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From: fredex@cg-atla.UUCP (Fred Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Microsoft Mouse Installation
Message-ID: <8209@cg-atla.UUCP>
Date: 29 Dec 89 14:43:36 GMT
References: <1422@ucf-cs.UCF.EDU>
Reply-To: fredex@cg-atla.UUCP (Fred Smith)
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In article <1422@ucf-cs.UCF.EDU> wordproc@ucf-cs.UCF.EDU (wordproc) writes:
>
>Has anyone tried using the Microsoft InPort Mouse with an AT running MSDOS 4.01?
>
>I'm trying to do so and the machine does not seem to like it.  The machine
>is a PC BRAND 286/20 running MSDOS 4.01.  The mouse's card is plugged into
>one of the two eight-bit slots on the backplane, with the I/O board occupying
>the other.  There was no documentation supplied with the mouse except the
>warranty notice.  The mouse did come with a single driver disk.
>                                            _________             /
>              Marcus Clenney   ___    ___  /___  ___/ ________   / 



I assume that you must have bought a USED mouse fromsomeone who did not
provide you wish all the documentation that comes with the MS mouse.
The manual that comes with it tells you how to figure out how to configure
all the various jumpers on the in-port board. This configuration depends
on whether you have an ATor an XT and what other various peripherals are
in the system. I think it is likely that you simply need to find the
correct documentation for the inport board and set the jumpers properly.

The jumper for XT-slot-8 is not for an AT with 8-bit slots, but rather for
slot number 8 in a genuine IBM XT. One of the signals in that slot is different
than in all the other slots in an XT. (It so happens that in my XT clone that
the inport board works in slot 8 just fine WITHOUT setting that jumper to the
special slot-8 position.)


If you cannot find the doc, send me mail and I can reproduce on-line the
pertinent parts of the manual for you and mail it back.

Fred

fredex@cg-atla.agfa.com