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A friend ask me to take a look at his computer because his PS2 mouse
stopped working. We tried a new PS2 mouse. No change.
I figured that the mouse drivers had somehow gotten corrupted, so I
went in to delete the mouse drivers, but there were no drivers
showing. The mouse was not showing as an active hardware device. There
have been no error messages.
I went out and bought a USB mouse, let the computer find the new
hardware (it did), and the USB mouse works fine, but when I put a PS2
adapter on that same mouse it will not work.
As near as I can tell he did not install any new hardware, and the
only updates he might have done are AV and/or XP update related.
He can get his machine to work with the USB mouse so this is not a
critical issue, but from an acedemic standpoint I'm wondering what
happened?
Any ideas?
TIA.
stopped working. We tried a new PS2 mouse. No change.
I figured that the mouse drivers had somehow gotten corrupted, so I
went in to delete the mouse drivers, but there were no drivers
showing. The mouse was not showing as an active hardware device. There
have been no error messages.
I went out and bought a USB mouse, let the computer find the new
hardware (it did), and the USB mouse works fine, but when I put a PS2
adapter on that same mouse it will not work.
As near as I can tell he did not install any new hardware, and the
only updates he might have done are AV and/or XP update related.
He can get his machine to work with the USB mouse so this is not a
critical issue, but from an acedemic standpoint I'm wondering what
happened?
Any ideas?
TIA.