Unwamted mouse

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Sometimes on reboot I get the 'found new hardware' message & my PC tries to
install a 'Microsoft serial mouse' that I do not have, it sometimes crashes
my PC, any ideas?,
Phil
 
Phil said:
Sometimes on reboot I get the 'found new hardware' message & my PC tries to
install a 'Microsoft serial mouse' that I do not have, it sometimes crashes
my PC, any ideas?,
Phil
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Do you have any device attached to your serial port?

If not, try disabling your serial port in the bios
 
Phil said:
Sometimes on reboot I get the 'found new hardware' message & my PC tries to
install a 'Microsoft serial mouse' that I do not have, it sometimes crashes
my PC, any ideas?,
Phil
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What do you have connected to the PC's serial port that is being
mis-identified as a mouse? Have you placed the No SerialMouse option
command in your boot.ini file to prevent WinXP from detecting it as a mouse?

Boot INI Options Reference
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/information/bootini.mspx

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Bruce Chambers said:
What do you have connected to the PC's serial port that is being
mis-identified as a mouse? Have you placed the No SerialMouse option
command in your boot.ini file to prevent WinXP from detecting it as a
mouse?

Boot INI Options Reference
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/information/bootini.mspx

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Bruce Chambers

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They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -Benjamin Franklin

Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. -Bertrand
Russell
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I've done a spot of googling the problem & tried adding
'/fastdetect:com1,com2' to boot.in, I think /noserialmice applies to earlier
versions of Windows, I have XP Home.
As a matter of interest I have only got usb mouse,usb keyboard,usb printer,
& a monitor connected, although I have a wireless network adapter on pci , I
don't think I'm using any serial ports.
I'll see how it goes, I can try NoSerialMice option or skipenumerations in
regedit if it doesn't work this way.
Phil.
 
If your PS/2 ports are active(not disabled in BIOS), Windows will still try to install them. I have
a USB mouse but if I go to Device Manager and select to show hidden devices there is an entry for a
PS/2 mouse that is not present because the port is active.
 
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