Re: PS/2 mouse won't work with A8N-SLI deluxe w/ Ghost or Partition Magic

On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:55:34 GMT, crystaldaggerNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxx
wrote:

On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:22:39 GMT, john.dsl@xxxxxxxxxxx (John Lewis)
wrote:


I tried 2 different PS/2 mice. No joy. I can load a standard mouse
driver fine, have it detect the mouse and it'll be working
effectively, but it's when the Norton Ghost interface under PC-DOS
first appears that the mouse will freeze. It works for about 2
seconds before locking up, however. Same with Partition Magic. I'm
thinking it's a quirk with my IDE configuration (still using 3 IDE
HDDs & one optical drive on the A8N-SLI IDE controllers, no SATA) and
one the disks are accessed & checked through these PC DOS Disk cloning
or partitioning programs, it causes a lock up.


joe


Try disconnecting all hard-drives except your boot one and see if the
mouse problem still shows up. Also use the OS disk-check program to
verify that your boot partition (C:) has no errors.

John Lewis

I did this. No dice. Even disconnected by IDE boot drive and all USB
devices and STILL my PS/2 mouse will freeze just after the Norton
Ghost splash screen appears in PC DOS. I'm thinking there's some
conflict in BIOS now, some IRQ out of order. I tried an old serial
port TouchPad (which I hate) plugged into Com1 which works fine with
Ghost with a standard mouse driver. I'm tired of chasing my tail over
this. It's not a crucial issue, but is damn irksome that my PS/2
mouse will NOT work with Norton Ghost or Partition Magic under PC DOS.
We all want our systems to run perfect but I think I've been obsessive
enough about this. Maybe it's just a bad PS/2 port?


What are you booting into DOS/running the utility from? Backup boot-
floppies created by PM or NG ? You should not be using anything else.
If you are using floppies, one of them might be corrupted.

John Lewis

Thanks for the all the help here. Over & out.

joe

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