 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]

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]

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

[Sly]

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

[Sebring]

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]

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