Mouse and laptops

bushmins · 11 Jun 2008 at 09:31

I have two laptops both with xp sp3 installed. I cant seem to get a normal mouse to work when i plug it into the USB. Any ideas why they dont work?

fish99 · 11 Jun 2008 at 09:55

Could have a look if there's a legacy USB option in the laptops BIOS, or there's usually settings to do with whether USB mice are supported via BIOS or the OS, could try changing that.

I assume you've ruled out the obvious stuff - broken USB port, broken mouse? How about USB drivers maybe? Any hardware in device manager with an exclamation (!) mark next to it?

bushmins · 11 Jun 2008 at 12:04

Tested mouse and USB, all is working as it should.

There are no option in bios as far as i can see. There is the 'plug in and play' which is set to 'yes'

There is a ! against 'other devices' IEEE 1394 controller, but googling it doesnt really seem to help.

This is a normal PS mouse connected via a usb dongle.

bushmins · 11 Jun 2008 at 18:15

Maybe if i reinstall xp with the mouse plugged in?

Tesla · 11 Jun 2008 at 18:26

Do you have a native USB mouse you can try?

bushmins · 11 Jun 2008 at 19:38

Tesla said:
Do you have a native USB mouse you can try?

No, but i think that should be my next test. I can pick one up from tesco cheap.

bushmins · 12 Jun 2008 at 17:58

Got native USB mouse and it works fine.

Marvilious. Now i can play Baldurs gate.