Mouse not working. Help please

vinylmusic

I have been given a computer
A Dell Plll
The PS/2 mouse was not working so I tried a P&P USB mouse instead.
No luck there.
I went into control panel/system/add new hardware and tried to get it to detect it. No luck there.
I tried to install drivers and followed the onscreen request for my WIN 98 SE disc and it didnt pick anything up.
I tried a manual search choosing differend driver files
It seems the WIN 98 install disc is useless. It never picks up the right drivers, even for other items such as soundcards, graphics cards, etc.
Can anyone advise how I can install the mouse?
What am I doing wrong?

It cant be the PS/2 port because it wont take USB either
Its not the mouse because I tried others that I know are working
thanks

Amalea

Have you checked that the mouse is compatible with windows 98? It might be its specific drivers are not compatible.
You say you were given the PC-did the person giving it to you state that it was in a decent working order? P3's are quite old now.

albertross_2

does it work in safe mode (f8 at boot).

vinylmusic

Amalea wrote:

Have you checked that the mouse is compatible with windows 98? It might be its specific drivers are not compatible.
You say you were given the PC-did the person giving it to you state that it was in a decent working order? P3's are quite old now.

Yes she said it was working fine.
I can see that for myself since I have done everything so far via the tab and pointer keys
The mouse just stopped working on her

vinylmusic

albertross wrote:

does it work in safe mode (f8 at boot).

I tried several times with F8 and also holding down the Ctrl key
Its not having it. I cant persuade it to go into safe mode at all

Toxteth_OGrady

vinylmusic wrote:

I cant persuade it to go into safe mode at all

Open msconfig, go to the boot.ini tab and check /safeboot then restart.

:cool:

TOG

vinylmusic

Toxteth_OGrady wrote:

Open msconfig, go to the boot.ini tab and check /safeboot then restart.

:cool:

TOG

Thanks, but theres no boot ini tab, only general, Config sys, Autoexec bat, system ini, win ini and Startup
None of those offer a safeboot option

Toxteth_OGrady

:eek: Ooops, my bad! Wrong OS.

Correct method for msconfig in W98 here.!!

:cool:

TOG

Rex_Mundi

To restart W98 in safe mode. Restart your computer and keep hitting the ctrl key before windows loads. You'll get a new start up menu......

1. Normal
2. Logged (\BOOTLOG.TXT)
3. Safe mode
4. Step-by-step confirmation
5. Command prompt oly
6. Safe mode command prompt only
7. Previous version of MS-DOS

vinylmusic

Rex_Mundi wrote:

To restart W98 in safe mode. Restart your computer and keep hitting the ctrl key before windows loads. You'll get a new start up menu......

1. Normal
2. Logged (\BOOTLOG.TXT)
3. Safe mode
4. Step-by-step confirmation
5. Command prompt oly
6. Safe mode command prompt only
7. Previous version of MS-DOS

Thanks, but that didnt work either

vinylmusic

Toxteth_OGrady wrote:

:eek: Ooops, my bad! Wrong OS.

Correct method for msconfig in W98 here.!!

:cool:

TOG

Thanks for that
I got into safe mode.
So now I have discovered that my mouse doesnt work in safe mode