Frozen Mouse

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1st thing to check is to make sure that the modem and the serial mouse are
not sharing the same IRQ. While IRQ sharing for serial devices is possible,
it is not recommended when a mouse and a modem are involved.

Here are the preferred settings for the 4 possible serial ports

COM1/IRQ4, hex 3f8
COM2/IRQ 3, hex 2f8
COM3/IRQ 4, hex 3e8
COM4/IRQ 3, hex 2e8

Make sure one device is on IRQ4, and the other on IRQ3. BTW, on a laptop
you may have an IRdA device configured as a serial modem -- make sure it is
disabled in BIOS.

Some old sound cards or (God forbid) the Microsoft Speaker Driver/Soundcard
Emulator for Win31 used to mess with the mouse as well -- same reasons as
above.

<campton@pd.jaring.nospam.my> wrote in message
news:6uddc05su4qt3sf9kaanhkc1266vegm50h@4ax.com...
> I have a very old Laptop that runs Win95 (barely). I take it on trips
> to read some old files, play solitaire, look at photos etc. Absolutely
> no Internet or downloading of new files. When it can no longer fill
> the above functions it will see the dumpster.
>
> My problem is that almost whenever I move the mouse I get the little
> hour glass that presumably indicates the machine is doing some
> thinking. Very often, if I move the mouse while the hour glass is
> showing then the mouse freezes and it seems my only option is to
> reboot the machine.
>
> I have changed mice a few times and therefore I am convinced that is
> not the porblem.
>
> Cam anyone sugges anything that might help?
>
>
> Thanks