PC Card: Missing Mouse Pointer
Chris Dale
I have recently re-installed PC Pro (V3.06) on my RPC with RO4.39,
because the mouse pointer had disappeared and I couldn't find any
other way to get it back.
After overcoming some problems with the floppy drive, I got everything
working OK including Windows95 and the mouse pointer. However after
copying some 'MS Office' software files onto drive_C (500MB partition)
using RISC OS with PC Pro not running, I restarted PC Pro and
Windows95, but the mouse pointer had disappeared. (I hadn't managed to
get 'MSOffice running yet).
(The mouse pointer disappeared originally when I was downloading and
installing some new software using the PC card and Win95).
If I use the keyboard to navigate to Device Manager in Win95, it shows
the expected bus mouse, but the mouse icon has a yellow '!' over it.
Looking at 'Standard Bus Adapter Mouse properties, lists 'Input/Output
Range 023C-023F' and 'Interrupt Request 03'. 'Use automatic settings'
is ticked. Deleting the mouse and restarting to let it re-install
appeared to install it as before, but didn't fix it. Windows appears
to use mouse driver C:\windows\system\msmouse.vxd and \mouse.drv ,
which are there.
I'd be grateful for any ideas on how to fix it.
Thanks,
--
Chris Dale.
Andrew Wickham
Chris Dale <ch...@acdale.plus.com> wrote:
>
>If I use the keyboard to navigate to Device Manager in Win95, it shows
>the expected bus mouse, but the mouse icon has a yellow '!' over it.
>Looking at 'Standard Bus Adapter Mouse properties, lists 'Input/Output
>Range 023C-023F' and 'Interrupt Request 03'. 'Use automatic settings'
>is ticked. Deleting the mouse and restarting to let it re-install
>appeared to install it as before, but didn't fix it. Windows appears
>to use mouse driver C:\windows\system\msmouse.vxd and \mouse.drv ,
>which are there.
>
Anything else trying to use IRQ3? There are some situations in which
you need to switch the mouse to 5 - see !PCConfig and the manual.
HTH,
Andrew
(PCcard-less at present as the Kinetic doesn't see to co-exist happily)
Chris Dale
Andrew Wickham <ajw...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> In message <adb6bb13...@acdale.plus.com>
> Chris Dale <ch...@acdale.plus.com> wrote:
>>
>>If I use the keyboard to navigate to Device Manager in Win95, it shows
>>the expected bus mouse, but the mouse icon has a yellow '!' over it.
>>Looking at 'Standard Bus Adapter Mouse properties, lists 'Input/Output
>>Range 023C-023F' and 'Interrupt Request 03'. 'Use automatic settings'
>>is ticked. Deleting the mouse and restarting to let it re-install
>>appeared to install it as before, but didn't fix it. Windows appears
>>to use mouse driver C:\windows\system\msmouse.vxd and \mouse.drv ,
>>which are there.
>>
> Anything else trying to use IRQ3? There are some situations in which
> you need to switch the mouse to 5 - see !PCConfig and the manual.
thanks Andrew. Nothing else using IRQ3 that I can find. Device Manager
Mouse properties reports 'no conflict'. I just tried using !PCConfig
to swap IRQs 3 & 5 over (IRQ5 was allocated to network card), but it
doesn't fix it and Device Manager still showing Interrupt 03 for the
mouse.
--
Chris