Hooking up a PS/2 wheel mouse to an AT Mb w/9pin->PS/2 adapter

[Frego]

I have an AT Motherboard. It is a pentium, but it has the old style 5pin DIN for the keyboard and the 9pin serial for the mouse. I bought adapters to convert the PS/2 keyboard and mouse to these old connectors. The keyboard works fine, but WIN98 will not recognize the mouse. I am wondering if the pinouts are proprietary or what?? Also is there a card that can be installed in either an ISA or PCI slot that will then give me the needed PS/2 ports? Do you know where I can get such a thing?

Thanks in Advance!!

[spigidygak]

What kind of mouse is it? It's probably the mouse. Some mouses don't support the serial conversion route.

[Frego]

The mouse is a Microsoft Wheel Mouse - the manual says it's supposed to work with both PS/2 and 9 pin serial (with adapter).

I tried two dif't adapters thinking that was what was bad. Still wouldn't work. Finally out of desperation to get this back to the customer, I went down to Best Buy and bought a PCI USB Card for $30 http://www.gotapex.com/ubb/frown.gif and a USB mouse for $20 http://www.gotapex.com/ubb/frown.gif Got the damn thing to work, but if their are any alternatives to this I could always return that so I can get some profit out of this machine...

You see she had the wheel mouse, I told her that it would work with the motherboard I replaced in her machine. Then it didn't work. And I can't find any 9pin mice these days... Any thoughts anyone?

TIA!

[spigidygak]

Actually the microsoft wheel mouse ps/2 does not support an adapter to serial rs-232. BTW, you mentioned this is for a customer? Well just wanted to tell you that, the usb mouse is going to work only in windows. It will not work under dos or safe mode.

[This message has been edited by spigidygak (edited 08-03-2000).]

[Frego]

I'm going in through the DB-9 serial port not the 232. And the manual and box for the MS wheel mouse says it supports it, though it doesn't include the adapter. (even shows a picture of how to plug the PS/2 mouse into the PS/2->DB9F adapter)

I knew the USB mouse wouldn't work with Win95, but I didn't know it wouldn't work in safe mode!

[spigidygak]

Look for the db-9 driver at ms's page, that's probably your problem then, or hell the win98 disk probably has the driver.