Lost mouse

"Reggie D." <ReggieD RemoveThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> "philo" wrote:
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> > "Reggie D." <ReggieD RemoveThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> > > "Jeff Richards" wrote:
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> > >> A new Epson allinone is going to be difficult to use with W98.
> > >>
> > >> Did your attempts at installing it involve making any changes to BIOS
> > >> setup?
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> > Mr. Richards had asked you if the bios settings had changed...
> > if so you may have lost your com port
> > which you'd have to re-enable in the bios.
> > Usually setting it to "auto" will do the trick
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> > >> Jeff Richards
> > >> MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
> > >> "Reggie D." <ReggieD RemoveThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> > >> > "Mart" wrote:
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> > >> >> Reggie wrote :-
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> > >> >> > I'm on W98SE and the problem occured when trying to install a
USB
> > >> >> > printer.
> > >> >>
> > >>
> > >> Didn't touch the bios.
> > > I think the allinone is incompatible as u say. but I'm stuck with no
mouse
> > > still and only the keyboard to work with. This pc has no internet
> > > commenction.
> > > I can now get to stage where I'm asked for the W98SE cd but the driver
> > > cannot be found?
> > >
> > > Reggie D.
> > >>
> >
> >
> > Re. Mr Richards
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> Bios was set at 'auto' but all ports shown as disabled.
> I changed to manual and all ports were then enabled.
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> Rebooted and mouse worked!!
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> My grateful thx to you all you pro's..
>
> Reggie D.


Glad you got it working...
if it happens again, you'll know what to do

Thanks for letting us know you got it back. I wonder if the Epson
installation changed the BIOS settings for you.
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"Reggie D." <ReggieD.RemoveThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Bios was set at 'auto' but all ports shown as disabled.
> I changed to manual and all ports were then enabled.
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> Rebooted and mouse worked!!
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> My grateful thx to you all you pro's..
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> Reggie D.

....or if you have both plug 'n' play BIOS and Windows plug 'n' play
enabled...

"Jeff Richards" <JRichards.RemoveThis@msn.com.au> wrote in message
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> Thanks for letting us know you got it back. I wonder if the Epson
> installation changed the BIOS settings for you.
> --
> Jeff Richards
> MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
> "Reggie D." <ReggieD.RemoveThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>> Bios was set at 'auto' but all ports shown as disabled.
>> I changed to manual and all ports were then enabled.
>>
>> Rebooted and mouse worked!!
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>> My grateful thx to you all you pro's..
>>
>> Reggie D.
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I had an Epson printer once and disliked it because of the ink monitor
software. I now use an HP printer which I have been satisfied with for a
while and use the Windows 2000 drivers on my 98 Second Edition machine and it
works fine in both 98 SE and in XP Professional since I have a dual-boot. I
never knew hardware would go ahead and change BIOS settings and that
certainly does not sound good. Thanks for letting us know.

"Jeff Richards" wrote:

> Thanks for letting us know you got it back. I wonder if the Epson
> installation changed the BIOS settings for you.
> --
> Jeff Richards
> MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
> "Reggie D." <ReggieD.DeleteThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> > Bios was set at 'auto' but all ports shown as disabled.
> > I changed to manual and all ports were then enabled.
> >
> > Rebooted and mouse worked!!
> >
> > My grateful thx to you all you pro's..
> >
> > Reggie D.
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"Dan" <Dan.DeleteThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I had an Epson printer once and disliked it because of the ink monitor
> software. I now use an HP printer which I have been satisfied with for a
> while and use the Windows 2000 drivers on my 98 Second Edition machine and
it
> works fine in both 98 SE and in XP Professional since I have a dual-boot.
I
> never knew hardware would go ahead and change BIOS settings and that
> certainly does not sound good. Thanks for letting us know.
>

Though I personally have not had problems with Epson printers...
I know the bios setting can change...
probably is the bios is set to plug&play.

At one time I had made quite a few hardware changes,
so I cloned my main drive and tested it.

My hardware changes turned out to be unusable
so I put the original H/W back but could not get that configuration
going...
so I popped in the cloned drive and still had the problem

only then did I think to look in the bios and saw that settings had changed!


> "Jeff Richards" wrote:
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> > Thanks for letting us know you got it back. I wonder if the Epson
> > installation changed the BIOS settings for you.
> > --
> > Jeff Richards
> > MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
> > "Reggie D." <ReggieD.DeleteThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:2AD5EEB6-C1E3-47B4-879F-8EFEB912332D@microsoft.com...
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> > >
> > > Bios was set at 'auto' but all ports shown as disabled.
> > > I changed to manual and all ports were then enabled.
> > >
> > > Rebooted and mouse worked!!
> > >
> > > My grateful thx to you all you pro's..
> > >
> > > Reggie D.
> >
> >
> >